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Is the Daily Mail left or right?

Right of centre. We place the Daily Mail at +7 on a scale from −10 (left) to +10 (right), among the furthest right of the 15 outlets we read.

Left −10CentreRight +10

What it actually covers

The share of the Daily Mail’s politics stories touching each subject, divided by the share across every masthead we read. 2.0× means twice the attention the press as a whole gave it.

Measured across 360 stories over 30 days, 2026-08-29 to 2026-10-02.

Covered more than the press average

  • NHS & health2.6×

    31 stories · 9% of its output, against 3% across the press

  • Immigration & asylum1.8×

    48 stories · 13% of its output, against 7% across the press

  • Kemi Badenoch1.8×

    47 stories · 13% of its output, against 7% across the press

  • The Conservatives1.8×

    47 stories · 13% of its output, against 7% across the press

  • Defence & foreign policy1.4×

    25 stories · 7% of its output, against 5% across the press

  • Andy Burnham1.4×

    194 stories · 54% of its output, against 38% across the press

Covered less than the press average

  • Iran0.5×

    4 stories · 1% of its output, against 2% across the press

What the Daily Mail is running now

Every masthead we read

All of them, on one scale

One email each morning

See the split every morning

The day's stories as the left and the right each told them, in one email before breakfast.

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