Daily Mirror

Is the Daily Mirror left or right?

Left of centre. We place the Daily Mirror at -6 on a scale from −10 (left) to +10 (right), among the furthest left of the 15 outlets we read.

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What it actually covers

The share of the Daily Mirror’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 359 stories over 30 days, 2026-08-29 to 2026-10-02.

Covered more than the press average

NHS & health1.5×
18 stories · 5% of its output, against 3% across the press
Nigel Farage1.2×
73 stories · 20% of its output, against 16% across the press
Reform UK1.2×
73 stories · 20% of its output, against 16% across the press

Covered less than the press average

Zack Polanski0.3×
3 stories · 1% of its output, against 3% across the press
The Greens0.3×
3 stories · 1% of its output, against 3% across the press
Iran0.5×
4 stories · 1% of its output, against 2% across the press

What the Daily Mirror 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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