the United Kingdom’s highest-circulated daily newspaper
According to a December 2004 survey, 53% of Daily Mail readers voted for the Conservative Party, compared to 21% for Labour and 17% for the Liberal Democrats
Following the November 2015 Paris attacks, a cartoon in the Daily Mail by Stanley McMurtry (“Mac”) linked the European migrant crisis (with a focus on Syria in particular) to the terrorist attacks, and criticised the European Union immigration laws for allowing Islamist radicals to gain easy access into the United Kingdom. Despite being compared to Nazi propaganda by The New York Times, and criticised as “reckless xenophobia,” and racist, the cartoon received praise on the Mail Online website
Most of the the readers are female, with women 52-55% being women
Had an average circulation of 1,134,184 copies in February 2020, but between April 2019 and March 2020 it had an average daily readership of around 2.180 million
The website has more than 218 million visitors per month
When the newspaper was first released it cost half a penny where other newspapers cost one penny, and it was more populist in tone and more concise in its coverage than its rivals
