Johnson, a former journalist who once worked for the pro-Tory Daily Telegraph and edited The Spectator, a less confrontational Mail would be one less headache at a time when his poll ratings have eroded in the glare of a lingering corruption scandal involving Conservative members of Parliament. “His Mail had recently been sharply critical of Boris Johnson and his government, causing some alarm in the current government and its ranks of MPs.”įor Mr. “Geordie Greig was, personally, a Remainer and didn’t see politics through that one lens,” said Alan Rusbridger, a former editor of the left-leaning Guardian. More so than any other British newspaper, The Mail is the voice of what sociologists call Middle England, a broad section of middle-class readers, predominantly white and socially conservative, most of whom live outside London and generally favor Brexit. What makes the upheaval at The Mail reverberate beyond the insular world of Fleet Street is the central role it plays in British politics and society. But in some ways, it merely signified a return to form for a right-leaning, middlebrow paper that staunchly supports the Conservative Party and led the charge for Brexit over the past two decades. Greig was abruptly ousted last week in an internal power struggle, it caught both him and London’s media class off guard, setting off a round of lip-smacking gossip worthy of a tabloid headline. Greig is a suave, aristocratic fellow once described by The Observer as “Britain’s best-connected man.” He also opposed Brexit. Naipaul and the painter Lucian Freud, Mr. Educated at Eton and Oxford a former editor of the society magazine Tatler and a friend of the writer V.S. 'Nikki would never give up on us ever.LONDON - Geordie Greig was always an odd fit as the editor of The Daily Mail, Britain’s biggest tabloid. The cost of loving crisis: Romantic couples face having to shell out 15% more on flowers and gifts for loved ones this Valentine's Day as inflation bites Will they try to ban Heaven next because it's too elitist? As the Church of England considers making God gender-neutral, an appalled STEPHEN GLOVER says the Anglican hierarchy is a cult disconnected from the real world
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