The Daily Mail launches a sustained attack on Labour

By Tim Montgomerie
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There have been many occasions in recent times when the Daily Mail has given the Tories a good kicking. Craig Oliver will have been wearing a big smile when he opened the paper today, however...

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Equally, after bashing the Chancellor on repeated occasions last week's Sun (under a new Editor) also made George Osborne its hero of the week.

I don't say that Fleet Street's centre right papers have now 'returned home'. In an age when circulations are falling newspapers cannot be loyal to any one party. They must be more reader-focused. The change in mood will nonetheless be welcomed in Numbers 10 and 11.