AHC: Left-wing Daily Mail

As most people familiar with the media of the United Kingdom are aware, the Daily Mail has a strong (and not unjust) reputation as a very right-wing paper.
The challenge is to change this so that the Daily Mail has a reputation as an extremely left leaning/socialist paper by 2010.
I've put this in the before 1900 section ease as the paper was founded in 1896 but it may include post 1900 POD's.
More bonus points for the more recent the POD :)
 
As most people familiar with the media of the United Kingdom are aware, the Daily Mail has a strong (and not unjust) reputation as a very right-wing paper.
The challenge is to change this so that the Daily Mail has a reputation as an extremely left leaning/socialist paper by 2010.
I've put this in the before 1900 section ease as the paper was founded in 1896 but it may include post 1900 POD's.
More bonus points for the more recent the POD :)
The Manchester Guardian changes its name to "The Daily Mail"?
 
As most people familiar with the media of the United Kingdom are aware, the Daily Mail has a strong (and not unjust) reputation as a very right-wing paper.
The challenge is to change this so that the Daily Mail has a reputation as an extremely left leaning/socialist paper by 2010.
I've put this in the before 1900 section ease as the paper was founded in 1896 but it may include post 1900 POD's.
More bonus points for the more recent the POD :)

Positively Indecent

A few possible but rather unlikely options:
a) Some very wealthy person of radical views [or possibly subtle working by a foreign power] purchases the paper and totally changes it's policies. Will very likely quickly fold but might cause a few thousand heart attacks amongst the former readerships. Most will however probably just move to the Torygraph or some other right wing paper.
b) The government becomes so right wing that the Mail, without changing it's policies and stance, is the most left wing paper allowed. :eek::eek::eek: [That is NOT a TL I would want to touch with a barge-pole!]
c) If you exclude the socialist part of the OP you might get something where it becomes left-wing libertarian possibly because the government becomes very interventionist against rather in support of the sort of vested interest it supports nowadays.

Steve
 

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The Mirror started out as a stablemate of the Mail and is now left-wing, so it could just have happened the other way around.
 
The Daily Mail mergered with or at least bought over a number of other papers including the Daily Sketch and the News Chronicle (I think). The latter was a Liberal paper, possibly akin to the Guardian? The Daily Sketch is rather similar to the modern day Mail. Possibly if the News Chronicle somehow buys over the Daily Mail rather than vice versa - maybe the Daily Express really squeezes the Mail out of the right wing middle market audience? Admittedly a bit difficult as after the Mirror the Express was the most read newspaper in 1940s and 50s Britain. This might also have interesting consequences in terms of the Sketch surviving, and I have to admit that I don't really know an awful lot about that particular publication.

Either way it seems to me that the Express would have a greater chance of remaining the largest 'middle market' paper as it was under Beaverbrook rather than declining into the rather sad and uninfluential state it is today.
 
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