Revealed: Reform leader issues letter of complaint to ‘out of touch’ Mail group

Richard Tice is on a mission to crack down on ‘defamatory and libellous’ slurs against his party as the election draws closer.  First, the Reform UK leader forced the BBC to issue a correction and an apology for using news agency copy that labelled Tice’s party as ‘far right’.  Now, he’s got his sights set on DMG Media — the parent group of the MailOnline, the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.

After the BBC blunder, Tice warned publications that his lawyers ‘are also in touch with other news organisations who repeated the BBC line’ — including the MailOnline, which fell foul of the same mistake and is now reportedly issuing an apology to Reform UK. But DMG isn’t in the clear quite yet. The leader of the Farage-founded party has also flagged concerns about reporting by its weekly paper, the Mail on Sunday. 

The paper’s star political commentator Dan Hodges ruffled feathers after he referred to Reform as ‘a party not averse to aggressive campaigning on race and migration’ in his most recent Sunday column.