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cial swing votes and whose wrath is best avoided. It's not the paper's conservative bent that bothers them -- in Britain, unlike the United States, newspapers are expected to have a strong political stance that comes through in news coverage as well as editorials. (Television stations, again in contrast to the U.S., are expected to remain broadly neutral).
• But many feel the Mail went too far when it angered Ed Miliband, leader of the left-of-center Labour Party, by running a story about Miliband's late father, a leading socialist intellectual, headlined "the man who hated Britain."
• The Mail warned readers that "Red Ed," who is Britain's main opposition leader

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