Daily Express complains to regulator after Evolve Politics dubbed it an 'anti-immigrant' newspaper

The Daily Express has complained to alternative press regulator Impress about an Evolve Politics article which dubbed it an “anti-immigrant� newspaper.

Impress, which regulates left-wing political website Evolve Politics, confirmed today it has received a complaint from an editor at the Daily Express.

A spokesperson added it was making a “preliminary assessmentâ€� of an article published on 4 January which was headlined: “Daily Express accused of ‘whitening’ picture of Tory Home Secretary Sajid Javid for anti-immigrant storyâ€�.

Evolve editor-in-chief Tom D Rogers described the Daily Express as a “notoriously right-wing anti-immigrant newspaper� in the first sentence of the story.

The article reported that the Daily Express was accused of whitening a picture of Javid on its 3 January front page alongside a story about migrants crossing the English Channel.

Evolve claimed it was “a story which was gleefully reported by the notoriously anti-immigrant Daily Express”.

In a tweet, Evolve Politics said yesterday: “The editor of the Daily Express has made a formal complaint to Evolve about the fact that we called it an ‘anti-immigrant’ newspaper in an article last week.”

The tweet pictured a number of Daily Express front pages from 2016 with headlines such as “Migrant crisis will kill off EU�, “Britain faces migrant chaos� and “The Invaders: Sneaky migrants set up tents on French cliffs waiting for boats to smuggle them into Britain to join their mates�.

Speaking to Press Gazette last year Daily Express editor Gary Jones, who took the helm following Reach’s acquisition of Express Newspapers, said “there have been some changesâ€� of editorial choices since he took over.

“Immigration is an issue and one that is important to Express readers, but I don’t want the Daily Express to be offensive to anybody – not immigrants or any kind of religion,” he said.

“I want to be as inclusive as possible and that is something I want to personally bring to the Express.�

Jones added: “I’m not going to do a front page that isn’t reflective of the kind of society that I’d want to live in.�

Picture: Evolve Politics

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