The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning
broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the
United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by
Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh in June 1855 as the
Daily Telegraph and Courier, and is the only remaining national broadsheet-only newspaper in the UK. Owned by
David and Frederick Barclay,
The Telegraph has the ninth largest daily UK
newspaper circulation[3] and is the country's "other
paper of record".
[4]In January 2009, the Telegraph was the highest selling British 'quality' paper, with a certified average daily circulation of 842,912. This compared with a circulation of 617,483 for The Times, 358,844 for The Guardian, and 215,504 for The Independent.[5] According to a MORI survey conducted in 2005, 64% of Telegraph readers intended to support the Conservative Party in the coming elections.[6]
Levy then appointed his son, Edward Levy-Lawson, and Thornton Leigh Hunt to edit the newspaper and relaunched it as The Daily Telegraph, with the slogan "the largest, best, and cheapest newspaper in the world".[8] Hunt laid out the newspaper's principles in a memorandum sent to Levy "We should report all striking events in science, so told that the intelligent public can understand what has happened and can see its bearing on our daily life and our future. The same principle should apply to all other events - to fashion, to new inventions, to new methods of conducting business".[9]
In 1908, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany gave a controversial interview to The Daily Telegraph that severely damaged Anglo-German relations and added to international tensions which eventually culminated in World War I.[10]
