<P> A survey in 2014 found the average age of its reader was 58, and it had the lowest demographic for 15 - to 44 - year - olds among the major British dailies . Uniquely for a British daily newspaper, it has a majority female readership with women making up 52 - 55% of its readers . It had an average daily circulation of 1,510,824 copies in November 2016 . Between July and December 2013 it had an average daily readership of approximately 3.951 million, of whom approximately 2.503 million were in the ABC1 demographic and 1.448 million in the C2DE demographic . Its website has more than 100 million unique visitors per month . </P> <P> The Daily Mail has been accused of printing sensationalist and inaccurate scare stories of science and medical research and of copyright violations . </P> <P> The Mail was originally a broadsheet but switched to a compact format on 3 May 1971, the 75th anniversary of its founding . On this date it also absorbed the Daily Sketch, which had been published as a tabloid by the same company . The publisher of the Mail, the Daily Mail and General Trust, is currently a FTSE 250 company . The paper has a circulation of around two million, which is the fourth largest circulation of any English - language daily newspaper in the world . </P> <P> Circulation figures according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations in March 2014 show gross daily sales of 1,708,006 for the Daily Mail . According to a December 2004 survey, 53% of Daily Mail readers voted for the Conservative Party, compared to 21% for Labour and 17% for the Liberal Democrats . The main concern of Viscount Rothermere, the current chairman and main shareholder, is that the circulation be maintained . He testified before a House of Lords select committee that "we need to allow editors the freedom to edit", and therefore the newspaper's editor was free to decide editorial policy, including its political allegiance . The Mail has been edited by Paul Dacre since 1992 . </P>

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