Daily Mail fact checking, sensationalism, and flat-out fabrication". The independent Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC News), in its April 2017 assessment of the newspaper, wrote: "Has a strong conservative bias and has a poor track record with fact checkers" and rated it as right bias, with factual reporting "mixed", but did not reduce it to the questionable sources/fake news category. "Up and Running" is a strip distributed by Knight Features and "Fred Basset" has followed the life of the dog of the same name in a two-part strip in the "Daily Mail" since 8 July 1963. The long-running "Teddy Tail" cartoon strip, was
Daily Mail 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 (DMGT), is listed on the London Stock Exchange. Circulation figures according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations in November 2017 show gross daily sales of 1,383,932 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.