The editor of "The Mail on Sunday", Geordie Greig, was appointed to succeed Dacre the following day. Greig's appointment was reported as being a way of "detoxifying" the paper, and there was speculation its support for leaving the European Union might be toned down. Dacre wrote the following week's "Diary" column for "The Spectator" in which he insisted: "Support for Brexit is in the DNA of both the "Daily Mail" and, more pertinently, its readers. Any move to reverse this would be editorial and commercial suicide".