

Political Leaning of The Guardian's AudienceĪccording to the 2014 Pew Research Study, Where News Audiences Fit on the Political Spectrum, the majority (72%) of The Guardian’s readers hold political values to the political left or left-of-center. A large majority of current readers vote for either the Labour or Liberal Democratic Parties, while the paper has traditionally endorsed one of those two parties during general elections. When The Independent was launched in 1986, it solidified its position as a centrist British newspaper alongside The Guardian on the left and the Times and Telegraph on the right. Meanwhile, its letters page was where the battle for the future direction of the Labour Party played out. By the 1970s and 1980s, a period of polarized politics in Great Britain, The Guardian’s opinion pages helped spawn the center-left SDP party. It maintained its role as the voice of the left despite facing several financial hurdles over the years. The Guardian was founded in 1821 to promote liberal interests during a turbulent time characterized by massive worker movements and growing anti-Corn Laws campaigns. History of The Guardian: Founded As Left-Wing Newspaper Its online edition was the fifth most widely read in the world as of October 2014, with over 42.6 million readers. The newspaper’s print edition has an average daily circulation of 189,000 copies, behind the Daily Telegraph and The Times, and ahead of The Independent. The paper publishes content on its UK online edition, as well as its two international web sites, Guardian Australia and Guardian US. The Guardian is a British national daily newspaper founded in reaction to the closure of a radical workers’ newspaper in 1821. Additional Information About The Guardian If we perform more bias reviews and gather consistent data, this confidence level will increase. Two bias reviews have affirmed this rating or multiple reviews have returned differing results. Confidence Level Confidence is determined by how many reviews have been applied and consistency of data.Īs of June 2023, AllSides has medium confidence in our Lean Left rating for The Guardian.
