The Daily Telegraph

== Criticisms ==
{{Criticism section|date=October 2020}}

=== Accusation of news coverage influence by advertisers ===

In July 2014, the ''Daily Telegraph'' was criticised for carrying links on its website to pro-Kremlin articles supplied by a Russian state-funded publication that downplayed any Russian involvement in the downing of the passenger jet [[Malaysia Airlines Flight 17]].<ref>Spence, Alex (22 July 2014). [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4153902.ece "Telegraph and TV channel criticised over crash reports"], ''The Times''. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006180446/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4153902.ece |date=6 October 2014 }}. Retrieved 7 October 2014</ref> These had featured on its website as part of a commercial deal, but were later removed.<ref>Spence, Alex (20 July 2014). [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/medianews/article4161591.ece "Telegraph spikes 'Russian propaganda{{'"}}], ''The Times''. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011111534/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/medianews/article4161591.ece |date=11 October 2014 }}. Retrieved 7 October 2014.</ref>

As of 2014,{{update inline|date=November 2023}} the paper was paid £900,000 a year to include the supplement ''[[Russia Beyond the Headlines]]'', a publication sponsored by the {{lang|ru-latn|[[Rossiyskaya Gazeta]]}}, the Russian government's official newspaper.<ref>''Private Eye'' No. 1374, "Street of Shame", 5–18 September 2014, pg. 6.</ref>

In February 2015, the chief political commentator of the ''Daily Telegraph'', [[Peter Oborne]], resigned. Oborne accused the paper of a "form of fraud on its readers"<ref name="OpenDemocracy 17 February 2015">{{cite web | title= Why I have resigned from the Telegraph | url= https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/peter-oborne/why-i-have-resigned-from-telegraph | author= Peter Oborne | date= 17 February 2015 | website= Open Democracy | access-date= 16 April 2020 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160210130853/https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/peter-oborne/why-i-have-resigned-from-telegraph | archive-date= 10 February 2016 | url-status= live }}</ref> for its coverage of the bank [[HSBC]] in relation to a Swiss tax-dodging scandal that was widely covered by other news media. He alleged that editorial decisions about news content had been heavily influenced by the advertising arm of the newspaper because of commercial interests.<ref name="BBC News 17 February 2015">{{cite web | title= Daily Telegraph's Peter Oborne resigns over HSBC coverage | url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31510152 | author= <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> | date= 17 February 2015 | work= BBC News | access-date= 18 February 2015 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150218051845/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31510152 | archive-date= 18 February 2015 | url-status= live }}</ref> [[Jay Rosen]] at [[New York University]] stated that Oborne's resignation statement was "one of the most important things a journalist has written about journalism lately".<ref name="BBC News 17 February 2015" />

Oborne cited other instances of advertising strategy influencing the content of articles, linking the refusal to take an editorial stance on the repression of democratic demonstrations in Hong Kong to the ''Telegraph''{{'s}} support from China. Additionally, he said that favourable reviews of the [[Cunard]] cruise liner ''[[RMS Queen Mary 2|Queen Mary II]]'' appeared in the ''Telegraph'', noting: "On 10 May last year ''The Telegraph'' ran a long feature on Cunard's Queen Mary II liner on the news review page. This episode looked to many like a plug for an advertiser on a page normally dedicated to serious news analysis. I again checked and certainly ''Telegraph'' competitors did not view Cunard's liner as a major news story. Cunard is an important ''Telegraph'' advertiser."<ref name="OpenDemocracy 17 February 2015" />

In response, the ''Telegraph'' called Oborne's statement an "astonishing and unfounded attack, full of inaccuracy and innuendo".<ref name="BBC News 17 February 2015" /> Later that month, ''Telegraph'' editor Chris Evans invited journalists at the newspaper to contribute their thoughts on the issue.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Ponsford|first=Dominic|date=28 February 2015|title=Telegraph editor Chris Evans invites staff to contribute ideas on new editorial/commercial guidelines|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/telegraph-editor-chris-evans-invites-staff-contribute-ideas-new-editorialcommercial-guidelines/|access-date=18 March 2021|website=Press Gazette|language=en-US|archive-date=9 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509221621/https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/telegraph-editor-chris-evans-invites-staff-contribute-ideas-new-editorialcommercial-guidelines/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Press Gazette]]'' reported later in 2015 that Oborne had joined the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' tabloid newspaper and ''The Telegraph'' had "issued new guidelines over the way editorial and commercial staff work together".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Turvill|first=William|date=30 June 2015|title=Four months on from Telegraph resignation, Peter Oborne moves back to Daily Mail|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/four-months-telegraph-resignation-peter-oborne-announces-daily-mail-move/|access-date=18 March 2021|website=Press Gazette|language=en-US|archive-date=9 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509154451/https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/four-months-telegraph-resignation-peter-oborne-announces-daily-mail-move/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In January 2017, the Telegraph Media Group had a higher number of upheld complaints than any other UK newspaper by its regulator [[Independent Press Standards Organisation|IPSO]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/|title=Rulings and regulation statements|publisher=IPSO|access-date=19 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201094545/https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/|archive-date=1 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> Most of these findings pertained to inaccuracy, as with other UK newspapers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/telegraph-tops-ipso-naughty-list-with-nine-upheld-complaints-followed-by-the-times-and-daily-express/|title=Daily Telegraph tops IPSO naughty list with nine upheld complaints followed by The Times and Daily Express|last=Mayhew|first=Freddy|date=19 September 2016|work=Press Gazette|access-date=19 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220091952/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/telegraph-tops-ipso-naughty-list-with-nine-upheld-complaints-followed-by-the-times-and-daily-express/|archive-date=20 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

In October 2017, a number of major western news organisations whose coverage had irked Beijing were excluded from [[Xi Jinping]]'s speech event launching a new politburo. However, the ''Daily Telegraph'' had been granted an invitation to the event.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Phillips|first1=Tom|title=Protest after Western media 'troublemakers' barred from Xi Jinping speech|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/25/protest-after-western-media-troublemakers-barred-from-xi-jinping-speech|access-date=9 April 2018|work=The Guardian|date=25 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180408224745/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/25/protest-after-western-media-troublemakers-barred-from-xi-jinping-speech|archive-date=8 April 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

In April 2019, ''[[Business Insider]]'' reported ''The Telegraph'' had partnered with [[Facebook]] to publish articles "downplaying 'technofears' and praising the company".<ref>{{cite news|date=3 April 2019|title=Facebook is partnering with a big UK newspaper to publish sponsored articles downplaying 'technofears' and praising the company|work=Business Insider|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-daily-telegraph-positive-sponsored-news-stories-2019-4|url-status=live|access-date=3 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403221601/https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-daily-telegraph-positive-sponsored-news-stories-2019-4|archive-date=3 April 2019}}</ref>

=== Premature obituaries ===

The paper published [[List of premature obituaries|premature obituaries]] for Cockie Hoogterp,{{when|date=November 2023}} the second wife of [[Bror von Blixen-Finecke|Baron Blixen]],<ref name=McKie>McKie, Andrew (30 August 2001). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1338899/The-day-I-managed-to-kill-off-Tex-Ritters-wife.html "The day I managed to 'kill off' Tex Ritter's wife"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705123717/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1338899/The-day-I-managed-to-kill-off-Tex-Ritters-wife.html |date=5 July 2018 }}. ''The Daily Telegraph'' (London).</ref> [[Dave Swarbrick]] in 1999,<ref name=McKie /> and [[Dorothy Fay|Dorothy Southworth Ritter]], the widow of [[Tex Ritter]] and mother of [[John Ritter]], in August 2001.<ref name=McKie />

=== Accusation of antisemitism ===
Editors for both the ''Daily Telegraph'' and the ''[[Sunday Telegraph]]'' have been criticised by ''Guardian'' columnist [[Owen Jones]] for publishing and authoring articles which espouse [[Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory|an antisemitic conspiracy theory]].<ref name="Jones 2019">{{cite news|last=Jones|first=Owen|date=28 March 2019|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/28/media-far-right-radicalisation-politics-hatred|title=Why we need to talk about the media's role in far-right radicalisation|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=7 November 2020|archive-date=5 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505105338/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/28/media-far-right-radicalisation-politics-hatred|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2018, [[Allister Heath]], the editor of the ''[[Sunday Telegraph]]'' wrote that "Cultural Marxism is running rampant."<ref name ="Heath 2018">{{cite news |first=Allister |last=Heath |authorlink=Allister Heath |title=Liberal democracy is dying as the world converges on authoritarian beigeness |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/06/13/liberal-democracy-dying-world-converges-authoritarian-beigeness/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/06/13/liberal-democracy-dying-world-converges-authoritarian-beigeness/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=Sunday Telegraph |date=13 June 2018 |accessdate=14 June 2021 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> Assistant comment editor of the ''Daily Telegraph'', [[Sherelle Jacobs]], also used the term in 2019.<ref name="Jacobs 2019">{{cite news |first=Sherelle |last=Jacobs |authorlink=Sherelle Jacobs |title=There's only one way to win a culture war against the metropolitan elite|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/27/one-way-win-culture-war-against-metropolitan-snobs/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/27/one-way-win-culture-war-against-metropolitan-snobs/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=Daily Telegraph |date=27 February 2019 |accessdate=14 June 2021 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> ''The Daily Telegraph'' also published an anonymous civil servant who stated: "There is a strong presence of Anglophobia, combined with cultural Marxism that runs through the civil service."<ref name="Anon 2019">{{cite news |title=Believe me, the Civil Service is trying to sink Brexit. I have seen it from the inside |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/03/18/believe-civil-service-trying-sink-brexit-have-seen-inside/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/03/18/believe-civil-service-trying-sink-brexit-have-seen-inside/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=Daily Telegraph |date=18 March 2019 |accessdate=14 June 2021 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>

=== False allegations of Islamic extremism ===

In January 2019, the paper published an article written by [[Camilla Tominey]] titled "Police called in after Scout group run from mosque is linked to Islamic extremist and Holocaust denier"<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/18/police-called-scout-group-run-mosque-linked-islamic-extremist/|title=Police called in after Scout group run from mosque is linked to Islamic extremist and Holocaust denier|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=19 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119100131/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/18/police-called-scout-group-run-mosque-linked-islamic-extremist/|access-date=8 April 2020|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 January 2019}}</ref> in which it was reported that the police were investigating Ahammed Hussain, the Leader of the Scout Group at the Lewisham Islamic Centre, because he had links to extremist Muslim groups that promoted terrorism and antisemitism.

In January 2020, the paper issued an official apology and accepted that the article contained many falsehoods, and that Hussain had never supported or promoted terrorism, or been antisemitic. The paper paid Hussain damages and costs.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/28/apology-mr-ahammed-hussain/|title=An apology – Mr Ahammed Hussain|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=28 January 2020|access-date=8 April 2020|via=www.telegraph.co.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301095145/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/28/apology-mr-ahammed-hussain/|archive-date=1 March 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> In a letter sent to Hussain's lawyers accompanying the text of their published apology, the newspaper's lawyers wrote: "The article was published by our client following receipt of information in good faith from the Scout Association and the [[Henry Jackson Society]]; nevertheless our client now accepts that the article (using that expression to refer to both print and online versions) is defamatory of your client and will apologise to him for publishing it."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rllaw.co.uk/apologies-as-published/|title=Apologies as Published - Rahman Lowe|date=29 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329101227/http://www.rllaw.co.uk/apologies-as-published/|archive-date=29 March 2020}}</ref>

=== China Watch ===
In 2016, the [[Hong Kong Free Press]] reported that ''The Daily Telegraph'' was receiving £750,000 annually to carry a supplement called 'China Watch' as part of a commercial deal with Chinese state-run newspaper ''[[China Daily]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hongkongfp.com/2016/04/03/china-spends-big-on-propaganda-in-britain-but-returns-are-low/|title=China spends big on propaganda in Britain... but returns are low|date=3 April 2016|website=Hong Kong Free Press HKFP|language=en-GB|access-date=9 April 2020}}</ref> ''The Telegraph'' published the supplement once a month in print, and published it online at least until March 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/peoples-daily-online/opinion/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200329145908/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/peoples-daily-online/opinion/|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 March 2020|title=People's Daily Online: Opinion|date=29 March 2020|website=archive.vn|access-date=9 April 2020}}</ref> As of April 2020, ''The Telegraph'' appeared to have removed China Watch from its website, along with another advertisement feature section by a Chinese state-run media outlet titled "People's Daily Online". This followed the People's Daily Online section carrying misinformation about [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]], including claims that traditional Chinese medicine could help fight the virus.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/deansterlingjones/coronavirus-british-newspaper-chinese-propaganda|title=A British Newspaper Has Given Chinese Coronavirus Propaganda A Direct Line To The UK|website=BuzzFeed News|date=8 April 2020|language=en|access-date=9 April 2020|archive-date=3 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103211853/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/deansterlingjones/coronavirus-british-newspaper-chinese-propaganda|url-status=live}}</ref>

''[[The Guardian]]'' reported in 2018 that the China Watch newspaper supplement was being carried by ''The Telegraph'' along with other [[Newspaper of record|newspapers of record]] such as ''[[The New York Times]], [[The Wall Street Journal]]'' and ''[[Le Figaro]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/07/china-plan-for-global-media-dominance-propaganda-xi-jinping|title=Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign|date=7 December 2018|website=The Guardian|language=en-GB|access-date=14 April 2020|archive-date=10 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200310193251/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/07/china-plan-for-global-media-dominance-propaganda-xi-jinping|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== COVID-19 misinformation ===
{{Main|COVID-19 misinformation}}
In January 2021 British press regulator, the [[Independent Press Standards Organisation]] ordered ''The Daily Telegraph'' to publish a correction to two "significantly misleading" claims in a comment article published by [[Toby Young]]. The July 2020 article "When we have herd immunity Boris will face a reckoning on this pointless and damaging lockdown," which spread [[COVID-19 misinformation]] that the common cold provided "natural immunity" to [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]] and that London was "probably approaching herd immunity".<ref>{{Cite news|date=15 January 2021|title=Toby Young: Telegraph coronavirus column 'significantly misleading'|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55676037|access-date=15 January 2021|archive-date=15 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115164617/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55676037|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Bland|first=Archie|date=15 January 2021|title=Daily Telegraph rebuked over Toby Young's Covid column|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/14/daily-telegraph-rebuked-over-toby-youngs-herd-immunity-covid-column|access-date=15 January 2021|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=14 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114205610/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/14/daily-telegraph-rebuked-over-toby-youngs-herd-immunity-covid-column|url-status=live}}</ref>  The regulator said that a correction was appropriate rather than a more serious response due to the level of scientific uncertainty at the time the comment was published.<ref name=":0" /> At the time of the ruling, the Telegraph had removed the comment article but had not issued a correction.<ref name=":0" />

=== Climate change ===
''The Telegraph'' has published multiple columns and news articles which promote [[Climate change denial|pseudoscientific views on climate change]], and misleadingly cast the subject of climate change as a subject of active scientific debate when there is a [[scientific consensus on climate change]].{{refn|<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/telegraph-article-misleads-with-false-balance-mixing-in-unsupported-and-inaccurate-claims-sarah-knapton/|title=Telegraph article on climate change mixes accurate and unsupported, inaccurate claims, misleads with false balance|date=18 October 2019|website=Climate Feedback|language=en-US|access-date=30 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030042554/https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/telegraph-article-misleads-with-false-balance-mixing-in-unsupported-and-inaccurate-claims-sarah-knapton/|archive-date=30 October 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/another-arctic-ice-panic-world-temperatures-plummet-the-telegraph-christopher-booker/|title=The Telegraph publishes false information about Arctic climate|date=9 May 2017|website=Climate Feedback|language=en-US|access-date=30 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812105055/https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/another-arctic-ice-panic-world-temperatures-plummet-the-telegraph-christopher-booker/|archive-date=12 August 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/the-telegraph-christopher-booker-arctic-ice-has-made-fools-of-warmists/|title=Analysis of "How Arctic ice has made fools of all those poor warmists"|date=31 July 2015|website=Climate Feedback|language=en-US|access-date=30 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030042556/https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/the-telegraph-christopher-booker-arctic-ice-has-made-fools-of-warmists/|archive-date=30 October 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Powell-2011">{{Cite book|url=http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-inquisition-of-climate-science/9780231157186|title=The Inquisition of Climate Science|last=Powell|first=James Lawrence|date=2011|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231527842|pages=1, 159–160|access-date=30 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030042554/http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-inquisition-of-climate-science/9780231157186|archive-date=30 October 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Climate Feedback-2015">{{Cite web|url=https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/the-telegraph-dan-hyde-earth-heading-for-mini-ice-age-within-15-years/|title=Analysis of "Earth heading for 'mini ice age' within 15 years"|date=30 July 2015|website=Climate Feedback|language=en-US|access-date=30 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101154330/https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/the-telegraph-dan-hyde-earth-heading-for-mini-ice-age-within-15-years/|archive-date=1 January 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Climate Feedback-2016">{{Cite web|url=https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/the-telegraph-bjorn-lomborg-in-many-ways-global-warming-will-be-good-thing/|title=Analysis of "…in many ways global warming will be a good thing"|date=9 May 2016|website=Climate Feedback|language=en-US|access-date=30 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001222841/https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/the-telegraph-bjorn-lomborg-in-many-ways-global-warming-will-be-good-thing/|archive-date=1 October 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>}} It has published columns about the "conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth",<ref name="Powell-2011" /> described climate scientists as "white-coated prima donnas and narcissists,"<ref name="Powell-2011" /><ref name="Climate Feedback-2015" /> and claimed that "global warming causes about as much damage as benefits."<ref name="Climate Feedback-2016" /> In 2015, a ''Telegraph'' news article incorrectly claimed that scientists predicted a mini-ice age by 2030.<ref name="Climate Feedback-2015" /> Climate change denying journalist [[James Delingpole]] was first to use "[[Climatic Research Unit email controversy|Climategate]]" on his ''Telegraph'' blog for a manufactured controversy where emails were leaked from climate scientists ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit and misleadingly presented to give the appearance that the climate scientists were engaged in fraud.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/comparative-politics/who-speaks-climate-making-sense-media-reporting-climate-change|title=Who speaks climate making sense media reporting climate change {{!}} Comparative politics|website=Cambridge University Press|language=en|access-date=30 October 2019|archive-date=4 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220404133201/http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/comparative-politics/who-speaks-climate-making-sense-media-reporting-climate-change|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2014, ''The Telegraph'' was one of several media titles to give evidence to the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] [[Select committee (United Kingdom)|Select Committee]] 'Communicating climate science'. The paper told [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MPs]] they believe climate change is happening and humans play a role in it. Editors told the committee, "we believe that the climate is changing, that the reason for that change includes human activity, but that human ingenuity and adaptability should not be ignored in favour of economically damaging prescriptions."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/01/telegraph-and-mail-concede-on-climate-change|title=Telegraph and Mail concede on climate change|last=Vaughan|first=Adam|date=1 April 2014|work=The Guardian|access-date=12 November 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191117165326/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/01/telegraph-and-mail-concede-on-climate-change|archive-date=17 November 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Owen Paterson ===
''The Daily Telegraph'', in particular its columnist and former editor [[Charles Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham|Charles Moore]], were staunch supporters of [[Owen Paterson]], a former MP and minister who resigned after it was found that he had breached advocacy rules to lobby ministers for fees. A plan to overhaul the [[House of Commons|Commons]] standard and spare Paterson from being suspended and a possible recall petition that follows was leaked to the newspaper and it was "approvingly" splashed across the paper's front page.{{according to whom|date=January 2022}} Boris Johnson flew back from the [[COP 26]] summit in Glasgow to attend a ''Telegraph'' journalists' reunion at the [[Garrick Club|Garrick]] and was seen{{by whom|date=January 2022}} to leave the club with Moore the same evening.<ref name="FT04112021">{{cite news |last1=Parker |first1=George |last2=Hughes |first2=Laura |last3=Payne |first3=Sebastian |title=Boris Johnson's bruising defeat over standards reform angers Tory MPs |url=https://www.ft.com/content/51c93ba3-4a59-4e88-92ed-3e152a896493 |access-date=7 November 2021 |work=Financial Times |date=4 November 2021 |archive-date=7 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107073744/https://www.ft.com/content/51c93ba3-4a59-4e88-92ed-3e152a896493 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{additional citation needed|date=January 2022}}