Elaine He & James Boxell, Columnists

Rupert Murdoch Is About to Lose His Fleet Street Crown

If the Mirror/Express merger survives, it’ll have more readers than Sun-owning News U.K.

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"Send In Army to Halt Migrant Invasion," is the kind of headline you'll find adorning the front page of Britain's Daily Express newspaper. It’s a brand of angry foreigner-baiting that's characteristic of most of the U.K.'s tabloid press. But not all of it.

The rival Daily Mirror is a different beast. While it too revels in celebrities' sexual indiscretions and royal family gossip, you're more likely to find a front page splash looking at the shameful treatment of Britain's Jamaican migrants than one telling foreign scroungers to clear off. In short, it's England's only left-leaning daily tabloid.