The Daily Mail’s longstanding editor Paul Dacre received £88,000 in EU subsidies in 2014, according to a report filed by BuzzFeed news.
Dacre is said to have been given the subsidies for his country houses in Sussex and Scotland, with the former apparently earning him £29,118.76 during the year, and the latter £59,534.85.
The payments were made to a P Dacre under the common agricultural policy (CAP); one of the EU institutions regularly criticised by the Daily Mail, which called it “cripplingly expensive” in a January editorial.
The editor’s 20,000-acre Langwell Estate in the Scottish Highlands was purchased by Dacre and Read full story ›
Source: The Drum