The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, also known as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet conservative newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as The Daily Telegraph and Courier. The Telegraph was headlined by the BBC in 2004 as the UK's "other paper of record" and mentioned in the Broadview Guide to Writing in 2017 as a newspaper of record among others. The paper's motto, "Was, is, and will be", was included in its emblem which was used for over a century starting in 1858.

In 2013, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, which started in 1961, were merged, although the latter retains its own editor. Both papers are politically conservative and support the Conservative Party, although the Daily Telegraph was moderately liberal before the late 1870s.

The Telegraph has had a number of news scoops, including an eyewitness account of the outbreak of the Second World War by a novice reporter, Clare Hollingworth, which has been described as "the scoop of the century"; the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal, which led to a number of high-profile political resignations and for which the paper was named 2009 British Newspaper of the Year; its 2016 undercover investigation of the England football manager Sam Allardyce; and the Lockdown Files in 2023.

In May 2025, an investment management firm, RedBird Capital Partners, announced plans to acquire the newspaper's publisher for £500 million (about US$674 million), but the deal collapsed in November 2025.

In March 2026, it was announced that the Telegraph Media Group would be acquired for £575 million by the German company Axel Springer SE, which CEO Mathias Döpfner described as a long‑standing goal and stated that The Daily Telegraph's editorial character would be preserved. The acquisition was completed in June 2026.