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Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has said that "if anyone excels in... vilifying a lot about modern Britain, it's the Daily Mail", as he backed Labour leader Ed Miliband in his row with the newspaper.
Mr Clegg told LBC the Daily Mail's claim the Labour leader's father "hated Britain" was "out of order".
He said he was not a regular reader of the Mail, but "when I do, it seems to be overflowing with bile about modern Britain - talk about kettles and pots".
The Daily Mail stands by its reporting.
And in Thursday's edition, columnist Stephen Glover accuses Mr Miliband of staging a " for political reasons.
"On one level, Red Ed knew that, as he has bound himself to his father in a series of speeches, he could not afford to let the accusation that Miliband senior had hated Britain go unchallenged," he wrote.
"On another level, Ed Miliband realised that his diatribes against this paper would go down well with the party faithful, and possibly convince the wider electorate that he was stronger and more determined than they had thought.
"He may also hope that, by creating such an almighty hullabaloo about his supposedly traduced father 19 months before the general election, he will somehow neutralise a potentially embarrassing issue - the influence of his Marxist father on his own beliefs - and deter the press from returning to it in the near future."
'Raucous'
Asked about row, prompted by a profile of Marxist academic Ralph Miliband in Saturday's newspaper headlined "The man who hated Britain", Mr Clegg said it was "understandable" that Ed Miliband had reacted with such anger.
In his weekly phone-in on the London radio station, he added of the Daily Mail: "They don't like working mothers, they don't like the BBC, they don't like members of the royal family, they don't like teachers, they don't like the English football team - the list goes on.
"The Daily Mail is free to print what it likes, people like me are perfectly free to say that it's wrong."
Mr Clegg is the latest in a series of politicians to have backed Mr Miliband's anger at the way his father - a Jewish refugee to Britain who served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War - was described as hating Britain.
On Wednesday Lord Heseltine said the Mail article that caused the row was "demeaning", but Education Secretary Michael Gove said a free press was "raucous" and would hold politicians to account and "by definition, will sometimes offend".
Ed Miliband has said he does not share his father's ideology, but the Daily Mail has maintained it was fair to scrutinise the beliefs of his father as the Labour leader has talked of him being an influence.
In a right of reply in Tuesday's Daily Mail, Mr Miliband said his father "loved" Britain.
On the same pages the paper then repeated its original article and wrote an editorial saying his father had had an "evil legacy".
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