I assume your question is disingenuous, Lizzie, as I'm sure you know very well the sort of values purveyed by the Daily Mail. But if you really want clarification (as I was the person who used the term) it's the people who get themselves into a high dudgeon after reading inflammatory and often grossly exaggerated articles in tabloids such as The Daily Mail. It seems to have been demonstrated that this whole issue would never have even caused much of a fuss if the Daily Mail had not whipped its readers into the sort of excessive moral frenzy for which it (and they) have become notorious. As someone said up the thread, "So, a serious and stupid lapse of judgement, which would have been forgotten if it hadn't been for The Daily Mail, who started the whole Shit storm."

Whoever used the term "middle England" can, I'm sure, define it themselves.