Newspapers show their colours as readers go to polls

SOME 44 million people – roughly three quarters of the British population – were registered to vote for their choices among 4,149 candidates at around 50,000 polling stations.

And, as early voters headed for polling stations, most of Britain’s newspapers offered their own opinion on whom they should back in the election.

Newspapers encouraged their readers to the last moment to vote for the candidates they had endorsed.