Today's front pages: UK goes to the polls
08 June
As the UK begins casting its vote, Thursday's front pages are awash with ringing endorsements, last-gasp pitches and pollsters' final predictions.
The Times's wraparound election splash places both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn outside No 10, but says the final polls gave the Tories a clear seven-point lead.
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Taking its headline from the Prime Minister's election-eve rallying cry to "reignite the British spirit", the Daily Mail reels off a list of Labour's failings and offers readers a guide to pro-Tory tactical voting.
According to the Daily Express, the future of the country depends on May winning a resounding victory, a tone the Daily Telegraph also strikes, with a front page invoking the spirit of 1914 to proclaim: "Your country needs you."
The Sun plumps for an anti-Corbyn mock-up rather than a pro-May angle, listing its objections to the Labour leader, including a repeat of its controversial claim that the Labour leader is "terrorists' friend".
"Lies, damned lies," screams the Daily Mirror, as it urges readers to vote Labour to oust May and her "broken promises".
It has been a "bruising" campaign for both leaders, says The Guardian, alongside a photo of Corbyn greeting supporters in Glasgow as part of the parties' last pitch to voters.
Metro splits its front page between a stern call for the UK to embrace its civic duty and vote and an indignant swipe at the "shameless" traffic wardens who ticketed cars abandoned in Saturday night's terror attack at London Bridge.
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