Brexit

Brexit day bonanza: newspaper front pages beat drums of victory

The Sun, Express, Telegraph, Times, Mail and Daily Star all hail their role on day the UK leaves the European Union

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It was the Sun wot won it! And the Express. And the Telegraph, definitely.

Brexit day in Britain was greeted by competing triumphalist newspapers claiming victory, along with competing souvenir ephemera.

While Boris Johnson’s address to a painfully fractured nation was set to include a promise to “bring this country together”, there was little of the conciliatory sentiment in the flag-waving, jingoism of Friday’s headlines.

The Daily Telegraph treated readers to a free supplement: “The story of the Telegraph and Brexit”. Inside, a potted history boasted: “The campaign to leave the EU that changed the course of history and propelled a newspaper columnist into Downing Street.”