Like hungry sharks onto ripe burley, the UK print-media has predictably bared its collective teeth and lashed out at Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party for its election- day editions.

Buoyed by the latest polls showing Boris Johnson’s Conservatives holding a small but election-winning lead, the big-selling British redtops and the more conservative broadsheets have all tried their best to shred the left of UK politics of any hope of political salvation, let alone survival.

The Bug rang all the major media companies as they beavered away on a cold Wednesday night and asked them to email us their front pages as they took form in newsroom art departments across the Centre of Empire.

They are reproduced, without comment.