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The Cameron and Clegg show: today's front pages

1311 front pages: 01 Evening Standard
The London Evening Standard's 'civil partnership' gag yesterday afternoon set the tone for how this morning's newspapers responsed to the Cameron-Clegg press conference Photograph: London Evening Standard
1311 front pages: 02 Indy
The Independent, now a sister paper to the Standard, took the joke furthest, with a full wedding ceremony for 'Britain's new power couple'. The picture captions go from 'I, Nick, take you, Dave...' to '...till debt do us part' Photograph: The Independent
1311 front pages: 03 Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph. Same joke, nice transatlantic spin. The Matt cartoon imagines the notes on the fridge of a Cameron-Clegg house share Photograph: Daily Telegraph
1311 front pages: 04 Gdn
The Guardian has a vanilla version of the partnership pun, but a nice wide picture Photograph: Guardian
1311 front pages: 05 Mail
The Daily Mail deploys sledgehammer sarcasm - although the text of the article is slightly more ambiguous in tone - and its picture captures Cameron gurning Photograph: Daily Mail
1311 front pages: 06 Sun
The Sun goes for a different sort of double act, photoshopping Cameron and Clegg into Morecambe and Wise. Clegg is Ernie. And the lead-in to the 'BRING US SUNSHINE' headline ('Cameron and Clegg had better bloody well...') is just a touch threatening Photograph: The Sun
1311 front pages: 07 Star
The Daily Star goes for a more contemporary double act - meet 'the new Ant and Dec'. Unsurprisingly, it becomes the first paper to shift back towards non-political news, with a separate lead story under the picture Photograph: Daily Star
1311 front pages: 08 Mirror
The Daily Mirror skewers the coalition with an Alan Bennett reference, having used up ConDemNation during the talks; the No 10 door picture rather than a No 10 garden one allows for a tighter composition Photograph: Daily Mirror
1311 front pages: 09 Express
The Daily Express's front - is 'brave new world' in the standfirst a glance at yesterday's Sun? Photograph: Daily Express
1311 front pages: 10 FT
The Financial Times reserves its marriage pun for the Matthew Engel sketch, downpage, playing the main headline commendably straight Photograph: Financial Times
1311 front pages: 11 Times
The Times reaches for gravitas in its headline, but plays it off against a comic press conference picture - and a little Morecambe and Wise to trail the sketch inside. Wonder if they knew what their colleagues at the Sun would be doing... Photograph: The Times
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