Independent: "In such a complicated and diverse election, an endorsement for a single party is meaningless ... The Independent will not patronise readers by pretending the country is a single constituency ... Instead, we seek an outcome in which there is a significantly larger force of Liberal Democrat MPs. And we hope that Mr Brown replaces Mr Blair as prime minister sooner rather than later ... After what has happened in the build-up to war and the steady erosion of civil liberties, it is vital that the forces of liberalism are strengthened to bring about a new political culture."
Express: "New Labour, like every version of Labour before it, has attempted to use the state to protect the irresponsible from the consequences of their actions. In doing so, it has merely encouraged further irresponsibility and undermined the values of self-sufficiency and family that this newspaper holds so dear ... We want a government that prefers to find solutions rather than to spin and deceive. To achieve this, we need to get Labour out and put the Conservatives in."
Mail: "Our support for a Conservative victory - which we concede is unlikely - is superseded by an even greater imperative: to diminish the power of an overweeningly arrogant Mr Blair and restore a healthy democracy to this country ... Whatever your political persuasion, we urge you to vote tactically to get the Labour candidate out, even if it means going against your usual inclinations ... The solution to giving him a bloody nose lies in your hands."
