Calling it: The British papers have come out on Brexit, and they're pretty divided

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WITH THE UK steamrolling towards Thursday’s vote on whether or not to remain in the EU, the country’s newspapers have been declaring their sides.

Britain’s right- and left-wing publications are taking a variety of positions, citing the pros and cons of staying in or leaving the union.

Rupert Murdoch-owned the Sun on Sunday, Britain’s most read Sunday, declared its support for a Brexit earlier this week in its daily edition.

Tomorrow's front page. We're backing Brexit - and here's why: https://t.co/wzeRfhNSLS pic.twitter.com/rmX9DgIlMo
— The Sun (@TheSun) June 13, 2016

Source: The Sun/Twitter

Its editorial states a vote to leave would allow the country to free itself from “dictatorial Brussels”, describing the EU as ”increasingly greedy, wasteful, bullying and breathtakingly incompetent in a crisis”.

The Mail on Sunday, which boasts Britain’s second largest Sunday circulation, has taken the unexpected move of urging its readers to vote to remain – a contrary stance to its sister paper the Daily Mail.

Mail Out, Mail on Sunday In, as Guido readers knew in February: https://t.co/kg55mj2GPT
— Media Guido (@MediaGuido) June 18, 2016

Source: Media Guido/Twitter

http://www.thejournal.ie/brexit-british-papers-support-sunday-2833085-Jun2016/