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Britain’s Eurosceptic newspapers, after decades of attacking Brussels, celebrate the victory in their Friday editions after the Brexit transition period ended, but the pro-EU media insist on a “sad day.”
The Guardians The headline on the front page focuses on Britain’s exit from the EU in the midst of a “crisis, no fanfare.” The newspaper’s coverage also includes a story about Dover being “eerily silent” after a “week of chaos” and an editorial calling Brexit a “tragic national mistake.”
The times sprinkles on Boris Johnson’s “optimistic new year’s message” celebrating an “amazing” future for the UK.
The online Independent runs with a satirical cartoon portraying leading Brexiters as various species of fish, referencing arguments over fisheries control that nearly upended a London-Brussels trade deal after months of talks. The headline is “Unhooked or adrift?” Johnson is a sole, “usually out of reach”, while former Ukip Farage leader is drawn as a herring, “commonly gutted, pickled or smoked”.
The cover of the Daily express features a picture of the White Cliffs of Dover and the headline “Our Future. Our Great Britain. Our destiny”.
Sun relegates the Brexit story to a front-page box titled “PM: Britain’s Brexpects,” which informs Johnson’s words that Brexit marked a moment of national renewal in which the country would “push” scientific innovation.
Instead, the tabloid shows a graphic of Big Ben with a giant syringe marking 12 o’clock, to publicize its campaign for an army of volunteers to help with Britain’s coronavirus vaccination program.
“Welcome to 2021, and two reasons to look forward to a much brighter future,” headlines the Daily telegraph, where Johnson made a name for himself as a European correspondent for attacks on Brussels in the 1990s.
It refers to Brexit and the UK regulators’ approval of a new Covid-19 vaccine developed in Britain by the University of Oxford and Cambridge-based AstraZeneca.
the Daily mail It has already shifted its full focus to the pandemic after new data showed that nearly a million vaccines had already been administered in Britain.
