The Times plays catch-up

Electoral uncertainty creates mayhem on the paper’s front page.

Spare a thought for the Times, a newspaper with form for pro-Tory shifts, as it tried to keep up with the overnight electoral uncertainty.

Election chaos

The paper starts with the story of voters turned away from polling stations.

As exit polls show the Conservatives outstripping Labour, it gets a little more ambitious.

But as the results come in, the newspaper hedges its bets and runs on Cameron’s claim to a mandate, made in his acceptance speech early in the night.

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