"World's most successful newspaper crusade ends in glorious victory," declared one of Britain's leading tabloids the morning after the country's shock vote to leave the EU.
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But while The Daily Express celebrated the the vote, The Daily Mirror asked "So what the hell happens now?" The paper, which on its sombre front page also referred to plummeting shares and "the worst crisis since WW2", had earlier urged readers not to take "a leap into the dark".
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Many newspapers used downcast photos of British Prime Minister David Cameron announcing his resignation as his wife Samantha looked on. The Daily Star went instead with a pug dressed in British garb as it borrowed a line from Donald Trump and declared it time to "make Britain great again".
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The Daily Mail was also in a celebratory mood, congratulating readers for rising up "against an arrogant, out-of-tough political class and a contemptuous Brussels elite".
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The Independent took a more pessimistic approach as it lamented " Welcome to Boris Island', on a front page that also pointed to a "Brexit survival guide".
"We've broken off with Europe, the PM has resigned, Nigel Farage is rampant, markets have crashed, Scotland wants another referendum, there are 52 trade deals to be renegotiation - and one man is favourite to be the new prime minister...," The Independent said.
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Rupert Murdoch's The Sun, which declared its support for a Leave vote earlier in the month, focused on the "reason Cam quit"
"Why should I do the hard s**t?" the British Prime Minister was quoted as saying to aides before he announced his resignation.
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In Scotland, where voters overwhelmingly wanted to remain in the EU, newspapers were largely focused on a second referendum for independence. In a shout out to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the Daily Record declared "EU go girl", while the Scottish Daily Mail led with "Disunited kingdom".
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Across the pond, the New Yorker reflected on the vote with an image by artist Barry Blitt paying homage to an iconic John Cleese skit in Monty Python's Flying Circus.
An early look at next week's cover, “Silly Walk Off a Cliff,” by Barry Blitt: https://t.co/brZjcbpbbZ pic.twitter.com/LJ1kZjABpg— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) June 24, 2016
"I was stunned when I heard the news this morning and really upset," Blitt told the magazine. " I just sent money to my kid, who's travelling over there - if I had just waited, I'd have saved a bundle now that the pound has collapsed."