How right-wing newspapers changed their coverage as Tory campaign imploded

i has analysed daily editions of the leading national papers to examine how they wanted to influence their readers in the run-up to the election.

Left-leaning papers consistently ran with negative stories about the Tories before dedicating their front pages to positive pieces about Labour in the final few days .

The Times ran the most varied range of stories that were either positive or negative for different parties, for example publishing seven front pages that were negative for the Conservative and six for Labour .

i examined newspaper coverage around key election moments to see how different titles reported them.

Three main right-wing papers produced 39 positive Conservative articles and 41 negative Labour stories.

The Sun produced far fewer positive stories about the Conservatives than their counterparts.

But when politics did make the cover, The Sun followed a similar pattern positive stories for the Conservatives before turning to negative stories for Labour .

Partisan reporting as well as misinformation have contributed to public scepticism about news journalism.

The Times and The Guardian each had one front page that could be considered biased.

Financial Times , i, and Metro the only titles not flagged as biased.