Left, right and centre?

If the press have any influence on the voters of Hartlepool, the Liberal Democrats have got it made...

The Centre minded voter will love this...

The Independent found Mr Kennedy "charming, nimble, almost capable".


While those on the left will be won over by this...

The Sun did not, printing a picture of him alongside one of a snake - "Spot the difference" it asks, saying "one's a spineless reptile that spits venom. The other is a poisonous snake."


And for the right wing Thatcherites we have...

The Mirror is not much kinder. Its department of creative photography has produced a picture of him as a flame-haired Lady Thatcher, the headline reading: "Orange Tories".

I'm not sure if that was what the newspapers concerned really wanted.