The i Paper’s headline dubs sacked former Conservative shadow minister Robert Jenrick “spy Jenrick” with a story suggesting he will take”Tory secrets to Farage”. But his defection to Reform UK and the i’s prediction of a “plum job” will kick-start a “new power struggle” in Reform, it writes.
In an editorial for the Telegraph, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch writes “Britain is not broken”. The “rebuke” following Jenrick’s defection sets out “the dividing lines between the Conservatives and Reform” arguing the country’s “best days are ahead”. Polling by the paper after the 10 cancelled council elections suggests “Labour would face wipeout” if they went ahead.
Given Badenoch’s words in the Telegraph, it seems a bit of a handbrake turn to see her and Jenrick pictured either side of the Daily Express’s headline “We will fix broken Britain… but not together”. The paper promises an exclusive on its inside pages on what the pair “have to say about their political split”.
Defence Secretary John Healey’s words “Farage can’t be trusted with Britain” lead the Daily Mirror. His comments come after Farage said he wouldn’t vote for a peacekeeping force in Ukraine.
But the Times says Labour has its own internal problems, with its lead suggesting, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is “under pressure to get rid of Streeting”, according to the Times. Three cabinet ministers have “hit out after ‘toxic’ row”, privately accusing Health Secretary Wes Streeting of putting his ambitions for leadership ahead of the party.
The Daily Mail leads with the employment tribunal ruling that a hospital “violated the dignity” of a group of female nurses who complained about a transgender woman using their changing room. The nurses have now urged ministers to “protect all women” and stop “dragging their heels” over national guidance on same-sex spaces.
“Back my Greenland plans or face tariffs” headlines the Guardian after US president Donald Trump said he may impose the fees on countries that don’t “go along” with his plan. The story is twinned with a trail for an inside feature on “The rise of JD Vance”.
The Daily Star leads with a picture of Trump holding up this year’s Nobel peace prize, after Venezuelan winner Marina Machado gifted it to him. The paper dubs it an “ig-nobel peace prize” and writes “it’s not yours.. put it down”.
The lead for the Financial Times is the EU’s “proposal to tear up membership rules” as it “eyes two-tier accession for Kyiv”. This model could fast-track Ukraine’s entry into the bloc should a peace deal over Russia’s invasion come into place, it writes. Also on the FT’s front is home news with the headline “NHS waiting lists shrink during young doctors’ strike as consultants jump in”.
Following the retirement of the West Midlands Police chief over his decision to ban Israeli fans from a match against Aston Villa, the Independent asks “why didn’t they fire him?” Craig Guildford faced “major criticism” and “lost the confidence of the home secretary” after providing incorrect evidence to MPs on the report that led to the ban.
England footballer Marcus Rashford was “duped” into posing with the killer of Jimmy Mizen, the Sun writes. Now Jake Fahri’s move to an open jail has been blocked and the paper says that was because of his “lies to a probation panel”.
