“Stop starving Gaza’s kids” is the demand which leads Saturday’s edition of the Mirror, paired with a photograph of a three-year-old boy being treated for malnutrition in Gaza. The paper features an open letter from Holocaust survivors who have “begged Israel to end the horrors of starving Palestinian children”, after a famine was confirmed in Gaza City by a UN-backed body. The report was labelled an “outright lie” by Israel, who deny starvation in the territory.
“I was Starmer’s political prisoner” is the main headline on The Telegraph, after the paper secured one of the first interviews with Lucy Connolly since her release from prison earlier this week. Connolly was jailed for stirring up racial hatred in the aftermath of the Southport attack, and spent 380 days behind bars.
Lucy Connolly is also the leading story for the Sun, and the paper says she is considering suing the police after her “jail ordeal”.
“Ghislaine: The truth about Duke & Epstein” reads the headline on the Daily Mail, after tapes from an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell were released by the US justice department.
The i Paper says that voter attitudes to migration “are hardening”. The paper reports that migration is now second only to the cost of living in terms of the most important issues facing the UK, overtaking the NHS.
Migration is also the main story for the Times, after Reform UK leader Nigel Farage outlined a £10bn plan to tackle asylum seekers in the UK. He said that the only way to move forward was to detain and deport all migrants who entered the country illegally, and pledged five deportation flights a day. The paper says his “draconian” plan would likely face “extensive legal, political and practical obstacles” should Reform win the next election.
“1.6m children stolen by Putin’s war machine” says the Express, alleging that hundreds of thousands of children have been placed in re-education programmes that support Russia’s military efforts and “erode their national identity”. The paper says they are calling for urgent action as the Kremlin “continues to groom youngsters to feed the dictator’s war machine”. Russia denies wrongdoing and says it has protected vulnerable children by moving them from a war zone for their own safety.
The Financial Times reports that there could be a US interest rate cut next month, drawing on remarks from Jay Powell at the Federal Reserve’s economic summit on Friday. He said that a “softening” jobs market could offset the potential inflation effects of the Trump administration’s tariffs, and that this “shifting balance” could “warrant adjusting our policy stance”.
The Daily Star has written a story on swimwear trends, claiming that British people have gone “barmy for thongs”.
