US President Donald Trump has prevented Ukraine from using long-range missiles to strike deep into Russian territory, the Daily Telegraph reports. The Pentagon review mechanism limiting long-rage strikes was introduced to “entice” Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table. It means Kyiv has been unable to fire US-made Atacms weapons, as well as the Franco-British Storm Shadow missile, which uses US targeting data.
Buckingham Palace is bracing for “fresh revelations” when the memoir of Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre is published this autumn, writes the Daily Mail. Giuffre, who died by suicide earlier this year, sued the Duke of York, saying he had sexually assaulted her when she was 17. Prince Andrew, who reached an out-of-court settlement with her in 2022 in which he accepted no liability, denies all the claims against him. The paper is one of several to feature the new “sun-kissed look” of Catherine, Princess of Wales.
Catherine’s “lighter locks” also appear on the front page of the Sun, but the paper leads with Giuffre’s memoir set to be published in October. An unnamed source quoted by the paper says the book is Giuffre’s “ultimate revenge”.
New tapes of Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell are a “whitewash”, according to victims of the sex offender. The Daily Mirror reports that Maxwell told US officials that Epstein had no “client list” and that Prince Andrew had never met Giuffre. Two Epstein victims have accused US officials of giving Maxwell a “stage” to protect Donald Trump, who previously had a friendship with the disgraced financier.
Catherine’s “new blonde look” features prominently on the Daily Express front page. “Hair to the throne” is the headline. But the paper leads with an Albanian people-smuggler saying that the government could stop small boat crossings “tomorrow” if it wanted to. The man adds that Labour is not stopping the boats because it needs a cheap workforce willing to do “undesirable jobs”.
Labour grandees and ministers are calling on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to take a “more radical approach” to the small boats crisis, according to the Times. A YouGov poll for the paper suggested that 71% of voters believed the prime minister was mishandling the issue, including more than half of Labour voters.
The i Paper leads with a fast-track appeals process for migrants which “could become law within weeks”. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is moving to close asylum hotels, as protests against using them to house migrants continued this weekend. The new hearings procedure could take months to become operational, and a similar process introduced by Labour in 2005 was ruled unlawful for not giving asylum seekers enough time to find legal representation.
“Everything has become frighteningly polarised,” Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi tells the Guardian, which leads with MPs reporting a sharp rise in online abuse linked to the immigration debate. Another Labour MP said the abuse was “worse than Brexit”, with several MPs receiving death and rape threats over their stance on protests at hotels used to house asylum seekers.
Private equity firms are offering a “smorgasbord of discounts” as the industry faces a profitability crisis caused by higher interest rates and a slowdown in dealmaking, according to the Financial Times. Fundraising has shrunk by nearly a third since from its record levels in 2021.
The Daily Star lauds a “rare rain-free bank holiday”. The second-warmest August holiday in 60 years means the UK is set to be “hotter than Morocco”. “We’ll drink to that,” writes the paper.
