The Sun says: PRINCE Andrew has made a bolt for the safety of Balmoral and the Queen to avoid “multiple attempts” to serve sex assault legal papers at his Windsor mansion.
Day: 8 September 2021
The Guardian says private rents outside London are rising at their fastest rate for 13 years, research suggests
The Metro says health secretary Sajid Javid said he is ‘very confident’ that there will be a booster programme for third vaccine doses ‘starting this month’.
The Sun says: BORIS Johnson went for broke yesterday with a £36billion tax raid to save the Covid-ravaged NHS and end social care injustice.
The i says the NHS is heading into “one of its most challenging winters”, with Covid-19, waiting lists and staffing issues increasing fears that it will be pushed beyond capacity,
The Daily Mail: Despite the Megxit fallout, the first meeting when Harry introduced Meghan to Prince William and Kate Middleton went positively.
The Guardian says that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has staked his reputation on the £12bn plan. It says that Downing Street is “gambling”.
The Metro says “Boris plays ‘catch up'” alongside a picture of the prime minister playing Connect 4 at a care home. It says he has admitted breaking his election pledge not to raise taxes.
The i describes it as a “new era of tax hikes” and says that social care costs will be capped at £86,000.The prime minister will not rule out further tax rises.
The Daily Mirror says: A woman has voiced her fury after coming home to discover builders had put a massive 20-foot high concrete wall on the edge of her garden.
France24 says the Taliban announced an interim government drawn exclusively from their own loyalist ranks, with established hardliners in all key posts and no women.
The Mirror says: Northerners were more likely to die from Covid 19, spent almost six weeks longer in lockdowns and were made poorer than the rest of England during the first year of the pandemic, official figures have revealed.
Arab News says more than 700 people died in Yemen’s southern city of Aden in August following the third wave of coronavirus in the war-torn country.
Aljazeera says a fire tore through an overcrowded block in a jail in Indonesia’s western Banten province, killing at least 41 people and injuring dozens.
TRT World says putschists who seized power in Guinea at the weekend have pledged to release “political detainees” held under ex-president Alpha Conde.
TRT World says Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has approved legislation which limits social media companies from removing content or accounts.
The Guardian says Britney Spears’ father has filed an unexpected request to terminate the controversial conservatorship that has controlled the singer’s life for 13 years.
BBC News says MPs will vote later on whether to raise National Insurance to fund health and social care, a day after Boris Johnson announced the manifesto-breaking move.
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The Sun takes the gambling metaphor further with a picture of Boris Johnson rolling some dice. It uses the headline “BoJo’s biggest gamble”.
The Daily Mirror goes with the headline “Careless” as it says that struggling workers will be the hardest hit by the funding plan. Critics say it falls “far short of what’s needed”.
The Daily Mail calls on the prime minister to “make the care worth the cost”. It says the good news is that after “years of neglect” there is a plan for the social care crisis.
Saudi Arabia will end restrictions on travel to and from the UAE, South Africa and Argentina on Wednesday morning. The…