PMQs Live – Did you consider hiring Carrie? Labour asks PM and Starmer grills Johnson on what he’s doing about strikes.
Day: 22 June 2022
The PM will face Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer for this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions – the first questioning since the UK’s biggest strikes in 30 years started.
PM accused of ‘race to the bottom’ on pay deals – that’s the Independent’s headline.
A double-digit pension rise is on the cards for pensioners, according to the Metro.
Tory bill accused of fatally weakening human rights – that’s the headline on the front page of the Guardian.
Cost of living strike: Level up – that’s the Daily Mirror’s take on the industrial action.
Class war – school kids to suffer next – that’s the headline on today’s front page of The Sun..
Hatred of Boris … Is this what it’s all about? – that’s the Daily Express headline on today’s front page.
The Independent says SRI LANKA’S ECONOMY has “completely collapsed”, leaving it unable to buy imported fuel, the country’s prime minister has said.
The Independent says A CALIFORNIAN jury has found that Bill Cosby sexually abused a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy mansion in 1975 and awarded her $500,000 (£408,425).
The Independent says BREXIT will damage Britain’s competitiveness, hit productivity and dampen workers’ wages for the rest of the decade, according to a damning new study.
The Metro says STRIKE crisis talks will resume this morning while disruption continues across the network.
The Metro says AN ENTIRE British Airways crew is having to isolate for three weeks after one of them tested positive for monkeypox in Singapore.
The Metro says PRINCE ANDREW could be stripped of his title under a proposed law, which would have ‘wider implications’ for scandal-hit politicians.
The Metro says KIM KARDASHIAN was forced to halt her interview on the Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon on two occasions after being interrupted by her kids on Tuesday.
The Guardian says UK INFLATION has increased to 9.1%, the highest rate in 40 years amid record prices for petrol and the soaring cost of food.
The Guardian says BRITAIN’S cost of living crisis is being made worse by Brexit dragging down the country’s growth potential and costing workers hundreds of pounds a year in lost pay, new research claims.
The Guardian says A 6.1 MAGNITUDE earthquake has struck south-east Afghanistan killing at least 255 people, according to the country’s official news agency.
The Guardian says THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in Texas where a gunman killed 19 children and two adults will be demolished, according to the local mayor.
The Metro says A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman and five-year-old child – believed to be her son – were found stabbed to death in north London.
The Independent says DOMINIC RAAB has hit back at criticism that replacing the Human Rights Act is “racist” and sets up a fresh Brexit clash, as he publishes the controversial legislation.
The Guardian says DOWNING STREET will tomorrow set out sweeping plans to override the power of Europe’s human rights court just days after a judge in Strasbourg blocked the deportation of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda.
The Sun says BRITAIN will tear up “perverse” Euro laws that have been entrenched into UK courts in a new Bill of Rights, Dominic Raab says today.
Most of Wednesday’s front pages feature an image of empty rail stations as strikes begin.
BBC News says TRAIN services in Britain will continue to be disrupted on Wednesday as talks resume in a bid to resolve a dispute over jobs, pay and conditions.