Month: September 2022

The Guardian says Graham Potter has verbally agreed to take the Chelsea manager’s job after holding talks. Terms are not finalised for the 47-year-old to join from Brighton but Chelsea are confident of appointing him.

The Guardian says The fugitive wanted over a mass stabbing in Canada that killed 10 people and injured 18 has died in hospital after his arrest, police have confirmed, with sources saying his death was the result of self-inflicted wounds.

The i newspaper says questions are growing over how Ms Truss’s plan will be funded, with former chancellor Philip Hammond telling the paper a future tax rise is inevitable.

The Guardian leads on energy bills, saying Liz Truss is “expected to announce to MPs that bills will be frozen at about £2,500 a year until 2024 as part of a package of support costing up to £130bn”.

Metro leads with a 23-year-old man from Essex, Jack Sepple, who has admitted murdering his teenage Canadian girlfriend.

The new prime minister, Liz Truss, has “given in to demands for an energy bills freeze”, according to the Daily Mirror.

Liz Truss will “set the course of her premiership by tackling Britain’s cost of living crisis head on”, according to the Daily Express.

The Sun leads on the Cambridge children, including a sometimes cheeky Prince Louis, who were all on their best behaviour as they were welcomed to the new school they’ll all attend together.

Thursday’s front pages are dominated by the new prime minister as Liz Truss is to announce her government support plans for lowering bills this winter. The papers also give their analysis of the PM’s first PMQs session yesterday.

The second suspect in the stabbing rampage that killed 10 people and left 18 injured in and around a Canadian Indigenous reserve died following a car chase.

Cause of death unknown.