Year: 2024

Nigeria booked their place in the final of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations with a 4-2 shootout win over South Africa. 

Has PM opened door to Boris Johnson come back? – asks the front page of the Daily Express newspaper.
Rishi Sunak today opens the door to Boris Johnson’s political comeback and tells of his pride in their time working together.

The Prime Minister admits there are “well-documented differences” between them but revealed he talked to his former boss just a few months ago.

Prince William returns to work – that’s the headline for the Sun.

Rishi Sunak is slammed for his tone-deaf transgender comments in the House of Commons – that’s the headline on the front page of the Mirror.

Prince William has made his first public appearance since the King’s cancer diagnosis, the Metro reports, while Prince Harry has flown home to the US following his short visit to the UK to see his father.

‘I’d like to take this opportunity to say thank you, also, for the kind messages of support for Catherine and for my father, especially in recent days,’ he said. ‘It means a great deal to us all.

The Financial Times reports on a £2.5bn deal by Barratt to purchase Redrow – a deal the paper says cements the company’s place as the UK’s largest house-building firm.

Many of Thursday’s front pages lead with Prince William’s return to work for the first time since King Charles’s cancer diagnosis and his wife Catherine’s abdominal surgery.

There are also stories about Tory MPs and critics rounded on PM Rishi Sunak for insensitivity over comments he made in the Commons about transgender people – whilst Brianna Ghey’s mother was in the gallery. The teenager was stabbed to death last year by two fellow teens. 

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While calls and data services are suspended, WiFi appears to remain operational. The country remains on high alert and polling stations across Pakistan are being heavily guarded.