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Daily Mirror – Food banks heartbreak Summary of the front page The Daily Mirror says desperate families received three million emergency food parcels last year. “Food banks heartbreak” headlines the paper. It says figures from the Trussell Trust charity reveal one million children needed emergency food parcels last year. It pictures Newcastle striker Callum Wilson who says he used food banks. “I was that child once,” he explains. Today’s top stories Like this article? Leave a comment UK National newspapers Previous Next

Daily Express – Surely, a tax cut boost is now on the cards? Summary of the front page The Daily Express says Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is being urged to “cut tax as soon as possible” to help people struggling with the cost of living crisis. The paper carries a quote from ex-cabinet minister John Redwood who said: “Cut taxes now.” The paper observes economists believe the chancellor has plenty of “wiggle room” to cut the highest tax burden on record. Today’s top stories Like this article? Leave a comment UK National newspapers Previous Next

The Sun – Robbie: I’m done with sex Summary of the front page The Sun concentrates on intimate details of the love life of Robbie Williams. Elsewhere, the paper reports on UK evacuation in Sudan. The paper suggests that what it calls the “shambolic” response to the crisis may be because many Foreign Office staff are still working from home. Under the headline “shirk force” it asks: “how urgent and co-ordinated could any effort be to rescue thousands of Brits from an African war zone when key officials pad down the hall in slippers to ‘work’ from their spare room?” Today’s…

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New CBI boss starts job as crisis continues The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is facing a crisis as it struggles to survive amid allegations of sexual misconduct. Rain Newton-Smith, former chief economist at the CBI, will take over as director general on Wednesday as the organisation deals with the fallout from claims of workplace harassment, sexual assault and rape. The CBI has admitted failing to fire staff who had sexually harassed female workers and pledged to implement recommendations following an investigation by a law firm. However, several companies including John Lewis, BMW, Virgin Media O2, Aviva, Zurich, Phoenix Group,…

Record number of people relying on food donations The Trussell Trust, the UK’s largest food bank provider, has reported an unprecedented rise in the number of food parcels distributed in the past year. Nearly three million food parcels were distributed, an increase of 37% from the previous year, with 1.1 million of these parcels provided to children. In December, on average, a food parcel was given out every eight seconds. Despite the pandemic and rising cost of living pressures, the Trussell Trust said that low levels of income and an insufficient social security system had caused more people to need…

Bank of England economist says people need to accept they are poorer The Bank of England’s chief economist, Huw Pill, has warned that people in the UK must accept that they are poorer, or else prices will continue to rise. Speaking on a podcast in the US, Pill stated that workers’ demand for higher wages and businesses’ decision to raise prices are adding to inflation, which is currently at 10.1%, far higher than the Bank of England’s 2% target rate. The Bank has raised interest rates in an attempt to reduce spending and slow price rises, but Pill argues that…

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