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Financial Times – Sunak launches City charm offensive with new business forum as CBI reels Summary of the front page The Financial Times says Rishi Sunak will hold the first of a series of summits with corporate leaders on Monday as the Tories seek to “repair the damage done by the Brexit years and fend off Labour’s attempts to become the party of business”. The paper says the debut of the “Business Connect” forum, which will bring together 200 senior business figures in London, takes on extra urgency as the CBI teeters on the “brink of collapse”. Today’s top stories…

Daily Mirror – Rod: Give nurses a pay rise now Summary of the front page The Daily Mirror reports on Sir Rod Stewart calling for nurses to get a “fair pay rise” in what it says is a “fresh attack on the Tories”. The singer-songwriter, who used to support the Conservative Party, says he backs striking NHS staff. Members of the Royal College of Nursing in England are due to walk out for 48 hours from Sunday night having rejected an offer which includes a 5% pay rise for this year. The front page also reports on Wrexham’s promotion back…

Daily Express – Daring SAS mission plucks Britons to safety Summary of the front page The Daily Express says the SAS joined the RAF and the Royal Marines in an operation to get diplomats and their families out of Sudan. The paper quotes a British-Sudanese woman called Rozen Ahmed who describes the “most harrowing experience” of her life spending six hours hiding under a bed with her terrified family without water. She travelled to Sudan nine days ago to attend a funeral and says the area she has been staying in has been “shelled to shreds”. Today’s top stories Like this…

Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Luxembourg, Ireland, Norway and the United Kingdom will meet in Belgium for the North Sea Summit.

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Labour officials will decide on Diane Abbott’s future, says shadow minister The Guardian says Diane Abbott’s local party and Labour officials will decide whether she can stand again at the next election, a shadow minister has said, after Abbott lost the Labour whip for her comments about racism. Abbott made comments suggesting that Jewish, Irish and Traveller people were not subject to racism “all their lives”. John Mann, the former Labour MP who is now a peer and advises the government on antisemitism, suggested it might be best if Abbott, an MP since 1987, did not stand again for her…

Diane Abbott suspended by Labour after suggesting Jewish people do not face racism The Independent says The Labour whip has been suspended from Diane Abbott pending an investigation into a letter the MP wrote suggesting Jewish people are not subjected to the same racism as some other minorities. Ms Abbott, the former shadow home secretary under Jeremy Corbyn, apologised over the comments and said the letter published in The Observer had been an “initial draft” sent by mistake. It stated that Jewish, Irish and traveller communities have experienced “prejudice”, but added: “This is similar to racism and the two words…

It’s time to forgive Diane Abbott The Spectator says Diane Abbott is a giant figure in the modern Labour party. As the first black woman ever to be elected to the House of Commons, and the longest serving black MP, she is an inspiration to black and brown communities – especially women – across the country. Abbott also wrote a crass and offensive letter to the Observer, in which she unfortunately, and utterly unsuccessfully, sought to distinguish racism from prejudice – in the process deeply offending the Jewish, Irish, and Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller (GRT) communities. For a life-long campaigner…