Author: News Desk

Levelling up: More powers for local leaders: Boris Johnson has set out the “skeleton” of a plan to “level up” the country, by spreading power and opportunity more evenly.

The Guardian says Boris Johnson will attempt to reassure Tory MPs in south-east England that his flagship “levelling up” policy does not involve directly favouring the party’s new power base.

The Independent says levelling up is one of the most familiar of the government’s slogans, but nowhere is it precisely defined. Is Boris Johnson’s promise achievable?

The Times says Britain is firing on only “one cylinder”, Boris Johnson said today as he called for a national effort to improve the economic performance of the North and Midlands.

The Times says Britney Spears won the right last night to choose her own lawyer to help to end the 13-year-long conservatorship that controls her personal and business affairs.

The i says up to 60,000 people could die this winter due to a “lethal triple mix” of seasonal viruses and Covid-19 that could leave the NHS is “unable to cope”

The i says spending in pubs and bars rose by almost 40 per cent in June as people flocked to watch the Euros and enjoy a spell of sunshine.

The i says Josh Helfgott has been intensely worried about Britney Spears since 2008 when the singer had a public breakdown

The Guardian says Rishi Sunak said Britain’s economy was bouncing back after the latest official figures showed the number of workers on payrolls surged in June by 356,000.

The Guardian says heavy rain and once-in-a-generation floods has caused the collapse of six houses in Germany’s western state of Rhineland-Palatinate