The Guardian – Keep the faith and Britain will prosper, urges Starmer
The Guardian is another of the papers leading on the prime minister’s speech to the Labour conference. It says he told delegates the UK can flourish if it accepts some difficult “trade-offs” and sees through Tory “lies”.
Thousands are fleeing Lebanon amid heavy Israeli airstrikes, as Britons are warned to leave the area now as fears continue to rise of an all-out war in the region, the paper adds.
Keep the faith, Starmer urges as he vows to build ‘a new Britain’
Britain can become a country of pride, wealth and stability if the public accepts a series of difficult “trade-offs”, rejects nimbyism and sees through the Conservatives’ populist “lies”, Keir Starmer has said.
In his first Labour conference speech as prime minister, he urged the public to keep faith amid tough and sometimes unpopular choices made by the government, telling them he understood their impatience for real change.
Those difficult decisions include building new prisons so that justice could be served, overground pylons to provide cheaper electricity, and accepting that a serious system to tackle irregular migration would also include accepting some asylum seekers.
Starmer attempted to draw a line under a week of bruising rows over donations, telling delegates he would not be distracted by noisy criticism of his government which he regarded as “mere glitter on a shirt cuff”, a reference to a protest during last year’s speech.
New Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon as Hezbollah confirms death of senior commander
Israel began a third day of strikes in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, hours after Hezbollah confirmed the death of a senior commander in an airstrike on Beirut and a Lebanese minister said only Washington could help end the fighting.
Lebanese media reported that Israeli airstrikes had targeted several areas in the country’s south, beginning at around 5am, causing unspecified casualties.
Hezbollah meanwhile said it had launched a rocket targeting Mossad headquarters near Tel Aviv. Sirens had sounded in the Israeli city early on Wednesday, sending residents into bomb shelters, however the Israeli military later said it had intercepted the missile and no casualties or damage were reported.
Earlier on Wednesday, Hezbollah had confirmed that senior commander Ibrahim Qubaisi was among six people killed by an Israeli airstrike on an apartment block in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, as Israel had claimed earlier. Israel said Qubaisi headed the group’s missile and rocket force.
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Editorial 25 September 2024.
“The state will take back control” – Wednesday’s front pages reflect on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s party conference speech. The Labour Party conference, being held in Liverpool, marks the first Labour conference in power in more than 15 years.
Away from the party conference, several front pages report on plans to evacuate Britons stuck in Lebanon amid rising violence in the region.
A handful of newspapers lead with showbiz and royal news.