Financial Times – Labour cannot tax and spend its way out of Tory mess, warns Blair 

The Financial Times leads on a warning from Sir Tony Blair to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, that the party will inherit “a country that’s in a mess” if it wins the next general election – and cannot tax and spend its way out of trouble. 

The front splash also pictures the aftermath of heavy floods in Libya, where thousands are feared dead. The paper says “recovery efforts are likely to be complicated by the weakness of the state”, as rival factions “carved the country into a patchwork of fiefdoms” in the last 12 years.