The Financial Times leads with Labour’s “watered down” plans to strengthen workers’ rights in a bid to impress corporate leaders and discredit Conservative claims the party is “anti-business” ahead of the next general election. It says a pledge to boost the protection of gig economy workers was “diluted”, according to a text seen by the paper. 

The front page also reports Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, who as England’s deputy chief medical officer became a household name during the Covid pandemic, is taking up a role at vaccine maker Moderna.