Today’s news summary – Paper Talk: Plans to slash migration – ‘chaotic and cruel’
Tuesday’s front pages report on various headlines. One of the main stories is the announcement from the government of new plans to reduce migration.
Migration plans
The Sun newspaper references the government’s new plans to reduce migration. PM Rishi Sunak writes in the paper that the approach will be: “If you can’t contribute to the UK, you can’t come to the UK.”
The Daily Express calls the measure sensible and practical. The Times editorial calls them a sound basis for reducing the number of people coming to the country and a proportional response.
The Daily Mail says the proposals are far-reaching but it also has a warning for the government. The measure will not be introduced until April, and the paper says that means “Mr Sunak may find that he has taken what he considers to be radical action only to find an ungrateful public has barely noticed”.
The Daily Telegraph’s political associate Camilla Tominey says: “It remains to be seen whether the public will view still granting visas to the equivalent of the population of Leeds every year as the largest reduction on record”, as the government has claimed.
The Daily Mirror gives a scathing assessment of the plans. It calls the plans chaotic and cruel.
‘Shrinkflation’ and more economic woes
The Guardian says the UK’s most hazardous nuclear site, Sellafield in Cumbria, has been hacked into by cyber groups linked to Russia and China.
The Telegraph claims there is evidence of insider trading that meant people with prior knowledge of the Hamas attack made tens of millions of pounds.
The Times warns that “shrinkflation” is going to be “no cause for celebration” this Christmas. The paper says that shoppers expect to spend an average £105 more because boxes of chocolates, tins of biscuits, mince pies and cheeses have risen in price despite actually getting smaller.
CITY AM compares Jeremy Hunt to Monty Python’s Black Knight character after his comments, at a Resolution Foundation event, that the UK economy has a “sprained ankle rather than a broken leg”.
The Sun says Hunt reckons Britain can become the success story of the 21st Century because of its untapped potential.
Farage to become a peer
The Daily Mirror leads on the lack of screen time for Nigel Farage on the ITV show I’m A Celebrity. The paper quotes an ITV insider as saying “the local wildlife is more entertaining than he is”.
The i suggests Rishi Sunak will make Farage a peer to see off any risk of him re-joining the Tories and a potential leadership battle.