The Guardian – PM vows to end gloom as Labour seeks to lift spreading restrictions
The Guardian says Sir Keir Starmer will pledge to “build a new Britain” as the government looks at tweaking rules to potentially allow more spending on housing, roads and hospitals.
A picture of an Israeli airstrike makes the front splash – which reports at least 350 were killed in Lebanon amid fears of an all-out regional war.
Starmer to strike more upbeat note as Treasury plots spending boost
Keir Starmer will cast off the gloom that has dominated his early days in power and pledge to “build a new Britain” as the Treasury examines tweaking the fiscal rules to allow more capital spending.
Sources said the government could use next month’s budget to change the way its five-year debt rule is assessed, which could allow more spending on housing, roads and hospitals.
After a bruising few days leading up to Labour’s party conference in Liverpool, the prime minister will tell the country there is “light at the end of the tunnel” but that they must first join a “shared struggle” to get there.
“A project that says, to everyone, this will be tough in the short-term, but in the long-term it’s the right thing to do for our country. And we all benefit from that,” he will tell the hall.
Israeli strikes kill 492 in heaviest daily toll in Lebanon since 1975-90 civil war
At least 492 people have been killed and 1,645 injured, Lebanon’s health ministry has said, after a wave of Israeli airstrikes on alleged Hezbollah targets that left the country with its highest daily death toll since the end of the 1975-90 civil war.
Tens of thousands of people fled from south Lebanese towns and villages along the main road towards the capital, Beirut, in Israel’s most intense barrage in nearly a year of cross-border clashes, as sirens were also heard in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. The Lebanese health ministry said 35 children and 58 women were among those killed.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said the military was changing the “security balance” along its northern border. “I promised we would change the security balance, the balance of power in the north – and that is exactly what we are doing,” the Israeli prime minister told a security meeting on Monday.
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Editorial 24 September 2024.
Light at the end of this tunnel” – Tuesday’s front pages continue their coverage of the Labour Party conference taking place this week, the first party conference in power in more than 15 years.
Some newspapers cover Rachel Reeves’s speech yesterday, as the chancellor promised no return to austerity and laid out a more optimistic view of the UK economy. Many newspapers look ahead to the speech by PM Sir Keir Starmer, who will speak at the conference in Liverpool today.
Elsewhere, there is coverage of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East with many of the front pages featuring images of Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon. Many papers fret the region is on the brink of an all-out war.