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Sky News says Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has pulled out of a keynote speech he is due to give today – as pressure mounts on him over so-called ‘beergate’ claims.

Daily Express says BORIS JOHNSON could lose around 550 seats in tomorrow’s local elections, in the worst performance from the Tories since Sir Tony Blair led Labour in 1996, according to a new survey.

Daily Express says NICOLA STURGEON will be grilled by Scottish opposition leaders this afternoon, in the final FMQs before tomorrow’s local elections, after hinting at a deal with the Greens.

The Independent says Ministers have abandoned plans to send the first asylum-seekers to Rwanda this month as promised, prompting accusations that they are blaming legal challenges rather than admit that the idea is “unworkable”.

The Sun says BORIS Johnson has hinted hard-up Brits could get more cash to help with the cost of living crisis – but issued a “severe” warning that mortgages will rise.

The Independent says Party leaders are due to visit key battlegrounds today on the last day of political campaigning before voters go to the polls for the local elections on Thursday.

The Guardian says Boris Johnson’s fumbled defence of the government’s record on the cost of living has exasperated Conservative MPs and sharpened fears about the party’s performance in Thursday’s local elections.

The Sun says SUSANNA Reid skewered Boris Johnson over Britain’s cost of living hell today and blasted: “You’re not doing enough for people.”

The Guardian says the UK home secretary, Priti Patel, is facing mass legal action over delays that have left thousands of Ukrainians at risk of trauma and Russian bombs, or in limbo in eastern Europe.

The Metro says Boris Johnson is set to hail Ukraine’s ‘finest hour’ when he addresses the country’s Parliament tomorrow.

The Metro says The French President has been pelted with tomatoes days after being re-elected.

The Independent says a Conservative MP who watched allegedly pornography on his phone in the House of Commons has been reported to a parliamentary watchdog.

BBC News says an independent investigation could be launched into claims a Tory MP watched porn on his phone while in the Commons.

BBC News says the editor of the Mail on Sunday has declined an invitation to meet with the Speaker of the House of Commons over a controversial article about Labour’s deputy leader Angela Raynor.

Daily Mirror says Angela Rayner today spoke out over “disgusting” claims she uncrosses her legs to distract Boris Johnson – from Tory MPs who think “I must be thick”.

Sky News says the Speaker of the House of Commons has summoned the editor of a national newspaper for a meeting after an article about Angela Rayner.

Macron has won five more years as France’s president after a convincing victory over rival, far-right Marine Le Pen, who still managed to secure the far-right’s highest share of the vote yet.

Daily Mirror says Sue Gray’s report into lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street is so damaging that it could leave Boris Johnson with no choice but to resign, senior officials are said to believe.

The Independent says Boris Johnson will be forced to resign once the “damning” findings of Sue Gray’s review of lockdown-breaching parties in Whitehall are revealed, according to a report.

The Guardian says the Labour party has vowed to abolish the “non-dom” tax loophole used by the chancellor Rishi Sunak’s wife to save paying up to £20m in UK tax.

The Guardian says the pro-European centrist Emmanuel Macron has vowed to unite a divided France after winning a second term as French president.

BBC News says politicians have condemned a suggestion made in a newspaper that Labour’s Angela Rayner tries to distract Boris Johnson in the Commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs.

France24 says French President Emmanuel Macron has seen off his far-right rival Marine Le Pen to secure five years more years at the helm of Europe’s second economy.

The Metro says Florida lawmakers on Thursday voted to strip the Walt Disney Company of its special self-governing status, adding fuel to an ongoing political feud between the company and the governor.

The Sun says BORIS Johnson last night doubled down on his attack on the Archbishop of Canterbury saying his Rwanda policy was “morally right.”