Browsing: The Daily Express

The Daily Express hails Jeremy Hunt’s budget for “turbo-charging the economy” by putting more cash in people’s pockets, in a bid to win back voters.

The Daily Express leads with a preview of the budget, reporting the chancellor will announce a 2p cut to national insurance.

The Daily Express carries an interview with former home secretary Priti Patel, who is calling on France to do more to “stop small boats”. She says France needs to do more to justify the millions of pounds the UK sends it to help tackle the issue of small boat crossings in the English Channel.

The government is “under pressure” to cut taxes, the Daily Express reports on its front page, with the prime minister and chancellor in talks to fund a budget “giveaway”.

Former home secretary Suella Braverman has told the Daily Express that current immigration levels “cannot go on”.

Dame Esther Rantzen, a strong campaigner for assisted dying, is “disappointed” that MPs who heard evidence on the matter in parliament did not push for a debate for a change in the law.

The Daily Express keeps former Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson on its front page for a second day, with the headline “I’m not racist!”.

Red Wall Conservatives are rallying around Lee Anderson and calling for him to be brought back into the Tory party after he was suspended following comments he made about Sadiq Khan.

The Daily Express leads on a report which claims there could be influxes of 250,000 extra migrants a year if Labour win the next election.

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The Daily Express says the Metropolitan Police has been accused of “normalising aggressive and offensive acts” after a pro-Palestine slogan was beamed onto Big Ben. The paper describes the contentious slogan as genocidal. Scotland Yard said it was not a criminal offence.

He is in the Speaker’s Chair, as usual, today and it is understood he is not planning to resign despite some 58 MPs signing a motion of no confidence in him.

The Daily Express reports that MPs are plotting to oust the House of Commons Speaker after a “stitch-up” that favoured Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.

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The front page features a picture of Cillian Murphy – who scooped Best Actor at the Baftas for his role in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

The Daily Express says a senior government official has urged British Gas to cut prices for customers after the company recorded record profits. The paper quotes a “senior government official” as saying the money could be used to cut customer bills “immediately”.

The Daily Express reports Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been urged to cut £20bn off the collective tax bill in light of an improvement in economic forecasts.

The Daily Express reports Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has been branded a “war criminal” by pro-Palestinian demonstrators. The paper says the “sinister targeting” of Tory MP Tobias Ellwood by a “pro-Palestinian mob” at his family home has been condemned as “chilling” by Alicia Kearns MP, head of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee.

The Daily Express leads on the news that a medical study has found that dementia may be able to be predicted 15 years before the first symptoms emerge using a simple blood test.

The Daily Express reports Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has pledged to end the “poisonous” woke culture which he says threatens to distract the military from its job of protecting the nation.

Also on the front page is the vigil to mark the first anniversary of teenager Brianna Ghey’s murder and a story about mobile coverage in rural areas.

The prime minister is going to “come out fighting” against Labour’s “dirty politics”, according to the Daily Express. The paper reports Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of trying to divert attention away from dropping his flagship green policy by calling on Rishi Sunak to apologise to Brianna Ghey’s family over comments at PMQs.

A Tory source has accused Sir Keir of using the death of Brianna Ghey, a transgender teenager who was murdered in a park in February last year, to “distract from his party’s chaos”.

Has PM opened door to Boris Johnson come back? – asks the front page of the Daily Express newspaper.
Rishi Sunak today opens the door to Boris Johnson’s political comeback and tells of his pride in their time working together.

The Prime Minister admits there are “well-documented differences” between them but revealed he talked to his former boss just a few months ago.

Ratcliffe is seeking to build a bigger and better stadium that would rival Wembley. 

The monarch had a meeting with his youngest son, Prince Harry, on Tuesday after the Duke of Sussex travelled from the US to the UK to visit his father.