Today’s news summary – Paper Talk
Thursday’s front pages have a variety of stories with no single story dominating, but there are several different takes on the cost of living crisis featuring on many front pages.
Cost of living crisis
The Times says No 10 is resisting the pressure for a windfall tax on energy companies on the grounds that it would be “ideologically unconservative.”
The Daily Express leads with campaigners who told the paper that pensioners are in need of urgent help as the cost of living is now rising three times as fast as the state pension.
A police chief has said the cost of living crisis will trigger an increase in crime and said officers should use “discretion” when deciding to prosecute people who steal food, the Guardian reports.
The poorest households are bearing the brunt of inflation say experts for the Daily Mirror. The paper says while inflation has soared overall by 9 per cent for the “hard up” the figure was 10.9 per cent as their living costs have risen faster than anyone else.
The former Conservative Chancellor Lord Clarke tells the Independent website Mr Sunak’s measures so far are failing to help the poor while rewarding the better-off.
The Financial Times leads with the chancellor’s warning of a “tough” few months ahead after new figures put the UK inflation among the highest of any advanced economy in the world.
‘Disastrous’
The Sun continues its widespread coverage of the libel trial against Coleen Rooney. The paper says the footballer Jamie Vardy and his wife Rebekah are planning to move to the US following the end of the trial. The paper says Mrs Vardy’s case is “disastrous” and the couple wants to leave the UK whatever the outcome.
The i’s front page leads with the news MPs have blocked an inquiry into alleged rapists working in Parliament.