Today’s news summary – Paper Talk
Several of Monday’s front pages report on the leaked video showing Conservative Party workers dancing at their own social gathering during the second Covid lockdown at the end of 2020.
Banks have been told to do more to help homeowners with the cost of living as an interest rate rise looms.
‘Guilty party’
The front page of the Daily Mirror says “Guilty party” alongside a still image from the “sickening” footage of Tory staff at a lockdown party. The paper quotes a relative of a Covid victim, who accuses the staffers of “dancing on the graves of those who died.”
The Guardian says PM Rishi Sunak’s attempts to “move on from the legacy of Boris Johnson’s chaotic premiership have suffered a further setback,” after Scotland Yard said it was “considering” the video. Tory MP Tobias Ellwood, tells the Independent that the PM should turn a “mini-crisis” into a major opportunity beginning with “an overhaul of his cabinet.” He also calls for him to be “less fearful of right-wing backlash.”
‘Mortgage crisis’
The Mail leads with a plea in what it calls “Britain’s mortgage crisis.” Experts urge the Bank of England to “spare struggling households” by pausing what it expects to be the thirteenth consecutive rise in interest rates. The Telegraph predicts they will go up by a quarter of a percentage point on Thursday. The Daily Express says: “Taxpayer will not foot bill for mortgage bailout.”