Today’s news summary – Paper Talk
The missing submarine is the lead for a number of Tuesday’s front pages, as five people have been declared missing on a dive to see the wreck on the Titanic.
‘Race against time’ to save missing submarine
The Daily Mail says the sub could be 12,500ft down and running out of air. Whilst the Daily Express says rescuers are in a “race against time”, and The Sun claims the sub has air until Thursday.
British billionaire Hamish Harding is on the sub, according to the Telegraph – which carries a picture of Harding that he had posted to his social media two days before the dive. His cousin tells the paper she was “devastated” to learn he was on the sub. The Times says the 58-year-old entrepreneur had posted images from the mission to the shipwreck only hours before the international rescue began.
‘Shame on you’
Away from the missing sub-story, the Daily Mirror carries a snap of PM Sunak and former prime ministers Boris Johnson and David Cameron. The page combines three stories: Cameron’s evidence to the Covid inquiry on the UK’s pandemic preparedness, PM Sunak’s decision not to take part in the parliamentary vote on the Privileges Committee report into Boris Johnson, and the news that police may issue further fines in connection with a video showing a party at Tory HQ in December 2020.
The Guardian also leads with politics saying the Tory infighting over Boris Johnson has reached a new level of intensity, with his supporters being told to hang their heads in shame. The paper says Johnson now faces losing his parliamentary pass after what it calls a “fractious” debate on his conduct.
The Times reports Johnson wants a “ceasefire” with PM Sunak. A source close to Johnson tells the paper he wants to improve his relationship with the PM and has all but given up on making a political comeback before the next election. “But all of this is conditional on the Sunak government leaving him alone,” the source adds.
Another former PM is on the front page of the Daily Star. The paper leads on comments from Liz Truss who said the live stream set up by the paper to see if a head of lettuce could outlast her time premiership was “puerile.” The paper calls the former PM a “fun sponge” and even if she didn’t find the stunt funny, the rest of the world did.