‘Golden ticket asylum rights to end’ and ‘Pay back the money, Mr Mone’
Several papers are leading with news that a company linked to peer Baroness Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman has been ordered to pay £122m in damages after a judge ruled it had breached a government contract for the supply of personal protective equipment during the Covid pandemic. The Metro describes the couple’s reaction to the verdict as “Mone Mone Mone”.
“Cough up Covid £122m” the Sun demands. It also reports a call from Chancellor Rachel Reeves for Lady Mone to “quit the House of Lords”.
“Strip her of the title” is the headline on the Daily Mirror, under a picture of the baroness.
“Baroness bra told: hand back our £122m” the Daily Mail declares. It notes she was ennobled by then-Prime Minister David Cameron in 2015.
“Pay back the money, Mr Mone,” says the Daily Star. It also has Health Secretary Wes Streeting comparing himself to an onion, making reference to the paper’s 2022 campaign questioning which would last longer, a lettuce or then-Prime Minister Liz Truss, in her job. Streeting told the paper he had “many layers”.
“Home Office in fresh push for back door into Apple user data” is the main headline on the Financial Times. The Home Office has made the second such order of the year to US-based Apple, according to sources speaking to the paper, which it says was compared to “Chinese state surveillance” by the Trump administration.
The Guardian reports on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s comments that the “golden ticket” of “resettlement and family union rights” of people granted asylum will not continue. It also features a tribute to the late conservationist Dame Jane Goodall.
“Refugees stripped of automatic right to have families join them in UK” is the i Paper’s leading story. “Downing Street says it is ‘unfair’ that under the current rules small boat migrants granted asylum enjoy greater rights than those arriving through legal routes,” the paper reports.
“Automatic rights for refugees to be scrapped” the Times reports. In a separate story, it says Britain “blew” £1bn “turning off turbines during high winds”.
A judge’s remarks at the sentencing of a gang of paedophiles in the north of England makes the headline of the Daily Express. It reports the judge as saying rape victims in Rochdale were “let down by those whose job it was to protect them”.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch’s plans to “rip up” the UK’s “flagship climate change law” leads the Daily Telegraph. “We want to leave a cleaner environment for our children, but not by bankrupting the country,” she is quoted as saying.
The Financial Times is among those leading on the scandal involving PPE Medpro over the supply of medical equipment during the pandemic. The paper says the government could struggle to recoup the £122m payment ordered by the court, as the company’s latest accounts show net assets of £666,000.
The Mail says Scotland Yard has been left reeling by a new scandal after the BBC’s investigation into racism and sexism in Britian’s biggest police force. Sir Mark Rowley said the officers responsible would be put on a path to “likely dismissal”.
The Daily Express leads on the sentencing of the Rochdale grooming gang ringleader, Mohammed Zahid, to 35 years in prison. It describes the “fury” of an ex-Manchester police detective at the long wait for justice. Writing to the paper, a solicitor compares the grooming gangs to “mafia organisations”.
The i Paper highlights the government’s plans to remove the automatic right of refugees to bring family members to the UK once they have been granted asylum. A government source tells the paper the Home Office is prepared to be “radical” when it comes to stopping small boats. The Daily Telegraph also quotes an anonymous government source as saying the UK has been “overly generous” and wants to reduce “pull factors” for asylum seekers.
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Jane Goodall has been remembered for her environmental advocacy and “groundbreaking” work on primates
And several papers feature photographs of the late Dame Jane Goodall. The Times calls her work with chimpanzees “groundbreaking”.
In its obituary, The Guardian describes her a “pioneer”, not just for her work with primates but for pursuing science as a woman in the 1960s. In its editorial column, the Express says the natural world has lost one of its most tenacious and effective defenders.
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