Kemi Badenoch admitted the Conservatives “got it wrong” on immigration in his first “big speech” as party leader, says the Daily Telegraph. Speaking in Westminster, she accepted “responsibility” for the last government’s failure to reduce net migration and promised to “rebuild confidence” among voters, the paper says. An image of Angela Rayner meeting Pope Francis in the Vatican is also shown on the front page, the deputy prime minister’s first overseas trip since being appointed foreign affairs adviser to “boost his profile abroad”, says the paper.
Badenoch on Wednesday night revealed “a strict new Tory approach to immigration as she declared: Britain is not a hotel – it is our home”, writes the Mail. She said it was time to stop being “squeamish” about the negative impacts of mass immigration and act to stop it, in her first major speech as leader of the Conservative Party, the paper says.
The lead story in the Daily Mirror says that associates of the late Mohamed Al Fayed “are being investigated over claims they enabled his sexual abuse”. Police say 90 women have now come forward with allegations and one says she was “just 13 years old”, the paper says.
The Guardian reports that police believe Al Fayed “may have raped and abused more than 111 women over almost four decades and his youngest victim was just 13 years old”. The paper says the scale of the crime would make Al Fayed, who died last year aged 94, one of “Britain’s most notorious sex offenders, and raises urgent questions about how he got away with his crimes”. . The paper also shows an image of Lebanese people returning to the south after the ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel came into force on Wednesday.
Lord Cameron has revealed he has changed his mind and now backs a bill to legalize assisted dying, arguing it will help “significantly reduce human suffering”, according to the Times. Writing in the paper, the former prime minister says he previously opposed changing the law because he feared “vulnerable people could be pressured to hasten their own deaths”.
The chief probation inspector has issued a “stark warning” that the decision to release thousands of prisoners early will lead to a “serious increase in re-offending”, the i newspaper says. Martin Jones tells the paper that it is “inevitable” that some of the 2,800 prisoners released will commit “violent, sexual or domestic abuse offences”.
The Financial Times’ top story says French sovereign bonds and stocks fell on Wednesday on “intense” concerns that a dispute over a draft budget containing €60bn of cuts and tax rises could “bring down” Michel Barnier’s government. An image of Lebanese people returning to southern Beirut after the ceasefire appears on the front page.
“Concerned farmer” Olly Harrison has issued a “rallying call on behalf of the industry”, reports the Daily Express. He is urging the government not to “steal our children’s future” under what the paper calls the “inheritance tax threat”.
The hunt is on for a National Lottery winner “who doesn’t even know he’s won a £177m fortune”, reports the Metro. The paper says one ticket won the jackpot in Tuesday’s EuroMillions draw.
ITV’s This Mornings is facing a “major shake-up” under new leadership “after long-time stalwart Martin Frizell stepped down”, says The Sun.
“Swathes of Britain” are on flood alert, The Daily Star says, after Storm Conall “dumped us with half a month’s worth of rain” in one day. “It’s a great day to be black,” says the headline.
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