The headline in the Daily Express comes from campaigners who have warned that Labour’s social care reforms will take years and are a “cop-out”. An independent commission is not due to make recommendations until 2028 and activist Dennis Reid claimed it was a “recipe for delay”. Elsewhere, the newspaper printed a photo of snowfall around Stonehenge and wrote that a snow warning has been issued as “Arctic freeze grips Britain”.
The Daily Mail says “teen darts ace” Luke Littler is expected to “earn £50million in his career”, adding that the 17-year-old has already earned “£3million in awards and deals”. Already happened. Before Littler competed in the World Darts Championship final on Friday night, the newspaper quoted an analyst as saying: “It’s going to be even bigger. He’s here to stay.”
The Daily Telegraph reports that the NHS is “prioritizing asylum seekers over the general public despite increasing waiting times”. The newspaper says policies at trusts across the country allow migrants, including unsuccessful asylum seekers, to “skip the queue and be seen by the NHS within 15 minutes”. The paper quotes cancer expert Dr. Karol Sikora, who said: “The only priority in health care should be the urgency of the medical need, especially in the emergency department.”
Citing a former spy, the Daily Mail says Sir Keir Starmer is “as guilty as anyone else” for failures to tackle grooming gangs. As pressure mounted on the government to hold a public inquiry into the scandal, whistleblower Maggie Oliver said she had “no confidence” in the Prime Minister’s “willingness to get to the truth”, the newspaper says.
Sir Keir’s efforts to start the year by focusing on the NHS and other domestic priorities “risk being derailed by attacks from Donald Trump and his billionaire backer Elon Musk”, writes the Times. The President-elect said the British government had made a “huge mistake” by imposing an unexpected tax increase on North Sea oil and gas after a US company announced it would “cease all production at its British operations by December 2029”. . The newspaper said Downing Street had decided not to respond directly to Trump and Musk’s latest criticisms.
The i newspaper says a “major poll” shows Prime Minister Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party will lose significant support unless Labor can “target voters concerned about immigration”.
FT Weekend reports that “City minister Tulip Siddiq was recently given an apartment in central London by a man linked to the party of the ousted Bangladeshi government”. The newspaper writes that Siddiq, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, “was handed a two-bedroom flat near King’s Cross in 2004 without payment, according to previously unreported Land Registry filings”. A spokesperson for the minister said: “Any suggestion that Tulip Siddiqui’s ownership of this property, or any other property, is in any way linked to her support of the Awami League would be clearly false.”
The headline in the Daily Star read “Secretary of State for the Bleeding Obvious”, reporting that Health Secretary Wes Streeting said “we should turn on the heating to stay warm” as Britain was snowed in.
And The Sun says Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury have “rekindled” their relationship after sharing a photo of the Love Island pair, both 25, “kissing” at a Hogmanay party. Are.
