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The Daily Telegraph leads on the delayed House of Lords debate on the Chagos deal. The paper notes the Conservatives’ warning that the deal would violate a 60-year treaty with the US, and that both countries have been in talks since late last year about updating the agreement. The Daily Mail also leads on the story; it says the decision raises hope of the government’s fifteenth U-turn.
The reaction to US President Donald Trump claiming Nato troops stayed away from the front line in Afghanistan is the main story in The Daily Mirror. “Say sorry” reads its headline. The Daily Express says there are “457 tragic reasons” why Trump is wrong, in reference to the number of British military personnel killed in the conflict.
The Times’s front page carries a warning from the government’s work tsar, Alan Milburn, who says a generation of young people with what he calls “normal” mental health conditions are being written off work for a life on benefits. Speaking to the paper, Milburn said the nearly one million young people out of work, education or training was a “moral crisis”.
The i Paper leads on the potential return of Labour’s Andy Burnham to Parliament. The paper describes the Greater Manchester mayor as the prime minister’s “rival” because he’s expected to launch a leadership challenge if he were to become an MP by winning the Gorton and Denton by-election. The report notes that Labour’s far left fears the Health Secretary Wes Streeting, would be most likely to challenge Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership if Burnham doesn’t return to Parliament.
Confusion about the future of Greenland led to a surge in gold prices, according to the Financial Times. Its report says the metal is set for its best week in almost two decades, after investors rushed to safe alternatives to the dollar because of concerns over what it calls “erratic US policymaking”.
The Sun says Brooklyn Beckham’s wife Nicola Peltz gave him an ultimatum after feeling upstaged by his mother, Victoria, at their wedding. “It’s her or me” reads its headline.
