Many of Tuesday’s front pages look ahead to the speech by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at the Labour conference today. The Times says he will announce plans “root out” benefit fraudsters by allowing investigators to access suspects’ bank details.
”Victory for truth and justice” is the headline in the Daily Mirror. The paper says Sir Keir will use his speech to vow to introduce a Hillsborough Law to ensure victims of major tragedies are given greater powers, including legal aid to take on officials.
The Guardian says Sir Keir will attempt to “cast off the gloom that has dominated his early days in power”. Sources are quoted in the paper as saying the government could use the Budget to change the way its five-year debt rule is assessed as it seeks to lift restrictions on capital spending.
Sir Keir will attempt to “convince” his party and the country to put up with “short-term” financial pain by insisting there is “light at the end of the tunnel”, the Daily Telegraph reports. Also featured is a photograph of major Labour donor Lord Waheed Alli in Liverpool, following a row over his donations to senior party figures.
“So who paid for YOUR specs, Lord Alli” is the accompanying headline to the same image in the Daily Mail. It also reports comments from the general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), Mick Lynch, allegedly vowing to “seize control” of the economy now Labour is in power.
Stories reflecting on the chancellor’s party conference speech make a number of front pages. The Financial Times says Rachel Reeves’s address “struck a more optimistic note” and “paved the way for higher government capital spending”.
The chancellor is considering cuts to benefits spending in order to free up funding to get people back into work, according to the i. Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall is quoted as telling a conference fringe event that ministers are preparing to pitch “really big reforms” on job centres and welfare.
Outside of the conference, the Express spoke to pensioners “furious” that a vote on the winter fuel payment cuts has been delayed. The non-binding vote had been expected on Monday.
A two-fold rise in e-bike seizures by police is the top story for the Metro. The paper says threats to pedestrians and “links to vicious street crimes” are behind the increase.
The Daily Star leads on the heavy rain and flash flooding that have battered parts of England and Wales this week, alongside an image of a sunken car dubbed “Booty McBootface”.
The Sun leads with a photograph of Strictly Come Dancing star Nick Knowles wearing a sling after injuring his arm. The paper says he will find out this morning if he can dance in Saturday’s show.
