Chancellor Rachel Reeves told a crowd in Washington the UK was ready to cut tariffs on US car imports, saying “we are not going to rush a deal”, the Financial Times reports. This comes ahead of the chancellor meeting her American counterpart, Scott Bessent, and after a sharp rise in global markets with hopes tied to the US-China trade war winding down. Elsewhere on the FT’s front page, “Maga Catholics” pin their faith on a “Trump-like pope” and the US commerce secretary’s son strikes a Bitcoin deal.
The Guardian’s front page headlines on the latest from Ukraine, with US President Donald Trump warning Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that “Crimea is lost”. It remains “unclear how Ukraine and its European allies, meeting in London yesterday, would respond to a plan largely constructed in their absence”, the paper writes. Discussions about a potential scheme to let young Europeans work in the UK run alongside a proposal by the Liberal Democrats to ban “noisy phone users” from public transport on the front page.
A grinning Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, holding Sidney the dog on a tight lead with the caption “I’ve got a fighting chance to be PM” makes the top picture slot of The Daily Telegraph. It runs in parallel to the main headline that Trump has said Zelensky is “to blame for no peace” following his refusal to concede Crimea to Russia. Lower down, Digital Secretary Peter Kyle tells the Telegraph he is examining the online equivalent of a TV watershed.
Trump’s Ukraine comments are in the top slot for The Times too, with the paper headlining on the US president saying Zelensky is the “key obstacle” to peace. Reeves’ tariff proposals are also highlighted and the Times celebrates the seventh birthday of Prince Louis with a portrait captioned “gappy birthday”.
“Back my peace or lose all of Ukraine” the Daily Mail quotes Trump as saying and calls the comments to Zelensky an “ultimatum”. Alongside this story, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex stroll on a city break and the paper makes the same pun as The Times with the gap-toothed birthday portrait.
Metro’s front page despairs at “scam pain supernova”, saying Oasis fans have lost out on over £2m in ticket fraud. As the band make their return to stages around the world for the first time in 16 years, older fans are the main victims of scams, it reports.
The Daily Star riffs on the global Oasis hit Wonderwall with “Plunder-haul!” as it shares the news of ticket scams, calling them “Definitely Shady” – a spin on the Gallagher brothers’ Definitely Maybe. A “bot ban” for Elon Musk in China is also featured.
For the Daily Mirror, it’s the story of England cricketer-turned-TV presenter Andrew Flintoff’s recovery from a “high-speed crash” that “almost killed him” which makes the headlines. Above pictures of the injured star is a large image of the Pope’s body lying in state in the Vatican.
“He doesn’t have the balls” exclaims the Daily Express, a comment directed at Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer by opposition leader Kemi Badenoch. The insult was thrown at the Labour leader in the Commons after Sir Keir’s “shifting views” on gender, the Express writes. The birthday grin on Prince Louis also pops up atop the paper.
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