The Daily Express’s headline comes from campaigners who warn Labour’s social security reforms will take years and are a “cop-out”. The independent commission will not make its recommendations until 2028, which campaigner Dennis Reed claimed amounted to a “recipe for delay”. Elsewhere, the newspaper published images of snow falling around Stonehenge and wrote that a snowfall warning had been issued as “Arctic freeze hits Britain”.
The Daily Mail says “teenage darts ace” Luke Littler is expected to “earn £50m during his career”, adding that the 17-year-old has already earned “£300m” Thousands of pounds in bonuses and deals”. Ahead of Littler’s appearance in Friday night’s World Darts Championship final, the newspaper quoted an analyst as saying: “This is only going to get bigger. He’s here to stay.”
The Telegraph reports that the NHS is “prioritizing asylum seekers over the general public despite soaring waiting times”. The newspaper said trusts across the country have policies that allow migrants, including failed asylum seekers, to “skip queues and be seen by the NHS within 15 minutes”. The newspaper quoted cancer expert Dr. Karol Sikora as saying: “The only priority in health care should be the urgency of medical need, especially in emergency departments.”
Sir Keir Starmer is “as guilty as anyone” for failing to crack down on grooming gangs, the Daily Mail quoted a former detective as saying. The newspaper said that as pressure grew on the government to launch a public inquiry into the scandal, whistleblower Maggie Oliver said she had “no confidence” in the Prime Minister’s “desire to know the truth”.
The Times writes that Sir Keir has started the new year with a focus on the NHS and other domestic priorities, but that effort “faces challenges from Donald Trump and his billionaire backer Elon.” “The risk of being derailed by Musk’s attacks.” The president-elect said the UK government had made a “very big mistake” by raising windfall profits taxes on North Sea oil and gas after a US company announced it would “cease all production from its UK operations by December 2029”. The newspaper added that Downing Street had chosen not to respond directly to the latest criticism from Trump and Musk.
The i newspaper said a “major survey” showed that unless Labor could “target voters concerned about immigration”, the Prime Minister would lose important support from Nigel Farage’s Reform Party.
The Financial Times reported over the weekend that “a person with links to a party in the recently ousted Bangladeshi government has offered a central London apartment to Municipality Minister Tulip Siddiq”. The newspaper wrote that Finance Minister for the Economy Siddiq “obtained a two-bedroom apartment near King’s Cross in 2004 without paying”, according to previously unreported Land Registry documents. The minister’s spokesman said: “Any suggestion that Tulip Siddique’s ownership of this or any other property has any connection with Awami League is absolutely false.”
The Daily Star headline read “Bleeding Secretary of State” and reported that as ice and snow hit the UK, Health Secretary Wes Streeting said “we should turn on the heating to stay warm”.
The Sun claims Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury are hoping to “rekindle” their relationship and shared a photo of the Love Island couple “kissing” at a New Year’s Eve party, where the pair both Is 25 years old.
