‘I’ll Bea there for you’ and ‘Boxing Day sales slump’
The Royal Family appeared on the front pages of Christmas Day, alongside photos of them attending a Christmas Day church service at Sandringham Manor, alongside King George III. It features news of Charles’ Christmas message. Catherine, Princess of Wales, is pictured waving to the crowd on the front page of the Times, while the main story focuses on Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ “mansion tax”, which tens of thousands of homeowners are said to have to pay due to faulty assessments. According to the article, properties could be overvalued by as much as £30,000, pushing homeowners over the £2 million threshold.
The Guardian leads with its own research; This research shows that less than one in 60 public sector workers share leave with their partner when they have a baby. Experts have criticized this as a “lost decade” of progress on parental rights. The King and Queen Camilla are pictured in the front on their way to church at Sandringham.
A teacher at a school in Oxfordshire said she was referred to the government’s counter-terrorism program after showing videos of US President Donald Trump in her politics class, the Daily Telegraph reported. The teacher said he initiated the complaints procedure against Henley College and received negotiated compensation of £2,000 after being effectively forced to resign, the newspaper reported. The school was quoted as saying: “Henley College does not comment on individual allegations or ongoing investigations.” Meanwhile, the newspaper chose to feature Princess Charlotte on its front page as she joined her family for the church ceremony.
The King’s Christmas message appears in the Daily Mirror, which says it speaks of “the shared values that unite us”. The newspaper points out that these words came at a time when tension was increasing both at home and abroad.
High Street stores will net £1bn less in Boxing Day than last year, the Daily Mail reports, citing Barclays Bank figures. The paper says rising household budgets on Friday will lead people to avoid sales “as consumer confidence collapses amid Rachel Reeves’ tax bombshells.” The Sandringham service also features on the front page, with the paper stating that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie have joined the Royal Family in Norfolk while their father remains in Windsor. The former prince was stripped of his titles after intense pressure over his links to pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing.
The Sun says Beatrice and Eugenie’s appearance “delighted well-wishers” of Beatrice and Eugenie’s “last minute” decision to join her sister with the rest of the Royal Family in Norfolk. The newspaper states that the “show of support” for the King took place almost a week after the US Department of Justice began releasing hundreds of thousands of documents related to the Epstein case, and Andrew was included in some of the files. Just because his name appears in the Epstein files does not mean there was wrongdoing.
A poll for the Independent shows more than a third of Labor supporters think the party would have a better chance of winning the next general election if Sir Keir Starmer was replaced. The paper states that when asked who would replace the prime minister, 19 per cent of Labor supporters backed Andy Burnham.
i Paper is ahead with this year’s survey analysis from Sir John Curtice, who says Britain has entered “uncharted territory” at a time when Labor faces the threat of Nigel Farage’s Reform Britain and Zack Polanski’s Green Party. The leading pollster told the newspaper that the votes for the two main parties were “record low”, meaning the UK’s political landscape had “never before looked more fragmented”.
The Daily Express is celebrating its Christmas appeal on its front page and says its readers have raised more than £100,000 for children’s wheelchair charity Whiz Kidz. According to the newspaper, the money raised will help purchase 20 personalized wheelchairs or other life-changing aids that will give children more freedom. The front page also features the Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte attending a church service on Christmas Day.
And finally, the Daily Star has decided to feature football royalty on its front page, especially David Beckham’s “family feuds”. While David, Victoria and the rest of the family celebrate Christmas by singing the Spice Girls’ hit song, Brooklyn Beckham is said to be staying away.
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