‘Billions wasted on hotels for migrants’ and ‘Trudeau, madly, deeply’
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“Billions of dollars ‘wasted’ on hotels for immigrants”, the Daily Mail’s top story in what it calls “the new asylum debacle”. A “bombshell” report by MPs criticizes the Home Office’s handling of the immigration system, describing it as a “clear failure”. The newspaper also touches on the romance between singer Katy Perry and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and notes that the couple “This is official!” puts the title.
The Telegraph also writes that “billions of dollars” were spent on “immigrant hotel chaos” following an investigation by the Home Affairs Committee. Citing the committee’s report, it says that the Home Office’s “faults allowed firms to extract ‘excessive profits’ from taxpayers.” The paper also includes an image of Perry and Trudeau holding hands, along with the headline “Trudeau, wildly, deeply.”
The Times also headlines that “billions of dollars have been lost” in “hotel deals for immigrants.” The report states that the Home Office “wasted” money “through incompetence” and that “a series of failures by the department” saw contracts with hotels “increase from £4.5bn to £15.3bn”. In global economic news, “the likelihood of an all-out trade war between the world’s largest economies has diminished” after the United States said a “framework” for a deal between the United States and China had been agreed, according to the newspaper.
The Guardian takes a different approach on many of today’s front pages, instead detailing warnings to Chancellor Rachel Reeves that the NHS needs “an extra £3bn to prevent rationed care”. Bosses say without “emergency funding” patients will “wait longer for treatment”, the newspaper reported. A photo of the “Epping sex offender” being paraded around Finsbury Park by two police officers took up most of the front page following his arrest on Sunday. Hadush Kebatu was mistakenly released from prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman while living in an asylum hotel.
“Concerned Wes” on the Metro’s front page carries comments from the health minister, who said there was a “growing sense of despair within the government” and “warned colleagues” that “restoring the public’s trust is running out”.
US officials “expect China to delay imposing comprehensive export controls on rare earths,” the Financial Times reported. This follows weekend talks in Kuala Lumpur that “raised hopes” that Donald Trump and Xi Jinping would agree to extend the trade truce. The FT also writes that two suspects in the Louvre robbery, including one at Charles de Gaulle airport, were arrested “after four thieves stole eight pieces of crown jewellery.”
The Daily Express headline reads: “Tax rises will cause food prices to rise”. Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s, M&S and Waitrose supermarkets are said to be among those “pleading” with Chancellor Rachel Reeves to exempt stores from a new business surtax. Minister of Justice David Lammy’s promise that “the sex attacker against immigrants will be deported ‘this week'” is also on the front of the newspaper.
The i Paper says union sources are “open to compromise on plans to give workers first-day protection against dismissal”. The newspaper adds that the government is “in talks” with unions and businesses about probation periods, and No 10 argues that “day one” rights would “provide financial security for those who do not have them”.
The Independent shares an “exclusive dispatch” from a “secret location” in Ukraine, titled “On the front lines with Zelensky’s lethal drone unit”. From a secret underground bunker in southern Zaporizhzhia, one of its reporters follows a team that deploys typhoon drones “to hunt and kill enemy soldiers in a deadly night attack.”
The Sun reported that Prince Andrew “demanded that Wills and Harry leave their former home, the Royal Lodge.” The paper says Andrew told the King he “needed one for himself and one for Fergie.”
The Daily Mirror publishes a story about a mother who was “killed with a weight-loss pill she bought on the black market for £20”. Karen McGonigal’s daughters have shared a warning to others about “beauty parlor injections”.
There will be a “sugary treat” on October 31, writes the Daily Star, adding that the weather forecast is “hell for Halloween”. The report states that a “400-mile diameter storm” will arrive with rain and “freezing temperatures.”
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