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Newspaper headlines: ‘Heckle and hide’ and Labour ‘split’ on four-day week
Difficult encounters for Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn on the campaign trail are among the election stories that make Thursday’s front pages. The prime minister faced hecklers on his travels, while the Labour leader was accused of hiding when they both came face to face with the British public, reports the Metro under the headline “Heckle and hide”.
For the Times, Wednesday was a “chaotic” day of campaigning for Labour. The party’s leadership appeared to be “split” over whether NHS staff would be included in its plans for a four-day working week and Mr Corbyn “stumbled” over his position on the union, says the paper.
The Daily Mail reports the Labour leader was branded “naive to the point of being dangerous” for questioning the killing of the world’s most wanted men. Mr Corbyn had said arresting Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi would have been “the right thing to do” – but his comments were said to have provoked “ridicule” from military and security experts.
The Conservatives offered an electoral pact to Nigel Farage aimed at getting the Brexit Party to target just 40 key seats, the Daily Telegraph reports. Boris Johnson offered to put up “paper candidates” in these Labour-held constituencies in return for the Brexit Party not standing in other seats the Tories hope to win, according to the paper. However, Mr Farage is said to have turned the deal down.
The i leads on news that the estranged wife of a former Tory MP is standing for election in his seat. Kate Griffiths, who was selected as the Conservative candidate for Burton, has said she is divorcing her husband, Andrew, who sent thousands of sexual messages to two women.
Elsewhere, Boris Johnson vowed to unleash Britain’s “full potential” after Brexit during his first major election campaign speech, reports the Daily Express. The prime minister also warned the country would wake up to a “nightmare” on Friday 13 December if Jeremy Corbyn was elected into power and “propped up” by Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon.
Stepping away from the election, the Daily Mirror has released a special “climate issue”. Its front page features a photo of baby Layton, warning that he is only hours old but the climate crisis threatens his future. “Give me a world I can grow up in”, the paper’s front-page headline declares.
The Sun reports that child killer Ian Huntley was sent to solitary confinement twice within days after a “meltdown” at prison officers. A source told the paper: “He was sobbing and looks like a man with no fight left.”
Some of the UK’s most popular health websites are sharing people’s sensitive data with dozens of global companies, according to a Financial Times investigation. The paper says 79% of sites dropped “cookies” – code embedded in web browsers allowing third-party companies to track people around the internet.
And finally, Claude Littner, Sir Alan Sugar’s sidekick on The Apprentice, has “outraged” nurses by telling them to work harder, reports the Daily Star.
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