The front page of the Times reports that Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to set out a “winter fuel U-turn” in her spending review on 11 June. It says the payment will be restored and then clawed back “from millions of better-off pensioners through higher tax bills”. The paper also features an image of Queen Camilla shaking hands with “moss people” at Canary Wharf.
There are fears of “chaos” over the return of winter fuel payments writes the Guardian. It reports the bereaved families of dead pensioners could be pursued by tax officials to recover the sums in a potential new Treasury scheme. The full details of the scheme have not yet been announced.
“Farage backs call for full U-turn to help OAPs” the Daily Express headlines on the winter fuel payments. Also from the Express, the Queen is pictured holding a bunch of flowers, with the caption “Queen of smiles for British flower week”.
The i Paper is another to feature the winter fuel cuts reversal as its top story, reporting that 1.3m more people are likely to receive the payment this year. In an exclusive, it reports the chancellor has been “given £27,000 donation from lobbying firm linked to Thames Water bidder”. A Labour Party spokesperson said: “All necessary declarations have been made, in line with the rules.”
The Mail’s headline reads “Battle lines drawn over immigration” and features a literal dotted line between blocks of texts laying out the opposing policies from Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch on cutting migration numbers.
The Telegraph reports that Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been “forced to drop net zero cuts” she had been considering for the spending review next week, with Energy Security Secretary Ed Miliband fending off cuts to the £13.2 billion warm homes plan.
The Sun also covers the story about weight-loss jabs, with warnings made to women about potential side effects of the medication.
The Financial Times reports that “Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ will swell US debt by $2.4tn (£1.1tn)”.
Under the headline “Glee School Meals”, the Daily Mirror reports 500,000 more school children will receive free school meals – an issue the paper has campaigned on
The Daily Star has an “ecclesiastical exclusive”: there’s a “Holy Grail hunt in UK” as it says the cup “supped by Jesus is secretly buried in St Albans, citing a documentary maker.
