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Newspaper headlines: ‘Tory War with Farage’ and Just Stop Oil ‘hypocrites’ – Subrang Safar: Your Journey Through Colors, Fashion, and Lifestyle
Friday’s front page featured several stories, including in The Times, which highlighted comments by David Gauke, a former Conservative justice secretary, about sending criminals to open prisons to reduce overcrowding. Gauque, who is reviewing sentencing policy for the new Labor government, says he is taking lessons from Spain, where reforms have reduced prison numbers and recidivism. At the top of the Times, Bruno Fernandes looks frustrated for Manchester United after their 2-0 Boxing Day defeat by Wolverhampton Wanderers.
On Friday, the Financial Times reported with U.S. and regional officials that Russian anti-aircraft fire may have brought down an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day. Accompanying the main story is a photo of a sniffer dog and emergency responders investigating near the crash site near Aktau. Elsewhere on the front page, Nigel Farage and Cammy Bedenock make claims about fake party membership figures.
The story of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and Tory leader Kimmy Bedenock exchanging political accusations is the main story in the i newspaper. On Boxing Day the two were “engaged in an unusual political battle over party membership numbers,” the newspaper said.
Nigel Farage is pictured holding a pint with some horses as the Reform leader joins a Boxing Day hunt in Elham, Kent, in a picture fronting the Daily Telegraph. The Telegraph also led the showdown between Farage and Tory leader Cammy Bedinock – with claims that an online membership tracker was “coded to automatically tick up” as the numbers trailed the Tories’ final tally. leaves
The Daily Express has branded campaign group Just Stop Oil “hypocrites” after it claims the £20 T-shirts have been shipped 4,000 miles away. In response, Just Stop Oil told the Express that “warfare-style mobilization” is needed to end fossil fuel use by 2030, so all T-shirts are jeopardizing our traditions, our heritage and our hard work. Can be made, shipped and sold without casting. Fight for rights”.
The Daily Mirror has the headline “Horror at Christmas” above a picture of police cars and tape outside the scene of a double stabbing in Milton Keynes. The newspaper says that two women were killed while another man and a youth were seriously injured in the incident. In other news, the paper depicts Helenworth’s final scenes in Coronation Street following the Christmas finale episode.
The Daily Mail’s front page photo of James Corden and Ruth Jones as Gavin and Stacey topped the Christmas Day TV ratings. The paper says the finale attracted an average of 12.3 million TV viewers – the biggest Christmas Day audience in more than a decade – and even “trumped the King”.
A woman has dominated the Guardian’s front page as she braves freezing conditions in the Firth of Clyde as people take part in a Boxing Day charity swim which raises funds for Ayrshire Cancer Support. According to the think tank Institute for Public Policy Research, the paper presents a story about the NHS “risking paralysis while waiting for vaso-straightening reforms”.
Finally, the Daily Star has a weather warning as its lead story, reporting that US hurricanes are set to send “wild storms and freezing temperatures” to the UK in early 2025.
