Prince Andrew’s affair with a Chinese businessman accused of spying is the headline story in most morning papers. The Times revealed. The duke invited him. at Buckingham Palace on two separate occasions. The newspaper said she attended an official event at St James’s Palace and an event at Windsor Castle, as well as the Duke’s birthday party at his home, Royal Lodge. As well as his links to Prince Andrew, the paper says the man is believed to have built up a network of contacts “at the heart of the British establishment”.
The Daily Telegraph To quote Suella Braverman, who, as Home Secretary, barred the businessman from entering the UK. Along with other senior Conservatives, she is demanding that she not be named, arguing that revealing her identity “would have a detrimental effect on others.” The newspaper also reported that the security services had launched an investigation into money given to Prince Andrew by Chinese donors. “Let their frustration be known,” said a Buckingham Palace source, the paper said. There will be assistants. “pulling their hair out” The Daily Express says.
says the Daily Mirror. The king has been briefed. by MI5 at what it calls a “shameful security breach”, and is “really disappointed” by his brother’s latest scandal. The paper claims security chiefs are concerned the alleged spy could have given other agents access to Prince Andrew’s inner circle.
According to the Daily Mail, Duke knew Alleged spy for 10 years before cutting ties in 2022. Referring to other scandals in the Duke’s past, the newspaper’s editorial said: “If a man is judged by the company he keeps, Prince Andrew’s record is disastrous.” He said he had “ceased all contact” with the businessman after being advised by the government.
The Financial Times explains this week. Development data – showing the economy shrinking for the second month in a row – as a “blow” to Chancellor Rachel Reeves. The paper said the “locklister” data “underscores a fiscal challenge” for Labour, with the government far from achieving its “number one mission” of growing the economy.
The Telegraph has it. An interview With a leading neuroscientist. Professor Sir John Hardy, who first established the link between protein buildup in the brain and the onset of Alzheimer’s. He tells the paper that Alzheimer’s drugs “should be prescribed like statins” to prevent dementia, with routine blood tests to monitor protein levels before age 60.
A Church of England vicar who was invited to give a talk about the birth of Jesus at a primary school in Hampshire has apologized after being accused. “Ruining Christmas”. The Times reports that 10- and 11-year-old pupils at Leigh-on-the-Solent Junior School were left “in tears” after the doctor suggested it was their parents – and not Santa – who were at Christmas. Eats leftovers. Eve’s distraught mother and father complain to the teachers, who they say are doing everything they can to “bring back the magic”.