Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been accused of “wallowing in sleaze” by changing parliament’s anti-corruption rules to save Conservative MP Owen Paterson from being suspended, reports the Metro. You can read more about this story here.
In the Metro, Boris Johnson’s speech at COP26 features. The prime minister hailed the pact made by 110 nations at the climate summit in Glasgow.
How some of the attendees arrived in Glasgow for COP26 is the focus of the Metro’s front page. According to the newspaper, the likes of Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates flew in on private jets, while US President Joe Biden was accompanied by a 26-car motorcade.
Dozens of rail passengers have had a miraculous escape after two passenger trains collided in a tunnel, writes the Metro. You can read more about this story here.
France’s seizure of a British trawler makes the front of Metro in what the paper describes as a “new post-Brexit trade war”.
The chancellor has kept “Britain’s economic taps running with the biggest beer tax cut for 50 years”, the Metro reports.
The Metro leads on how Chancellor Rishi Sunak hopes to usher in a “new age of optimism” as he unveils his post-pandemic budget.
Boris Johnson has been accused of “losing the plot” a week before COP26, the Metro reports, as the prime minister told an audience of children: “Recycling isn’t the answer.”
The paper covers the clash between Marcus Rashford and Rishi Sunak, after the footballer urged the chancellor to extend the temporary holiday food scheme beyond the Christmas break.
Metro reports on Ali Harbi Ali’s alleged two year plot to kill an MP, which was described to a court after he was charged with the murder of Sir David Amess.