“Fire havoc” is how the Financial Times describes the situation in Europe. It also carries an image of the same child that appears in the Mirror, “outside his house as a wildfire burns” in a village not far from Athens. The business paper’s main story is Jaguar Land Rover-owner Tata’s newly announced plan to build its flagship electric car battery factory in Somerset, south-west England. “Ministers see the factory as a must-win,” the paper reports.
Sources suggest the UK has moved past its technical recession with first-quarter growth surpassing that of the US and Eurozone, a positive development for Rishi Sunak.