Paper review: Gove quits 'sinking ship' and 'shock exit rocks Tories'

Michae wasl first elected MP for Surrey Heath in 2005, is understood to have made the decision in the last couple of days.

A number of the papers go big on Housing Secretary Michael Gove's decision to leave politics at the general election.

The Times says the number of Tory MPs intending to stand down is now higher than it was before Labour's 1997 landslide - in which the party won a majority of 179 seats.

According to the Daily Telegraph Mr Gove's decision follows recent polling in his Surrey Heath constituency, which show his hopes of re-election are on a knife edge.

Mr Gove's "shock exit" has "rocked Conservativism" according to the front of the Daily Express.

The Daily Mirror continues the theme with its front page put much more bluntly saying Mr Gove is leaving "Sunak's sinking ship".

In other general election news Labour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves makes a direct appeal to Daily Mail readers telling them she will never play "fast and loose" with their money.

Moving to more news making headlines, the Guardian leads with the ICJ ruling ordering Israel to halt its offensive in the southern Gazan city of Rafah. The paper says the move by the UN's top court is by far the most significant intervention it has made in the conflict so far - and that it will increase pressure on the US and the UK to bring their influence to bear on Israel.

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