Newspaper headlines: 'Monster of the Met' and 'slapdown for Sturgeon'

Almost all of Tuesday's front pages feature the Met Police officer David Carrick who plead guilty to dozens of sexual offences. "Just how did police miss serial rapist in its ranks?" asks the Daily Express. The Sun describes him as a "monster of the Met", while the Daily Mirror says the Met had nine chances to stop him but failed to act. "Just how many more monsters in uniform?" asks the Daily Mail.

The Daily Telegraph says the Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley will be under particular pressure because - as the former assistant commissioner in charge of specialist operations - he was, in effect, Carrick's boss when some of his offending was taking place. In an editorial, the Mirror says official apologies and admissions of failures are not enough. The paper says those paid to uphold the law must come up with a foolproof system to avoid recruiting "villains", and catch offenders in uniform.

Former home secretary Priti Patel tells the Express that a change of law is needed to help clean up the Met. An editorial in the Sun describes Scotland Yard as a "broken force which betrays Londoners and shames Britain".

Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has apologised for the force's failings over David Carrick

Elsewhere, the Telegraph describes the UK government's decision to block Scotland's law on gender recognition as unprecedented, while the Guardian says Scottish ministers will mount a legal challenge. The i newspaper says the dispute will only deepen the rift between the two governments, but argues that this isn't likely to increase support for independence in Scotland.

In an editorial, the Times says Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was right to block the Holyrood law because it effectively extends the new Scottish right of gender-self identification to the rest of the UK, by the backdoor, and that is unacceptable. The Mail agrees, describing Mr Sunak's decision as "an act of political courage that will be applauded on both sides of the border".

Supporters of Scotland's gender recognition bill protested in Edinburgh last month

Writing in the Times, Education Secretary Gillian Keagan accuses teachers of "turning their backs" on children after members of the National Education Union (NEU) voted to stage strikes in England and Wales. The paper says ministers are concerned that the walk-outs will disrupt education and harm the economy, because parents will have to stay off work. But the union has warned that teachers are leaving the profession in droves, while the government seems "unbothered about the conditions they are allowing schools and colleges to slide into".

The Financial Times says billions of pounds in tax is being uncollected because more than 2,000 HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) staff have been transferred to work on Brexit and Covid schemes. The paper says Treasury Minister Victoria Atkins gave the details in a response to questions from the Liberal Democrats. She revealed that the amount of tax recovered through compliance had fallen by about £6bn in recent years.

And finally, some of the papers report that Boris Johnson is expected to earn about £6m for his memoir. The Express says the book will be a sensational expose, although so far it has no title or publication date. The Mirror says the book should be found in the fiction section of bookshops.