Newspaper headlines: Killer's 'cowardice' and Nigel Lawson dies at 91

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By BBC News
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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher applauding Nigel Lawson at the 1989 Conservative Party Conference

The death of Nigel Lawson is featured on several of the front pages this morning including the Daily Telegraph - which describes him as "Thatcher's tax slasher". It carries a tribute from its former editor Charles Moore, who says Lord Lawson's courageous reforms allowed Britain to flourish.

The Times pictures Lord Lawson holding a red box, and says he was arguably the most influential of Britain's post-war chancellors - a statement which is echoed in the I. The Daily Express remembers him as a "fearless giant of the free market".

The sentencing of Thomas Cashman for the murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool dominates the tabloids. Metro has the headline "gutless", pointing out that the gunman refused to face the girl's family in court.

The Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail describe his actions as "cowardice", and it is a similar sentiment in the Sun. The Daily Express says that Cashman got a sentencing of "life for Olivia's life".

The Guardian leads on its ongoing investigation into claims of sexual misconduct at the CBI - and says that the business group is now in "turmoil".

The paper has heard from more than a dozen women who either work at the organisation now, or have done in recent years. One has alleged that she was raped at a staff party on a boat on the Thames in 2019. The CBI has expanded its investigation into the allegations, and says it treats all matters of workplace conduct with the utmost seriousness.

The Times claims that the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, could announce as early as today that a deal has been struck to house migrants on a barge off the Dorset coast.

The paper says the vessel will able to accommodate more than 500 people - at a cost of more than £20,000 a day - and the plan will be challenged in the courts. The Home Office has said it is looking at a range of options to house migrants to move them out of expensive hotels.

The conviction of Phillip Schofield's brother for sexually abusing a teenage boy makes several of the front pages. Timothy Schofield, 54, was found guilty yesterday of 11 offences over a period of three years.

The Mail says the TV host was granted leave from work so he could cope with the court case out of the public eye. The Sun and the Mirror quote Phillip Schofield as saying the crimes were "despicable" and that he no longer has a brother.

And an investigation by the Telegraph has found that some burglars have been convicted of up to 27 break-ins before they are eventually jailed. Data from Freedom of Information requests in England and Wales also shows that criminals can be convicted of up to eight knife offences before being sent to prison. The Telegraph says the figures expose the "scale of soft justice".