Newspaper headlines: 'PM failing on climate' and 'NHS on the brink'

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By BBC News
Staff

Striking doctors are "harming patients" are the words emblazoned across the front of The Daily Mail. It says Health Secretary Steve Barclay has used an article in the paper to issue "his strongest rebuke yet", as junior doctors in England prepare to strike for a fifth time in a dispute over pay.

The Daily Telegraph reports on figures suggesting that walkouts by junior doctors have cost the NHS around £1 billion so far. The health secretary blames the strikes for diverting "significant amounts of money" away from front-line services.

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The health secretary has taken aim at striking junior doctors

The Times says strikes are pushing the NHS to the brink. It says the number of NHS cancellations due to industrial action is approaching one million, as waiting lists hit a record high. The co-chairmen of the British Medical Association's junior doctors' committee tell the paper that the union's "door remains open for talks at any time".

The Daily Express says ministers fear a surge in small boats reaching the UK "in the coming weeks", as the number of migrants crossing the Channel passes 100,000. Critics tell the paper the figure shows that people-smuggling gangs have been "making fools" of the UK since the small boats' crisis began in 2018.

"Guess who had Shell shares" is the Daily Mirror's headline. It reports that Conservative MP Theresa Villiers owned £70,000 worth of shares in the oil giant, while she was the environment secretary - from July 2019 to February 2020 - but didn't declare her link until last month. Ms Villiers has apologised for the mistake.

According to the i, a "mortgage rates war" has begun as 13 lenders cut their prices. But experts tell the paper there will be no return to "very low rates".

And The Sun leads with what it calls Harry Kane's "Bayern transfer saga". The paper says the Spurs' striker's "mega-money move" to the German side is now "in his hans".