Newspaper headlines: 'Patients in danger' and Starmer's 'dirty deal'
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Sir Keir Starmer's proposals to tackle illegal immigration have, according to the Guardian, external, been criticised by both the left and the right.
The paper says Labour's plan to strike a deal with the European Union prompted a day of bitter exchanges with the prime minister and home secretary. But it says some criticism also came from Labour MPs, who accused Sir Keir of appealing to anti-migrant sentiments.
The president of the TUC union, Matt Wrack, told the paper that the Labour leader was in danger of "pandering to right-wing Tory rhetoric".
The Daily Express quotes, external Home Secretary Suella Braverman on its front page, calling Sir Keir's plans a "dirty deal". Ms Braverman said Labour's proposals risked surrendering Britain's Brexit freedoms and would "hand Brussels the key to the UK's immigration system".
In an interview in the Times, external, the UK's top emergency doctor says hospitals are "making people sicker" because of long delays in A&E. Adrian Boyle, the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, told the paper that long waiting times were particularly bad for older people, increasing risks of a fall or missed medication. He said it was "very sad" that patients aged over 80 spent an average of 15 hours waiting for a hospital bed.
The Department of Health and Social Care says it is creating 5,000 extra hospital beds.
According to the Daily Telegraph,, external a rapid rise in measles cases means some children may have to self-isolate for three weeks if a pupil is infected at their school. A number of councils in and around London have said to have written to warn parents, after modelling suggested that 160,000 cases of the potentially fatal infection could occur in the capital alone.
The rise in the disease is being blamed on the current low take-up of the single MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) jab, which fell during the Covid crisis.
The Daily Mirror calls, external the government's refusal on Thursday to rule out axing the Manchester leg of HS2 "the final betrayal". It said the "chaotic" rail project was now mired in fresh turmoil. Ministers insist they are committed to HS2 but are looking at the best interests of passengers.
The Sun says, external the case against a man suspected of killing Madeleine McCann is beginning to "fall apart". A former friend of the main suspect, Christian Bruechner, is said to be on the verge of withdrawing help. The witness had given police a damning statement against the man they believe is behind the three-year-old's disappearance in 2007.
And the Times, external, the Guardian, external and the Daily Express, external all carry the results of a study, led by King's College London, which suggests British parents no longer think children should be taught to do as they are told.
The Times says, external that the proportion of Britons who felt that children should be taught to be obedient fell from 42% in 1990, to 12% now. Instead - the paper suggested - independence, hard work and imagination were valued higher.
The Guardian quotes the study's lead author, Prof Bobby Duffy as saying that the results reflected a cultural shift towards self-expression and allowing people to be themselves.
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