Job cut fears and PM 'rejects whole-life term reform'

A assortment of stories pb Saturday's papers. The Financial Times reports connected a survey which recovered UK businesses are cutting jobs astatine the fastest gait since the 2009 fiscal situation different than during the Covid pandemic, saying it has reignited fears of stagnation successful the British economy. The insubstantial says the information volition beryllium "a stroke to Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who spent the week astatine World Economic Forum successful Davos talking up the economy". It adds caller turmoil successful the markets is said to person convinced her to spell "faster and further" successful pursuit of growth.

Separate figures amusement determination has been a 50% emergence successful businesses successful "critical fiscal distress", according to the Daily Mail. The insubstantial quotes an insolvency specializer saying that caller rises successful employers' nationalist security and the minimum wage could beryllium the "last straw" for firms already struggling with debased user assurance and precocious borrowing costs.

The Times quotes Reeves saying Britain indispensable larn from US President Donald Trump's "positivity" if it is to crook the system round. In an interrogation with the paper, Reeves says Britain is "absolutely fantastic arsenic a country" but for excessively agelong has been "polite" and "apologetic" astir its ain potential. "We should beryllium shouting from the rooftops," she says.

A seasoned who mislaid his wintertime substance outgo pursuing October's fund is present relying connected the generosity of a alien from the US to vigor his home, the Daily Express reports. John Dockree, 73, tells the insubstantial helium and his woman had to huddle with their rescue dogs to support lukewarm and calls the alteration a "disgrace".

The Guardian reports that constabulary are locked successful a lengthy US ineligible process to get information from Google and Microsoft that would let them to spot what Axel Rudakubana was searching online earlier murdering 3 girls successful Southport. The insubstantial says Rudakubana's net history, which helium deleted soon earlier leaving location to transportation retired the attack, could clasp clues astir wherefore helium targeted young girls. It adds that detectives fearfulness it could beryllium years earlier they tin entree the data.

Downing Street says determination are nary plans for reforms to let whole-life sentences for teenage murderers similar Rudakubana, the Daily Telegraph reports. On Thursday, Rudakubana was handed a 52-year jailhouse word alternatively of a whole-life bid due to the fact that of his property astatine the clip of the killings, prompting calls for changes to let whole-life orders for under-18s successful exceptional circumstances. The insubstantial quotes a spokesperson for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer saying the authorities volition not prosecute the alteration due to the fact that it would interruption UN law, which does not let children to beryllium fixed the decease punishment oregon imprisoned without the anticipation of release.

The Daily Mirror says a lawyer for Christian Brueckner, who has been named by German prosecutors arsenic a fishy successful the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, has said helium whitethorn effort to fly Europe to debar charges successful the case. Brueckner is presently serving a seven-year condemnation for a abstracted rape conviction, but is expected to beryllium released successful September. Speaking to the paper, lawyer Philipp Marquort says: "Sometimes helium wants to enactment present successful Germany, sometimes helium wants to permission Europe. If I were him I would permission Europe and look for a authorities which doesn't extradite to Europe oregon Great Britain, possibly similar Suriname."

Real Madrid and England prima Jude Bellingham has been pictured for the archetypal clip with his caller girlfriend, US Instagram exemplary Ashlyn Castro, the Sun reports. The insubstantial says Castro met Bellingham's parents this week successful the Spanish superior and that the pursuing time the brace were seen unneurotic astatine lunch.

And the Daily Star says UFO experts person claimed that classified papers connected the JFK assassination acceptable to beryllium released by President Trump volition beryllium the beingness of aliens and their nexus to the killing.