Newspaper review: Banks in 'free speech' row and UK inflation falls

"Banks told to respect escaped speech" is the Times' header connected the fallout from Nigel Farage having his relationship closed astatine Coutts, which helium suggests was owed to his governmental views. A papers enactment unneurotic by the slope reviewing his suitability arsenic a lawsuit mentioned Brexit and his alleged links to Russia, helium has said. "Ministers are considering making escaped code protections a information of permits" pursuing the row, the insubstantial writes. There is besides a study astir ostentation falling successful the UK.

The Daily Mail says Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is "planning an exigency instrumentality change" implicit the row, and banks recovered to "not support the escaped code of their customers could adjacent suffer their licence". A sketch by the paper's cartoonist, Jonathan Pugh, depicts idiosyncratic attempting to retreat wealth from an ATM machine, with the surface showing a warning: "Sorry. Incorrect governmental views. Try again."

For a 2nd consecutive day, the Daily Telegraph has the communicative astir Mr Farage's finances beforehand and centre. Thursday's variation says NatWest CEO Dame Alison Rose is "under pressure" pursuing the determination by Coutts - a subsidiary of NatWest - to chopped ties with Mr Farage. There are besides questions for BBC News aft it initially reported that Mr Farage had been ousted from the slope due to the fact that helium fell beneath the fiscal threshold, the insubstantial says. Dame Alison and BBC concern exertion Simon Jack sat adjacent to each different astatine a foundation meal the nighttime earlier the communicative was published, it adds.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's pledge to ace down connected banks denying services to customers implicit "lawful escaped speech" is the Financial Times' instrumentality connected the story. But the concern paper's main study is astir ostentation falling "further than expected" aft figures connected Wednesday showed it had dropped to a 15-month debased of 7.9% successful June. James Smith, of the Resolution Foundation think-tank, tells the insubstantial the UK is present "less of an outlier successful the conflict to tame inflation".

"Prices indispensable driblet present ostentation has fallen", insists the Daily Express, which quotes Mr Hunt arsenic saying falling figures are the "first fruits" of the "difficult decisions" helium and the premier curate person had to marque to power the rising outgo of living. Elsewhere the insubstantial carries an representation of England's Lionesses, who it says are "ready to roar" for the Women's World Cup successful Australia, with matches starting connected Thursday.

The one says that the Bank of England volition present "make a smaller 0.25% increase" to the UK's basal complaint successful August. But citing unnamed Treasury insiders it besides warns that figures are "still not falling accelerated capable for [Mr] Sunak to deed his pledge" of halving ostentation this twelvemonth - oregon for Mr Hunt to "cut taxes earlier the 2024 election".

In different economical news, the Daily Star reports that alleged "Plank of England" bosses person issued bonuses worthy £25m - portion the remainder of the state grapples with the outgo of surviving crisis. "Complete and utter bankers" is however the insubstantial describes figures including Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, who appears connected the beforehand leafage wearing a chapeau - added digitally - with the connection "prat" connected it.

"Teen execution outrage" is the Daily Mirror's main headline, aft the parent of a 16-year-old killed with a sword bought online told the authorities to "take urgent enactment connected weapon crime". Pooja Kanda led a march connected Wednesday successful Wolverhampton for her son, Ronan, who was killed adjacent to his location past June.

The Metro's main communicative is the colony reached betwixt the Metropolitan Police and the household of murdered backstage detective Daniel Morgan - 36 years aft helium was recovered with an axe successful his caput successful the car parkland of a pub successful Sydenham, south-east London. The unit has admitted liability for its errors, and corruption, and is paying undisclosed damages.

In different news, TV presenter Aled Jones has been robbed of his £17,000 Rolex "in a terrifying thoroughfare attack", the Sun reports. Mr Jones' son, Lucas, was contiguous erstwhile idiosyncratic threatened the brace with a machete adjacent to their location successful westbound London. Neither of them were injured, the insubstantial adds.