A premix of stories pb Saturday's papers, with a fewer focusing connected cuts to the UK's payment spending which are expected to beryllium announced adjacent week. The Times reports that a cardinal radical could suffer their disablement benefit, with changes that mean "only the astir severely disabled volition qualify". The insubstantial besides has a ample representation of Inothewayurthinkin, which won the Cheltenham Gold Cup connected Friday, ridden by Mark Walsh.
The FT besides leads connected authorities spending cuts, looking up to planned announcements successful Chancellor Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement aboriginal this month. It reports connected a "tense" furniture gathering which saw concerns raised by ministers including Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper astir the imaginable interaction of cuts connected Labour's manifesto pledges.
A mates of Saturday's papers pb connected the diplomatic propulsion to unafraid a ceasefire successful Ukraine, and a informing from Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer that Vladimir Putin cannot beryllium allowed to "play games". A virtual gathering is acceptable to instrumentality spot connected Saturday betwixt countries which person agreed to play a aboriginal peacekeeping relation successful Ukraine, a radical which Starmer has dubbed the "coalition of the willing".
The aforesaid pb makes the beforehand of the Telegraph, with the insubstantial reporting Starmer has said Putin is "not superior astir peace".
The Daily Express pb connected a communicative astir Dame Esther Rantzen, who has applauded the Royal College of GPs for ending their absorption to assisted dying. The insubstantial has been a long-time protagonist of the run by Dame Esther, who has a terminal lung crab diagnosis.
The beforehand leafage of the Daily Mail reports that House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle "was past nighttime embroiled successful a caller enactment aft recruiting a erstwhile lobbyist who gave him respective all-expenses-paid junkets". A spokesperson for the Speaker told the paper: "We perfectly refute immoderate proposition oregon accusation of impropriety."
The Daily Mirror leads connected a communicative astir Daniel Bannister, a 50-year-old antheral who has been jailed for stalking the popular prima Cheryl Tweedy.
The Sun reports that caller England brag Thomas Tuchel "will sing the nationalist anthem - but lone aft we triumph a fewer games".