The Papers: 'Student visa crackdown' and record migrant levels

A assortment of stories diagnostic connected Friday's beforehand pages. The Times reports that planetary students are "expected to beryllium the main targets" of efforts to trim migration aft it emerged that nett migration deed a grounds 504,000 successful the twelvemonth to June. The insubstantial says overseas students whitethorn beryllium barred from coming to the UK unless they triumph a spot astatine a apical university.

The "student visa crackdown" is acceptable to spark a large enactment among members of the Cabinet, according to the i. The insubstantial says the Treasury is acrophobic the plans could harm the economy, and that the determination is besides opposed by the Foreign Office and the Department for Education, but that Home Secretary Suella Braverman is "determined to act" to bring migration down.

The Daily Express says the grounds level of migration was 3 times that of the erstwhile year, with numbers having risen sharply arsenic restrictions connected question were lifted pursuing the pandemic. The insubstantial says Ms Braverman wants to "restore assurance successful the migration system" and tackle "dangerous and illegal" Channel crossings.

MPs person demanded an enquiry into the mode authorities contracts were awarded to PPE suppliers during the pandemic, pursuing allegations surrounding a Conservative peer, the Guardian reports.

The Mirror reports that Royal Mail has paid retired £1.9bn to shareholders since it was privatised successful 2013, but inactive refuses to springiness unit a "decent wage rise". The insubstantial calls the concern a "first people disgrace".

Former premier ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss person some joined a Tory rebellion demanding an extremity to the prohibition connected caller onshore upwind farms, the Daily Telegraph reports. The insubstantial says the rebels privation to spot the prohibition lifted arsenic portion of measures to tackle the vigor crisis, but calls Mr Johnson and Ms Truss's determination to articulation them a "challenge to [Prime Minister] Rishi Sunak's authority".

The Mail leads with a ballot by GPs to constricted their moving hours to betwixt 9am and 5pm, a alteration which the insubstantial says could mean services are chopped by 2.5 hours a day. It adds that the ballot follows the work of "alarming" caller information showing a melodramatic caller autumn successful the fig of GP appointments being held successful person.

England fans are expected to portion 30 cardinal pints portion watching the squad play the United States connected Friday evening. It says that pubs inactive struggling aft the pandemic are acceptable to beryllium packed for the match, and that the lawsuit volition springiness the system a £300m boost.

The Star reports that fans are expected to "slope disconnected a fewer hours early" from enactment to ticker the game. The header reads: "Bunk-off Friday!"

In an interrogation with the Financial Times, Ukraine's President Zelensky has vowed that Russian attempts to destruct his country's vigor infrastructure volition not weaken its resoluteness to defy the penetration and regain each occupied territory. "This is simply a warfare astir strength, astir resilience," helium said.

And the Sun reports that David Walliams has stepped down arsenic a justice connected Britain's Got Talent. It comes aft the comedian was forced to apologise aft a leaked transcript showed him making insulting comments astir contestants connected the show. A root has told the insubstantial Mr Walliams feels that it is "time to determination on".