Several of Wednesday's beforehand pages pb with stories connected the government's benefits overhaul, announced by Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall connected Tuesday. "Worried sick" is the Mirror's headline, arsenic it says Number 10 has defended the changes amid "fear and uncertainty for the vulnerable".
The government's reforms volition artifact young radical from claiming retired of enactment sickness benefits, the I insubstantial reports. Generation Z has received a "benefits chopped for anxiousness and depression", it adds.
The Metro focuses connected absorption to cuts from wrong the Labour Party, which it says forced a "backdown" implicit plans to trim the size of currency payments for recipients of the Personal Independence Payment (Pip).
More cuts are connected the array adjacent week, the Financial Times reports, arsenic Chancellor Rachel Reeves prepares to denote a "further multibillion-pound nationalist spending squeeze" successful her Spring Statement. The insubstantial besides reports connected Israel's "extensive strikes" connected Gaza.
Several different papers pb connected US President Donald Trump's Tuesday telephone telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The brace "failed to halt the Ukraine war", says the Sun, with Putin lone agreeing not to onslaught vigor plants for 30 days. Trump agreed to Putin's petition for a US-Russia hockey match, the insubstantial reports, prompting its headline: "What the Puck?"
Ceasefire hopes for Ukraine are "on a weapon edge" aft the call, the Times reports. Putin's demands person frustrated Kyiv, the insubstantial adds, arsenic Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia is "not acceptable to extremity this war".
The Daily Express highlights Sir Keir Starmer's effect to the Trump-Putin call, with the UK premier curate calling for a "just and lasting bid for Ukraine".
"Putin rejects Trump's ceasefire" is the Telegraph's headline, with the paper's beforehand leafage besides carrying stories connected GCSE exams being scaled back, and disapproval of Nigel Farage from Tory person Kemi Badenoch.
A teen who killed 3 household members had besides made plans to perpetrate the "biggest weapon massacre of the century", the Daily Mail reports from his trial. Nicholas Prosper, 18, is owed to beryllium sentenced for the murders of his mother, member and sister connected Wednesday.
The Daily Star's header - "Trump's taking a Liberty" - sits alongside a photoshopped representation of the Statue of Liberty overlaid with the US president's grimacing face. The insubstantial reports that French radical are asking America to nonstop the sculpture backmost arsenic Trump "doesn't cognize what it stands for". The monument was built successful France and fixed to the US successful the precocious 1800s.