Kateâs ârelief to be in remissionâ and âSiddiq quitsâ
A beaming Princess of Wales is front and centre on the Daily Mirrorâs front page on Wednesday, as she announces, âIâm in remission.â On a visit to the hospital where she received cancer treatment, the Royal Marsden, on Tuesday, the princess âthanked staff⊠and hugged patientsâ, the paper adds.
The princessâs announcement dominates many of Wednesdayâs front pages, with the Daily Express headlining on Catherineâs âreliefâ that there is no sign of her cancer after treatment. She is now looking forward to a âfulfilling year aheadâ, it adds.
Catherineâs visit on Tuesday to the Royal Marsden â where she received her cancer treatment â is the focus of the Sunâs front page on Wednesday. The paper says she âhailedâ the standard of care at the hospital, calling it âexceptionalâ.
The princess also had âwords of comfort and caring hugsâ for patients at the Royal Marsden, writes the Metro. It carries pictures of Catherine hugging and chatting to patients on her visit, which was âto support patients and personally thank staffâ, on her first solo engagement since her cancer treatment ended.
Tulip Siddiqâs resignation as Treasury minister leads the Times, with the paper saying the Labour MP has been âforced out of officeâ over an anti-corruption inquiry in Bangladesh, which was deemed to have exposed the government to âreputational risksâ. Siddiq said she âdid not want to become a âdistraction'â, it adds, but says her resignation remains âpolitically damagingâ for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, âwho pledged to clean up government after a succession of Tory scandalsâ.
Siddiq was the âsecond resignation of a senior woman in Starmerâs government over ethicsâ, the Guardian adds. The paper says, following an investigation by the prime ministerâs standards adviser, it was deemed that she had ânot broken any rulesâ but she âcould have been more alive to the reputational risks arriving from her familyâs ties to Bangladeshâ.
But the prime minister has said the âdoor remains openâ to Siddiq in the future, writes the Financial Times, which calls her a âclose allyâ of Sir Keir. It adds that Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said the prime minister âshould have sacked Siddiq earlierâ, and that he âdithered and delayed to protect his close friendâ. Elsewhere, the paper carries a striking image of the wildfires in Los Angeles, with a warning that expected âstrong winds raise threatâ of further destruction.
The Dail Mail says Siddiqâs resignation means âone lame duck downâ, referencing its front page on Tuesday which called her, alongside Chancellor Rachel Reeves, âtwo lame ducksâ. âJust 24 hours after the PM insisted he had full confidence in her, Tulip Siddiq resigns⊠so how secure is the crisis-hit chancellor he also backed feeling today?â the paper asks.
Amid what the i calls âturbulenceâ at the Treasury, Reeves is âsearching for growth, and ready to cut spending in March mini-Budgetâ. The paper says Downing Street is âopenâ to taking a fresh look at the countryâs finances in March âin order to hit their pledge to balance the booksâ, with ânew cuts to public services and benefitsâ being considered.
The Daily Telegraph leads with criticism of the governmentâs plans to repeal parts of the Legacy Act, which it says could mean former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams, and up to 400 others âalso detained in the 1970s [have] the right to claim compensationâ for unlawful detention. Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn said the repealing of the act underlined âthe governmentâs absolute commitment to the Human Rights Actâ, the paper says, but adds that some âsenior peers and IRA victimsâ have branded the move as âunacceptableâ.
And the Daily Star is calling on the government to âkeep your filthy hands off Tory beaversâ. The paper says Downing Street has âblocked the reintroduction of beavers into the wild because it is viewed as a âTory legacy'â. The move, it adds, has left nature-lovers with their âknickers in a twistâ.
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