A beaming Princess of Wales is front and centre on the Daily Mirror’s front page on Wednesday, as she announces, “I’m in remission.” On a visit to the hospital where she received cancer treatment, the Royal Marsden, on Tuesday, the princess “thanked staff… and hugged patients”, the paper adds.
The princess’s announcement dominates many of Wednesday’s front pages, with the Daily Express headlining on Catherine’s “relief” that there is no sign of her cancer after treatment. She is now looking forward to a “fulfilling year ahead”, it adds.
Catherine’s visit on Tuesday to the Royal Marsden – where she received her cancer treatment – is the focus of the Sun’s front page on Wednesday. The paper says she “hailed” the standard of care at the hospital, calling it “exceptional”.
The princess also had “words of comfort and caring hugs” for patients at the Royal Marsden, writes the Metro. It carries pictures of Catherine hugging and chatting to patients on her visit, which was “to support patients and personally thank staff”, on her first solo engagement since her cancer treatment ended.
Tulip Siddiq’s resignation as Treasury minister leads the Times, with the paper saying the Labour MP has been “forced out of office” over an anti-corruption inquiry in Bangladesh, which was deemed to have exposed the government to “reputational risks”. Siddiq said she “did not want to become a ‘distraction'”, it adds, but says her resignation remains “politically damaging” for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, “who pledged to clean up government after a succession of Tory scandals”.
Siddiq was the “second resignation of a senior woman in Starmer’s government over ethics”, the Guardian adds. The paper says, following an investigation by the prime minister’s standards adviser, it was deemed that she had “not broken any rules” but she “could have been more alive to the reputational risks arriving from her family’s ties to Bangladesh”.
But the prime minister has said the “door remains open” to Siddiq in the future, writes the Financial Times, which calls her a “close ally” of Sir Keir. It adds that Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said the prime minister “should have sacked Siddiq earlier”, and that he “dithered and delayed to protect his close friend”. Elsewhere, the paper carries a striking image of the wildfires in Los Angeles, with a warning that expected “strong winds raise threat” of further destruction.
The Dail Mail says Siddiq’s resignation means “one lame duck down”, referencing its front page on Tuesday which called her, alongside Chancellor Rachel Reeves, “two lame ducks”. “Just 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?” the paper asks.
Amid what the i calls “turbulence” at the Treasury, Reeves is “searching for growth, and ready to cut spending in March mini-Budget”. The paper says Downing Street is “open” to taking a fresh look at the country’s finances in March “in order to hit their pledge to balance the books”, with “new cuts to public services and benefits” being considered.
The Daily Telegraph leads with criticism of the government’s plans to repeal parts of the Legacy Act, which it says could mean former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams, and up to 400 others “also detained in the 1970s [have] the right to claim compensation” for unlawful detention. Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn said the repealing of the act underlined “the government’s absolute commitment to the Human Rights Act”, the paper says, but adds that some “senior peers and IRA victims” have branded the move as “unacceptable”.
And the Daily Star is calling on the government to “keep your filthy hands off Tory beavers”. The paper says Downing Street has “blocked the reintroduction of beavers into the wild because it is viewed as a ‘Tory legacy'”. The move, it adds, has left nature-lovers with their “knickers in a twist”.
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