The Papers: ‘Cap prices on staple foods’ and ‘Strictly’s triple twist’

Discussions between the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and supermarkets about potentially limiting the price of essential food items is the lead for the Daily Telegraph, the Times and the Financial Times. The Telegraph says if supermarkets comply, they could benefit in return from the lifting of regulations. It suggests there could be an easing of net zero recycling policies or a delay to a proposed obesity crackdown. The paper says the idea has angered many across the sector and quotes one retail source as saying it marks a return to the “failed policies of the 1970s”.

The Guardian reports a warning from climate advisers that homes in the UK will need air conditioning in the future to enable people to survive predicted levels of global heating. It says a report from the Climate Change Committee also recommends that air con should be installed in all care homes and hospitals within the next 10 years, and all schools within the next 25 years.

The Daily Mirror says that the singer Kylie Minogue has revealed in her new documentary that she has had cancer twice, first in 2005, and again in 2021. The paper reports that she decided to keep the second diagnosis quiet at the time but quotes her as saying that she is thankful she “got through it again”, and that “all is well”.

The Labour leadership turmoil is the lead for the i Paper which says that senior cabinet ministers are scrambling to secure positions in a possible future Andy Burnham-led government. The paper quotes a senior source as saying that cabinet members are preparing visits to Makerfield, where Burnham will stand in next month’s by-election, in the belief that if they go – and he subsequently wins a leadership challenge – they will “get a plum job”.

And the Times says a study over seven years of more than 300,000 primary school children has revealed which times tables are the trickiest to remember. The paper says four of the most difficult questions involve the number nine, with nine-times-six attracting the most wrong answers. The easiest, with the most right answers, was 11-times-eight.

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