“Reeves vows to invest, invest, invest” headlines in the Financial Times, as the chancellor prepares to increase borrowing to fuel a multi-million pound cash plan in this month’s budget, the paper reports. Rachel Reeves wants to calm “potentially nervous” markets and pointed out that higher taxes will go some way to filling the £22bn “hole” she has identified in the public finances, she said. The front also features a picture of a man running for cover in a Beirut suburb “during Israeli airstrikes”. The court’s decision against Fifa may disrupt the system of selling players between European football teams, this newspaper reported. [BBC]
As Labor makes “once-in-a-generation” changes to workers’ rights, more than seven million people will be able to get sick pay, maternity pay and unfair dismissal protection from day one, the Times said. Probationary periods will be reduced to six months, but managers will still be able to fire “unsatisfactory employees”, the paper said. Dominating the front page is an “image of determination”: a photo of cancer survivor Liz Hatton, 17, who hugged Catherine, Princess of Wales, this week. Liz has fulfilled a desire to take pictures for the Times, the paper says. [BBC]
“Showbiz bombshell!” Nick Knowles has left Strictly Come Dancing following a second knee injury, reports the Mirror. [BBC]
Argentina plans to “seize the Falklands again”, according to the Daily Mail, following the UK’s decision to hand over Diego Garcia’s sovereignty to Mauritius. [BBC]
The Express calls the winter fuel cuts for pensioners “disgraceful” and says more than one in four people over 80 are affected. [BBC]
In a nod to Star Trek, the Daily Star says Storm Kirk is headed for Britain and could bring “disaster”. [BBC]
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