What the papers say – October 23
Theresa May’s Brexit stand in the Commons, plastic pollution in human bodies and a “love triangle” murder make headlines on Tuesday.
The Prime Minister faced down critics of her Brexit strategy in her own party on Monday when she addressed Parliament and “pleaded” to be given time to deliver on the referendum, The Guardian reports.
The Guardian front page, Tuesday 23 October 2018: May confronts party critics and pleads for time to deliver Brexit pic.twitter.com/Bo3tdjCBIU
— The Guardian (@guardian) October 22, 2018
The Times leads with Mrs May’s refusal to accept the EU’s original backstop plan as it would mean imposing controls on goods traded between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, creating “a customs border down the Irish Sea”.
May snubs Brusselsover Irishborder #TomorrowsPapersTodaypic.twitter.com/nx8PTo9rdj
— The Times of London (@thetimes) October 22, 2018
In other Brexit news, The Independent’s online edition focuses on a warning by Nobel science prize winners over the damage a hard Brexit will cause to research.
Tuesday’s INDEPENDENT Digital: “Nobel winners across EU warn against hard Brexit” pic.twitter.com/y6PUVQ5N0P
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) October 22, 2018
The Sun runs with a man’s confession to murdering a midwife after having a long-standing affair with her.
Tomorrow's front page: Brother-in-law pleads GUILTY to killing midwife and dumping her body in a ditch after affair https://t.co/fUwgV8BEhbpic.twitter.com/SPNFj03son
— The Sun (@TheSun) October 22, 2018
38-year-old Michael Sterling’s admission to the killing of Samantha Eastwood, 28, whose body was found in a shallow grave near Caverswall, Staffordshire, in August, is also on the Daily Mirror’s front page.
Tomorrow's front page: I killed midwife after affair#tomorrowspaperstodayhttps://t.co/B2bHTp7114pic.twitter.com/dymZCAoLOp
— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) October 22, 2018
A study of samples of human waste found plastic particles in all of them, the Daily Mail reports.
Tuesday’s @DailyMailUK#MailFrontPagespic.twitter.com/wbJs9qKI4g
— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) October 22, 2018
The Metro also leads with the concerning discovery.
Tuesday’s METRO: “Plastic Now In All Our Bodies” #bbcpapers#tomorrowspaperstodaypic.twitter.com/7D47ElhEXX
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) October 22, 2018
The Daily Telegraph reports on warnings over antimicrobial resistance and the increased risk of death from hip surgery.
The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph 'Antibiotics crisis gives hip surgery lethal risk' #tomorrowspaperstodaypic.twitter.com/aBNg5EepE3
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) October 22, 2018
The i leads with a discovery that an immunotherapy treatment is better than aggressive chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for advanced head and neck cancer.
Tuesday's front page: Cancer patients could avoid chemotherapy after breakthrough treatment #tomorrowspaperstodaypic.twitter.com/RxhWpgJv6B
— i newspaper (@theipaper) October 22, 2018
The Financial Times runs with a move by Chancellor Philip Hammond to use a £13 billion windfall in the Budget to pump money into the NHS without increasing taxes.
Front page of the Financial Times, London edition, for Tuesday 23 October 2018 pic.twitter.com/w6nKCKPUDK
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) October 22, 2018
And a group of Tory MPs and peers are calling on the PM to end a “witch-hunt” of Northern Ireland veterans over historic allegations, the Daily Express reports.
Tuesday’s Daily EXPRESS: “Parliament unites to end Army witch-hunt” #bbcpapers#tomorrowspaperstodaypic.twitter.com/L0WaC1jyjI
— Allie Hodgkins-Brown (@AllieHBNews) October 22, 2018