“UK warns Israel” and “its staff must get more rights”

Sources in Whitehall and within the intelligence community told the newspaper they believed there was a “strong possibility” that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would green light a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Israel should retaliate against Tehran following this week’s missile barrage. Three former heads of Western intelligence agencies told the newspaper they believed the crisis could prompt Iran to develop its own nuclear bomb.

“Reeves pledges to invest, invest, invest”, headlines the Financial Times, as the chancellor prepares to increase borrowing to finance a multi-million pound investment program in this month’s Budget, reports the newspaper. Rachel Reeves seeks to calm “potentially nervous” markets and indicated that higher taxes would go some way towards plugging the £22 billion “hole” she identified in the public finances, she said. he. The front also published a photo of a man running for cover in a suburb of Beirut “during an Israeli air raid”. A court decision against Fifa could disrupt the system of selling players between European football clubs, the newspaper also reports.

As Labor carries out ‘once in a generation’ overhaul of workers’ rights, more than seven million people will have access to sick pay, maternity pay and protection against unfair dismissal from day one of their employment, indicates the Times. Probationary periods will also be reduced to a maximum of six months, but managers will still be able to fire “unsatisfactory workers”, the newspaper said. The front page is dominated by a “portrait of determination”: a photo of cancer-stricken Liz Hatton, 17, who was hugged by Catherine, Princess of Wales, this week. Liz fulfilled her ambition to take photos for The Times, the paper said.

“A showbiz bombshell!” Nick Knowles has left Strictly Come Dancing following a second knee injury, the Mirror reports.

Argentina is preparing a “new takeover of the Falklands”, according to the Daily Mail, following the United Kingdom’s decision to cede the sovereignty of Diego Garcia to Mauritius.

L’Express calls Labor’s removal of winter fuel payments for retirees “shameful” and says more than one in four people affected are over 80.

Swedish-British TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson has spoken to The Sun about her struggles with alcohol. She has been sober for four months but has previously suffered “terrifying blackouts” while drinking alone.

In a nod to Star Trek, the Daily Star claims Hurricane Kirk is heading towards Britain and could cause “havoc”.

The Times says ministers are planning what they will call a ‘once in a generation’ overhaul of workers’ rights. These plans would include the right to sick pay, maternity pay and protection against unfair dismissal from the first day of employment. But the newspaper says the government has “offered concessions on key aspects of the reforms”, including abandoning the “right to disconnect”, which would have prevented companies from contacting their employees outside of working hours.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves gave an interview to the Financial Times Weekend, which he said “sets the tone” for his Budget later this month. It pledges to “invest, invest, invest”, but insists it will install “guardrails” around additional borrowing. The newspaper says Reeves also suggests that raising taxes would help meet the needs a £22 billion ‘hole’ in public finances she identified, promising that “there will be no return to austerity”.

“Don’t touch our Falklands”, headlines the Daily Mail. It reports that Argentina has been “emboldened” by what the newspaper calls the UK’s “humiliating surrender” from the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, and “vowed to make a new prize” for the Falklands.

In the Daily Express, the Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs reportedly declared that her government would “regain full sovereignty” of what it calls Las Malvinas. But Sir Keir Starmer’s spokesman insisted the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands “is not up for debate”.

Photos of the Conservative Party leadership candidate James cleverly and his wife at Wimbledon are published in the Daily Mirror. It says the couple accepted tickets to the men’s singles final last year, but the foreign minister at the time said his wife was not present. A spokesperson for Cleverly said there was an error in the statement and it had contacted the government to correct it.

And The Sun tells of a British expat who traveled almost 700 miles from Spain to the UK, just to satisfy a huge craving for Nando’s. Mark Rofe didn’t even leave Heathrow Airport when he arrived. He tells the newspaper he simply stopped at the restaurant branch in the south terminal before boarding another flight to Barcelona – taking a chicken wrap with him.