Thursday’s papers are led by reaction to the Prime Minister’s keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference.
The Times,The Guardian and i report business leaders have reacted with anger to Boris Johnson’s address. He has been accused of making them scapegoats for labour shortages after the PM said firms should not use Brexit as an excuse for “failing to invest in people”.
TIMES: PM hit by business backlash #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/l6jMAp65gw
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) October 6, 2021
Guardian front page, Thursday 7 October 2021: Business anger at ‘vacuous and bombastic’ PM speech pic.twitter.com/idYMx2MhuP
— The Guardian (@guardian) October 6, 2021
‘There may be trouble ahead’ #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/Ic3xKTQDg5
— i newspaper (@theipaper) October 6, 2021
The Daily Telegraph leads with Mr Johnson’s pledge not to build houses on “green fields”, while the i says the PM “shrugs off Britain’s cost of living crisis”.
The front page of tomorrow’s Daily Telegraph:
‘PM pledges no homes on green fields’#TomorrowsPapersToday
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— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) October 6, 2021
‘There may be trouble ahead’ #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/Ic3xKTQDg5
— i newspaper (@theipaper) October 6, 2021
Metro says the “banter-packed” speech pleased the party faithful, but was “short on policies”.
Thursday’s front page:
BUILD BACK BANTER#TomorrowsPapersToday #BBCPapers #skypapers pic.twitter.com/nsSMbEdwX9
— Metro Newspaper UK (@MetroUKNews) October 6, 2021
Elsewhere, the Daily Mail reports Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, ran an illegal phone hacking racket in the UK.
Thursday’s @DailyMailUK #MailFrontPages pic.twitter.com/nI4Im0HTF5
— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) October 6, 2021
Some 100,000 pigs face being culled due to an abattoir staff shortage, according to the Daily Mirror.
Tomorrow’s front page: Farming hit by staff crisishttps://t.co/vtWZcVIvCp#TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/pwgrbY5gDG
— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) October 6, 2021
The Financial Times leads with see-sawing natural gas costs after Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to stabilise the soaring global energy prices.
Just published: Front page of the Financial Times, UK edition, for Thursday 7 October pic.twitter.com/U8y2V6s949
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) October 6, 2021
And the Daily Star says TV psychic Uri Geller has claimed aliens were to blame for the outage which impacted Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp earlier this week.
Tomorrow’s front page: Aliens Broke T’Interweb #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/FoLVvucJy6 pic.twitter.com/GSDfiNd8a1
— Daily Star (@dailystar) October 6, 2021
