The Guardian says the biggest rail strikes in three decades are due to start on Monday night, with trains cancelled across Great Britain for much of the week.
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The Independent says Britain’s major trade unions are collectively urging the government to “get round” the negotiating table to try to find a resolution, 24 hours ahead of the biggest strike action on the rail network for decades.
The Metro says the government has been accused of ‘pouring petrol on the fire’ by boycotting negotiations before the ‘biggest rail strike in modern history’.
BBC News says Travellers are facing reduced train services across England, Scotland and Wales ahead of the biggest rail strike in 30 years.
The Metro says a married Home Office boss who spiked his pregnant mistress’s orange juice in a bid to cause a miscarriage has been jailed for more than three-and-a-half years.
The Independent says Downing Street has urged employers to allow staff to work from home during next week’s rail strikes as the transport secretary warned strikers they were risking their jobs because the railway was now competing against remote working and other forms of public and private transport.
Daily Express says TORY plotters are revelling after Boris Johnson’s ethics adviser resigned last night, with renewed pressure heaped on the Prime Minister’s position.
The Guardian says Priti Patel has been accused by Labour of participating in a “government by gimmick” in the aftermath of the 11th-hour cancellation on Tuesday of the inaugural flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda.
Sky News says Lord Geidt has resigned as the prime minister’s adviser on ministerial interests. “With regret, I feel that it is right that I am resigning from my post as Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests,” the statement reads.
The government’s controversial Rwanda deportation plan has received a lot of attention. The plan has been widely condemned by Labour politicians, Human Rights watchdogs, royals, celebrities and even the Church of England – who called it ‘ungodly’.
Prime Minister’s Questions – 15/06 – Rwanda, Northern Ireland Protocol controversies
The PM will face off with Labour’s Keir Starmer today at this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions – with the government’s Rwanda plan likely to be top of the agenda.
The i says Around 260 people crossed the Channel in small boats on Tuesday despite the Government’s claims that the threat of deportation to Rwanda would act as a deterrent.
The Independent says The UK’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has inspired fresh waves of racist and bigoted language on social media, public figures have warned.
The Guardian says Controversy surrounding the government policy of flying asylum seekers to Rwanda has gathered in intensity amid the countdown to the first deportation flight.
BBC News says the first flight due to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda was cancelled minutes before take-off after legal rulings on Tuesday evening.
The Independent says the foreign secretary has insisted the government’s policy to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda is “completely moral” after the Church of England’s senior bishops condemned the plan.
The Guardian says Liz Truss says Rwanda flights policy is ‘completely moral’ amid backlash and criticism from royals and Church officials.
BBC News says three more people due to be on the first flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda are planning legal challenges before take-off later on Tuesday.
The Metro says Sir Keir Starmer is being investigated by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over potential breaches of rules on earnings and gifts.
The Guardian says concerns are mounting that children wrongly assessed as adults by the Home Office could end up being offshored to Rwanda.
The Metro says A Government minister has insisted that a first deportation flight taking refugees to Rwanda will go ahead next week, despite last-ditch attempts to stop it.
The Sun says PRINCE Charles and Boris Johnson are likely to meet in Rwanda after the migrants row.
Daily Mirror says A divisive Home Office flight to Rwanda tomorrow now faces taking barely 10 asylum seekers – if it takes off at all, it is understood.
BBC News says The Court of Appeal is set to decide later whether to allow the first Home Office flight to depart to Rwanda with asylum seekers.
