Sir Keir Starmer is set to “defy Trump with new aid for Ukraine”, according to the Daily Telegraph. The prime minister plans to announce both new military aid and fresh sanctions on Russia on Monday, the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion, the paper says. He is then due to visit the US president in Washington DC on Thursday.
“Starmer seeks to calm Europe’s row with Trump” is the main headline on the Guardian’s front page. Sir Keir’s visit to Trump is aimed at “cooling an escalating transatlantic row” after the American leader sharply criticised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“Russian links to drone sightings over secret UK bases” make the lead on the i Paper. It says it can reveal the movements of three “individuals with suspected links to the Kremlin”, two of whom are “believed to have worked as seasonal fruit pickers”.
An apology to any poodles offended by comparisons to Donald Trump in his relationship with Vladimir Putin makes the lead on the Daily Star (geddit?). Among other things, the dogs are “not orange”, it notes under a cartoon of the Russian president out walking the leader of the free world.
“Apple in UK privacy row” the Times reports after the corporation took the unprecedented step of removing its highest-level data security tool from customers, following a government demand for access to user data.
Similarly, “Apple closes secure iCloud system” is the main headline in the Financial Times. The move escalates a “confrontation over a secret government demand to access user data”. Elsewhere, “social media cheapskates” could be “starved out” of top London restaurants as they bring in deposits and minimum spends.
Elton John and Simon Cowell make the front page of the Daily Mail as they “join fight to stop AI giants stealing work for free”. They are, the paper says, urging a rethink on ministers’ “radical proposals to relax copyright rules”.
A report in the Daily Express looks at the “agonising battle” of the parents of Ollie and Amelia Carroll, 14 and 11, to “secure funding for vital treatment to fight Batten disease”. The incurable illness affects the nervous system, causing seizures, visual impairment, mobility loss and early death, according to the NHS. “‘Our children deserve to live as much as anyone,'” the paper’s headline says.
This year’s Victory in Europe Day commemoration will be one “to remember”, the Daily Mirror writes, with King Charles III leading the event on 8 May from the balcony of Buckingham Palace, 80 years after the end of World War Two in Europe.
