Newspaper headlines: 'Tax-cutting Tories' and UN climate warning

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21 November 2023

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Several papers lead on Rishi Sunak's plans for the economy. what it calls a "Thatcherite tax-cutting drive". "Return of tax-cutting Tories" is the headline in the , which quotes a Conservative source as saying the prime minister told colleagues the party had to "show not tell" on tax cuts, after raising the burden to record levels.

According to , the government is expected to raise the state pension by 8.5%, in line with the normal measure of earnings. There had been suggestions a lower measure might be used, to strip out the effect of bonuses. The paper also says the chancellor is expected to increase benefits by 6.7%, in line with the inflation figure from September - rather than last month's lower figure of 4.6%.

, that the world is on track for a "hellish" rise in temperatures. The paper highlights a UN report calling for drastic cuts in emissions ahead of the COP28 climate summit in the United Arab Emirates next week. The report says carbon-cutting policies are so inadequate that global temperatures will rise by 3C this century.

The new Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron is pictured in several papers wearing red ceremonial ermine robes - after beginning his new life as a peer yesterday. "Oh Lord it's him" declares the . It says the Commons Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, has ordered clerks to look into ways they can hold him to account - as he will be able to dodge questions in the House of Commons because he is not an MP.

says the Liberal Democrats have called on Rishi Sunak's ethics adviser to launch an investigation into Lord Cameron's lobbying work.

has made "five or six" attempts to assassinate him, but the attacks were foiled by his country's intelligence services. Mr Zelensky says Russian special forces parachuted into Kyiv to kill him on the first day of the Russian invasion. He tells the paper the first plot caused a panic - "like Covid" - but surviving gets easier each time.

Many papers picture Nigel Farage, after television viewers selected him to take on an eating challenge in ITV's "I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here". The former UKIP leader is shown munching on the udders of a camel, a sheep and a cow - with cream cheese - as well as what with genitals from a sheep, bull, pig and crocodile. pictures a wincing Mr Farage on its front page and asks whether he is finding life in the jungle "hard to swallow".