What the papers say – May 26
Tuesday’s papers are split on the Dominic Cummings affair, with some continuing calls for his resignation over his alleged flouting of lockdown rules, and others focusing on Britain getting back to business.
The Daily Mirror and Daily Mail again go on the attack, both running the headline “No regrets; No Apology”, and with the Mail asking “How can he survive?”
Tomorrow’s front page: No regrets no apology#tomorrowspaperstoday https://t.co/WyVw63QUIR pic.twitter.com/EURyVIkd8i
— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) May 25, 2020
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Support us and go ad-freeTuesday’s @DailyMailUK #MailFrontPages pic.twitter.com/5T9PybXP1F
— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) May 25, 2020
The Guardian and the i lead on Cummings’s lack of regret.
Guardian front page, 26 May 2020: ‘I don’t regret what I did.’ Cummings refuses to quit pic.twitter.com/uR4UbIZARV
— Guardian news (@guardiannews) May 25, 2020
Tuesday’s front page: No regrets – Dominic Cummings unrepentant about driving 260 miles to Durham with family#TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/vxtEs7efVZ
— i newspaper (@theipaper) May 25, 2020
And Metro continues to allege a double standard for how lockdown rules apply to different people, playing on the government’s ‘stay alert’ message with a headline of “Stay Elite”.
Tuesday’s Metro: STAY ELITE #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/jsBotMBCZk
— Helena Wilkinson (@BBCHelena) May 25, 2020
Meanwhile, the Daily Express and the Sun touch on Cummings but lead on an upbeat note, saying shops will reopen soon.
Tomorrow’s front page: https://t.co/jtvqSc55PL#TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/y9RLpJpw5B
— Daily Express (@Daily_Express) May 25, 2020
Tuesday’s The Sun: Open for business #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/trFzfap7dS
— Helena Wilkinson (@BBCHelena) May 25, 2020
The Daily Telegraph also focuses on the reopening of retail outlets as the UK “edges back to normality”.
Tuesday’s Daily Telegraph: High street to reopen as UK edges back to normality #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/0llZFHdyTS
— Helena Wilkinson (@BBCHelena) May 25, 2020
But the Independent says shops reopening is the news the government would “rather you think about”, and instead leads with a call for Cummings to apologise.
Tuesday’s Independent: ‘I don’t regret what I did’ #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/0HTrrOEP3d
— Helena Wilkinson (@BBCHelena) May 25, 2020
The Times reports on Cummings’s insistence he did not break lockdown rules.
#TomorrowsPapersToday Cummings: I did not break lockdown rule@BBCHelena pic.twitter.com/1W2J5LsJwA
— The Times Pictures (@TimesPictures) May 25, 2020
HSBC has been led to rethink its overhaul due to greater than expected costs associated with the pandemic, the Financial Times reports.
Tuesday’s Financial Times: HSBC rethinks overhaul with sharper cuts as crisis costs rise #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/4BmQKtsJmb
— Helena Wilkinson (@BBCHelena) May 25, 2020
And the Daily Star carries a story on the naming and shaming of British trophy hunters in Africa.
Tomorrow’s front page:https://t.co/lKOvv1ll3a#TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/ZTwWEBEJ6K
— Daily Star (@dailystar) May 25, 2020
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I’d say all the ones who were charged with breaking the rules who were not Cummings could say No Regrets, No Apology .
Why are they treating these people like criminals in the first place has people alarmed I’d say.
I further speculate that for the commons to break these rules must be frightening for the governent while having “career pychopath” like Cummings as a senior advisor is quite acceptable for the Prime Minister and for those who truly rule the country.
Welcome to the Psychopathic Politics of the 21st century. Its hot, nearly invinceable with the latest, most clever, nonsense you will ever hear in your life. So successful too it appears, this bold unflinching lying where
image, illusion means everything.