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Senior Labour MPs have called for Sir Keir Starmer to strip Egyptian dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah of his British citizenship, the Times reports. The prime minister's "failure to conduct background checks" on Fattah, who was freed from prison in Egypt and welcomed in the UK, has been widely criticised. Historical social media messages emerged of the British-Egyptian activist calling for Zionists to be killed. Ministers in private have called Starmer's intervention "ridiculous" and "shocking", according to the Times.
The Daily Telegraph spotlights the pressure mounting on Sir Keir to revoke the citizenship of the man its headline labels as an "extremist". According to the Telegraph, Mr Fattah did not go through "good character" checks for his citizenship "because of a loophole created by the European Convention on Human Rights".
The Tory leader's fury over the prime minister welcoming a "freed anti-Semitic Egyptian dissident" takes centre position in the Daily Mail's reporting. Kemi Badenoch declares: "I do not want people who hate Britain coming to our country", and calls for Abdel Fattah to be "booted out" of the UK.
An image of Brigitte Bardot is draped across the top of the Sun's front page with the headline writer deploying the words "And God created Bardot" in reference to her iconic 1956 movie And Got Created Woman. The paper leads on its report on the weekend wedding between Olympic swimmer Adam Peaty and Holly Ramsay, daugher of the TV chef Gordon - whose "father of the bride speech" is described as "explosive" by the Sun, with its reference to a reported ongoing feud in the Peaty family.
The Daily Star also makes the same headline tribute to "screen goddess" Bardot, who has died aged 91, again referring to the movie role that catapulted the French actress into superstardom. Writer Emily Hall is evocative in her descriptions of the "Fifties blonde bombshell" and "movie sex kitten".
The Daily Mirror remembers the late French actress as "La Belle Bardot". An image of the "screen legend" with her iconic blonde tousled hair and black eyeliner, while posing in just a towel, takes up the entire front page.
A young Bardot also takes up nearly half of the Guardian front page, but its accompanying report highlights that in her later years she turned her back on film stardom and "embraced animal rights activism". In its lead story, the US President has said war talks for Ukraine are in their "final stages, as Trump sat down last night for a meeting in Florida with Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
In an exclusive with the i Paper, a co-creator of the Novichock nerve agent alleges the Kremlin "may be developing even deadlier weapons". The interview comes amid Trump and Zelensky's latest negotiations for a peace deal.
The Financial Times names "Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups", which have raised a record $150bn to protect themselves from AI investment going bust. The paper says they have built "fortress balance sheets" against the chance of an AI investment downturn.
The Daily Express runs an exclusive on new care home inspection plans putting "thousands of residents at risk". The proposed overhaul could mean services only undergo full checks every 10 years, according to the paper.
The front pages of The Daily Mail, The Times and The Daily Telegraph all focus on social media messages sent by the British-Egyptian activist, Alaa Abdel Fattah, described by the government as "abhorrent".
Writing in The Daily Mail, the Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, says she "does not want people who hate Britain coming to our country" and says the Home Office should consider deporting him.
The Times quotes both a minister and a senior Labour MP calling for the activist to be stripped of his British citizenship, with the minister telling the paper serious questions need to be asked about the lack of judgement in allowing him into the UK. Alaa Abdel Fattah has apologised, but says the meaning of some of the posts has been "twisted".
President Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky meeting in Florida to discuss a Ukraine peace deal features in most of the papers. The i Paper says there was an "upbeat" mood. But the Guardian reports that a former Ukrainian diplomat has accused President Putin of trying to "sabotage things" by speaking to Trump on the phone ahead of the talks in Mar-a-Lago.
And the face of Brigitte Bardot features on many of the front pages, after her death was announced yesterday. She was 91. The Daily Mail describes her as "France's most alluring export". "La Belle Bardot" is the headline in the Daily Mirror.
