Newspaper headlines: Outrage as Johnson 'takes the gloves off' By BBC News

Staff Published duration 29 August 2019

image copyright Getty Images image caption Boris Johnson was accused of creating a "constitutional crisis"

It's no surprise that the prime minister's announcement that he will suspend Parliament next month dominates Thursday's editions.

The Daily Mirror accuses Boris Johnson of creating a "constitutional crisis" for the benefit only of his own political future.

In its leader column , the Guardian calls his actions "a grotesque abuse of the country's highest political office".

The Daily Mail objects to what it calls the "hysterics of the Remain irreconcilables". It insists it is not "glorying" in what it calls the "sobering step", but suggests Mr Johnson's tactic is paying off and that the EU is signalling it may offer concessions.

The Daily Telegraph predicts that the next few weeks will be chaotic but praises the prime minister for acting "boldly".

The Sun reports on a study of more than 20 million births which suggests that children delivered by C-section are a third more likely to develop autism. The Swedish academics also found there was a higher risk of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

But according to the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail , British scientists have questioned the research. They explain that the higher incidence does not show the caesarean delivery causes the conditions.

The arrival of the 16-year-old climate activist, Greta Thunberg, in New York after her 15-day voyage across the Atlantic in a yacht is marked by several papers.

image copyright Reuters image caption Greta Thunberg arrived in New York after sailing the Atlantic

The Guardian speaks to some of the enthusiastic crowds who greeted her . The Green MEP Molly Scott Cato suggests her journey sends a message to us all to reconsider how we travel.

But The Spectator questions its virtue , raising the controversy over the flights of the support team. The magazine asks why she couldn't stay at home and rely instead on the internet for communication.

There's been a call to cut the drink-drive limit, according to the Guardian and the Times.

Both papers say that the number of people killed in alcohol-fuelled crashes has reached an eight-year high.

The Daily Mail suggests a hard core of male drink-drivers has been blamed for the increase.

But the Department of Transport tells the Times that the extra deaths are not statistically significant as they're based on estimates.

Meanwhile the Daily Mirror reports on a survey which reveals that one in six bus drivers has fallen asleep while driving at least once in the past year.

One in five say they fight sleepiness at least twice a week, and 5% said they had been in an accident because of tiredness.

Such issues will be long forgotten in 50 years' time though, if the predictions made in the Sun come to pass, with high-power drones taking the place of buses and taxis