Newspaper headlines: Ignore Brexit result at your peril, MPs told By BBC News

Staff Published duration 12 June 2018

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"Ignore the will of the people at your peril" is the stark message to MPs on the front page of the Daily Express, ahead of a series of key votes in the Commons on the EU withdrawal bill.

The headline is accompanied by an editorial which is scathing in its assessment of what it calls unelected, Remain-backing peers, many enjoying lavish Brussels pensions, who have transformed the bill into a device for diluting, delaying or even averting Brexit.

The Sun's front page headline is equally unequivocal - it says MPs have a choice: Great Britain or Great Betrayal

The Angel of the North, the Red Arrows, Stonehenge, a London bus and a Spitfire feature on a collage of images designed to reinforce the message.

And inside, a full-page editorial warns of an explosion of anger if MPs - who never accepted the result of the EU referendum - back wrecking amendments drafted by unelected peers bent on destroying Brexit.

It asks: why would anyone trust our democracy again?

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The Daily Mail says the Lords have vastly overstepped their constitutional role of scrutinising legislation to iron out anomalies, seeking instead to destroy the Brexit bill altogether. It calls for the Tories to unite behind Theresa May or trigger disastrous consequences.

The Guardian takes a different view , comparing the Brexit project to a clapped out car, wobbling and wheezing with wheels and bits of bodywork falling off.

It expresses concern that party interest means the debates and votes of Tuesday and Wednesday will not be worthy of the issues.

Instead, it says, they could be all too glumly representative of the miserable domestic political shambles of the past two years.

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Don't call it diplomacy , the Guardian says of the historic summit in Singapore between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.

Mr Trump - the paper's leader column continues - doesn't know the meaning of the word. Even if concrete steps are agreed at the talks, this is in essence a spectacle. The paper says the US president's motives are too egotistical and essentially trivial for lasting progress and there are good reasons why his predecessors didn't go first.

Social media warning

The Daily Telegraph uses its front page to continue its campaign for digital companies to have a legal duty to protect children using their services.

It has a warning from the Children's Commissioner for England , Anne Longfield, who says social media companies must switch off the computer algorithms they use to keep children hooked online.

Meanwhile, the Daily Mail says it's found schools across the country pleading with parents to stop children spending their days glued to the hugely popular Fortnite video game . It says children as young as seven are playing the game - five years under the age limit of 12.

King of the castle

And the Times tells the story of the boy who became king of the castle

Mark Baker used to play in the shell of the derelict Gwrych Castle, near Conwy when he was 11 years old and began a campaign to save it from ruin.