Newspaper headlines: Johnson to demand 'Brexit dividend' By BBC News

Staff Published duration 23 January 2018

image copyright PA image caption Mr Johnson is due to make the call during a cabinet meeting later

A number of health stories hit the front pages for Tuesday - including the Times' report that Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will demand a £100m-a-week "Brexit dividend" for the NHS at a cabinet meeting later.

An unnamed ally of Mr Johnson is quoted as saying: "Boris believes that if the Tories are going to beat Corbyn at the next election they must make the NHS a top priority."

The paper says the timing and manner of his intervention will strain relations with the prime minister at a time when the reshuffle has raised questions about her authority.

The Daily Mail says the move is being resisted by No 10 and the Treasury, who believe such an announcement would be premature.

Just over 100 have had none of their cladding removed since the fire seven months ago, in which 71 people were killed.

Labour has said the speed of the response is "simply not good enough".

Future of UKIP

The Daily Telegraph reports the views of the former UKIP leader Nigel Farage on the future of the party in an article on its website , but its leader column takes a less positive view.

The paper believes UKIP has always been a single-issue movement and "the idea that it could morph into a national party offering a range of domestic and foreign policies was always fanciful".

Perhaps, says the paper, "the time has come to call it a day".

Its cartoonist, Matt, gives his own verdict on the troubles of the party, which has had three leaders in the past 15 months.

He shows a puzzled man gazing at a poster which reads: "UKIP - join today and be leader by 5pm."

image copyright PA image caption The leader of UKIP, Henry Bolton, has refused to resign

A driver, said to have been travelling at 60mph on the A1 with both hands on his mobile phone, will wake up this morning to find his photo across the front page of the Daily Mirror

The paper says 10 months after tougher penalties were introduced, drivers are still not getting the message.

It has been out with police catching motorists using their phones at the wheel and is calling for more traffic police and a public information campaign to stop drivers gambling with the lives of other road users.

Fancy dress complaint

Several papers, including the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror , report that an Oxford University student has been disciplined for going to a fancy dress party as the world-famous physicist, Prof Stephen Hawking.

The student created his costume for a "Dress As Your Degree" party at Lady Margaret Hall and rolled in on an office chair, to represent the scientist's wheelchair.

He has been referred to the college dean by fellow students on the Junior Common Room

End of the roll

A May Day cheese-rolling festival in the village of Stilton in Cambridgeshire has been abandoned this year because of a "lack of interest", according to the Daily Telegraph

The annual contest has been run since the middle of the last century and involves teams rolling wheels of blue cheese along a road.