The latest from the US presidential race features on many of Tuesday’s front pages. The Daily Telegraph leads on Republican nominee Donald Trump’s decision to pick Ohio senator JD Vance as his running mate. The paper describes Mr Vance as a “firebrand” and one of Trump’s “fiercest supporters”.
The Financial Times says Mr Trump has received a boost to his campaign after a judge dismissed a criminal case brought against him over his handling of classified documents following his presidency. The paper says Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, ruled that the appointment of Jack Smith, a lawyer brought in by the Department of Justice to investigate the issue, was unconstitutional.
Mr Trump marked the legal decision by saying it should be “followed quickly by the dismissal of ALL the witch hunts”, a reference to the numerous legal battles he been fighting, reports the Guardian. Further down the front page, the paper reports that the UK faces defence threats from a “deadly quartet” made up of China, Russia Iran and North Korea, according to the head of the UK government’s new defence review.
The Times reports on new polling for the broadsheet by YouGov that shows Mr Trump leading President Biden in all seven battleground states ahead of November’s election. The paper says the polling was carried out before the assassination attempt against Mr Trump on Saturday, and that his “lead is expected to widen in the aftermath” of the shooting.
Mr Trump and UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer have started building their new “special relationship”, according to the i. The paper says it was Sir Keir’s idea to call Trump after the assassination attempt and that he overruled his advisers, who suggested sending a note instead. The paper says the pair spoke for 10 minutes and that Trump is “eager to build a strong working relationship” with Sir Keir.
The Metro leads with the news that a body has been found in the search for missing British teenager Jay Slater in Tenerife. The paper says the body was found in a ravine close to the last location of Mr Slater’s mobile phone and that police have said the person “may have suffered an accident or a fall”. Formal identification of the body is yet to be carried out.
The discovery is described as a “family’s worst nightmare” by the Daily Mirror. The paper quotes Spanish police as saying that “everything is pointing to [the person discovered] being a young British man”.
The Daily Express carries an image from what it describes as “dramatic footage” that shows rescue workers using a helicopter to reach the ravine where the body was discovered. The paper says it is believed that specialists on the ground also found Mr Slater’s possessions and clothes.
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has issued guidance telling doctors to raise the issue of climate change in consultations and to use remote appointments to cut their emissions, according to the Daily Mail. The paper says the guidance amounts to an instruction to doctors to “lecture” their patients. The RCP has said the NHS is “responsible for around 40% of the UK’s public sector emissions and 4% of total emissions”, and that doctors have a “vital role to play” in tackling climate change.
And the Daily Star says the widow of comedian Ken Dodd still talks with her “dearly departed Doddy” every day.
