Labour Brexit vote and US judge accused again

Brexit is essentially the only big issue where Jeremy Corbyn is in conflict with Labour Party members – the latter have long wanted him to campaign for a new referendum. He has always said he would prefer a general election, which he believes would propel him to power and into the Brexit driving seat – but he has accepted he would be “bound” by the outcome of a vote by members at party conference.

Last year, allies of Jeremy Corbyn stopped the issue of Brexit being fully debated at the Labour conference, so those in favour of a fresh vote will see this as significant progress. And, as our political correspondent Iain Watson says, even the hint of a new referendum will allow the Conservatives to claim that Labour weren’t serious enough about respecting the previous one.

A public inquiry will begin later into the contaminated blood scandal that left nearly 3,000 people dead. It will look at how NHS patients, many with the inherited bleeding disorder haemophilia, came to be given blood products infected with hepatitis and HIV during the 1970s and 1980s. The inquiry could last more than two years and if it finds culpability, it opens the door to victims seeking large compensation payouts through the courts. The BBC recently told the powerful story of one woman, Liz, who lost both her husbands to the scandal.

By Kevin Peachey, personal finance reporter, BBC Business

Thomas Paris was fed up. He was living in a “horrible ground floor flat” in Bristol and paying rent to a landlord with little inclination to spruce up the one-bedroom home. “I was sick of asking for things to be done to make it an environment we could live in,” he says. So he sat down with his partner at the time and looked at their finances. While they did not earn enough to get a mortgage and buy a home outright, they decided they could part-own, part-rent.

Lots of politics in the headlines this morning. The Daily Mirror leads with Labour’s plans to “undo all the damage” done by Theresa May’s “cruel regime”. The Daily Express, though, claims Jeremy Corbyn is facing a furious backlash after edging closer to supporting the campaign to overturn Brexit. The Metro is sure of one thing – it’s “crunch time” for the Labour leader.

Home Secretary Sajid Javid is under attack on the front of the Times, which says he will dismay Brexiteers by proposing that EU citizens have limitless access to the UK for 30 months in the event of a “no-deal”. The Daily Telegraph reports that Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt is leading the fight to encourage the prime minister to change tack and push for a Canada-style trade deal with the EU. Elsewhere, the bloodied face of Sgt David Budd – star of the BBC series Bodyguard – appears on many front pages with critics reacting to the series finale.

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