INFORMING BRITAIN PRESS PREVIEW: MONDAY 17 MARCH 2025 | TOMORROW'S PAPERS TODAY AT INFORMING BRITAIN

Welcome to your official rundown of headlines on a selection of British Newspapers' Front Pages for Monday 17 March 2025.

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This is a selection of newspaper publications from Britain, it may not be all of the Front Pages.

If the leading story is available, links will be provided.
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The Yorkshire Post: "HOPES OF U-TURN ON DISABILITY BENEFITS"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Victoria Finan

Plans to cut payment could be scrapped.
A rumoured freeze to Disability Benefits may be scrapped following divisions among Labour MPs.

The Guardian: "ANGER GROWS OVER STARMER'S '£675 A MONTH' DISABILITY CUTS"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Jessica Elgot

Keir Starmer is to defy anger by driving through welfare cuts for some of the UK's most severely disabled people.

FULL REPORT: TheGuardian.com/world/2025/mar/16/starmer-to-drive-through-welfare-cuts-that-could-affect-uks-most-severely-disabled

The Daily Telegraph: "PHILLIPSON UNDER FIRE FOR BOWING TO UNIONS"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Poppy Wood

Bridget Phillipson must pause her reforms in England before the damage is done, says Amanda Spielman.

FULL REPORT: Telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/16/labour-dismantling-englands-education-system-ofsted/

The Scotsman: "TALKS OVER 100 YEAR LEASE OF TOP SCOTTISH GOLF COURSE"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Martyn McLaughlin

One of Britain's most prized sporting venues could be controlled by a group of private investors.
Financiers could be in charge until 22ⁿᵈ century.

The Times: "LABOUR WAR OF WORDS ON DISABILITY BENEFITS"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Steven Swinford

Britain is overdiagnosing Mental Health conditions and people are being "written off", Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said.

Scottish Daily Mail: "MINISTER SHAMED OVER IPAD BILL QUITS HOLYROOD"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Dan Barker

Shamed former Health Secretary Michael Matheson has become the latest SNP politician to quit Holyrood amid an exodus of nationalist MSPs.

FULL REPORT: DailyMail.co.uk/news/article-14505295

Daily Mail: "DEATH OF THE WORK ETHIC"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Sam Merriman / John-Paul Ford Rojas

A generation of young people risk languishing on benefits after one in four said they considered quitting the workforce.

The Independent: "'NO CEASEFIRE WILL WORK' MEDICS ON UKRAINE FRONT SCORN TRUMP'S PEACE TALKS"
LEAD STORY CORRESPONDENT: Sam Kiley
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The Independent leads with a Special Dispatch edition focusing on Donald Trump's dealings with a potential ceasefire in Ukraine.

FULL REPORT: Independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-ceasefire-medics-russia-war-rebekah-maciorowski-b2716109.html