Newspaper headlines: Sunak's speech and Nigeria 'mad for Meghan'

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Newspaper headlines: Sunak's speech and Nigeria 'mad for Meghan'

The UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will give a speech on Monday ahead of the next general election, according to a number of papers. In his speech, Mr. Sunak will stress that the UK is at a “crossroads” and its place in the world is in a “defining period”. The Times reports Mr. Sunak will also warn of the threat that “colluding authoritarian states” pose for the UK and speak of the need for the country to have “bold vision” and “huge opportunities”. The Daily Telegraph reports that the prime minister will claim that the electorate are safer under the current government for the “dangerous years ahead”.

The Daily Mail and The Telegraph both report on a study which suggests that obese people are up to twice as likely to take time off work resulting in a “worklessness crisis” that is stifling the UK’s economic growth. Experts cited by The Telegraph say that Britain’s record is among the worst of 28 countries – with over half of adults overweight or obese.

The i reports that more than a million people in the past three years have taken out mortgages which will last into their last 60s, putting them at risk of poverty in old age. In other news, the BBC’s Happy Valley and Netflix’s Top Boy were among the winners of two awards each at the Bafta TV awards ceremony, according to the i.

The Metro reports that experts have compared victims of the contaminated blood scandal to “laboratory chimpanzees”. The scandal involved over 30,000 people in the UK being infected with HIV and Hepatitis C after being given contaminated blood products during the 1970s and 1980s. The Financial Times reports on the war in Ukraine, stating that Russian forces are pushing “farther into the Kharkiv region”, and that the situation in the region has “significantly worsened

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