Newspaper review: Cameron's welfare speech dominates
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Paper Review
David Cameron's ideas for the future of the welfare system give Tuesday's newspapers plenty to consider.
The <link> <caption>Sun backs the prime minister's overall message</caption> <url href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/sun_says/4392279/The-Sun-says-Cut-back-back-kids.html" platform="highweb"/> </link> that the welfare bill is out of hand.
But the <link> <caption>Daily Mail</caption> <url href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163773/David-Cameron-axe-housing-benefits-feckless-25s-declares-war-welfare-culture.html" platform="highweb"/> </link> says many of the policies were not well thought through and are unlikely to happen soon.
And the <link> <caption>Daily Mirror thinks Mr Cameron has dropped any pretence of compassionate Conservatism</caption> <url href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/opinion/news-opinion/voice-of-the-mirror/voice-of-the-mirror-targeting-low-income-families-940340" platform="highweb"/> </link> and made a calculated attack on the impoverished.
For its main story, the <link> <caption>Times</caption> <url href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/" platform="highweb"/> </link> says people who commit offences linked to the Olympics will face instant justice under plans to deal with troublemakers.
A Crown Prosecution Service representative says lessons from the summer riots have been learned.
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, in the Sun, <link> <caption>urges Conservative MPs to support Labour's efforts to get the government to scrap its 3p rise in fuel duty. </caption> <url href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4394743/Labour-urge-Tories-to-reject-3p-fuel-duty-rise.html" platform="highweb"/> </link>
The Sun agrees that hitting motorists again would damage the economy.
<link> <caption>The Guardian reports that the lives of 900 babies could be saved every year</caption> <url href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/25/stillbirths-900-preventable-england" platform="highweb"/> </link> if the rate of stillbirths in England's poorest areas was as low as it is in the most affluent areas.
One of the authors of the study the story is based on tells the paper the reason for the inequality is not clear.
Minders for Jay-Z intervened after his wife, singer Beyonce, was verbally abused, <link> <caption>the Daily Star reports.</caption> <url href="http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/258800/Jay-Z-minders-in-backstage-Beyonce-brawl/" platform="highweb"/> </link>
It says the fracas occurred at 成人快手 Radio 1's Hackney Weekend event.
England's defeat to Italy in a penalty shoot out continues to generate news.
<link> <caption>The Sun says racist trolls could face prison after making abusive comments about Ashley Cole and Ashley Young</caption> <url href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4394659/Racist-trolls-target-Ashley-Young-and-Ashley-Cole.html" platform="highweb"/> </link> on Twitter after they missed penalties.
The <link> <caption>Daily Telegraph</caption> <url href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/" platform="highweb"/> </link> says the focus of the British sporting summer now switches to Andy Murray at Wimbledon.
And <link> <caption>the Financial Times</caption> <url href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/fdc05610-bef2-11e1-bebe-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1ys5cDJ46" platform="highweb"/> </link> sees the start of the tennis tournament, and Murray's seemingly inevitable exit, as the next phase in British sporting agony.