‘Meltdown in Downing Street’: front pages batter Johnson after ‘Black Thursday’

Cost of living crisis, departure of top aides and Rishi Sunak's rebuke dominate the newspapers on another bad day for the PM

Three big stories dominate Friday's front pages - and none of them are good news for Boris Johnson. Editors were spoilt for choice with the big squeeze" in living standards, the bloodbath" of departing Downing Street aides and Rishi Sunak's less-than-total backing for his leader.

Several papers combine the stories in what the Mail calls Meltdown in Downing Street" above an image of a forlorn-looking prime minister and the subhead, will the last one to leave please turn out the lights" evoking the Sun's infamous 1992 election front page.