Thursday's national newspaper front pages

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See you on Thursday night for a first look at Friday's front pages.

Sir Keir Starmer is facing a backlash from senior Labour figures and female MPs for allowing right-wing Conservative Natalie Elphicke to join the party, The Times reports.

British Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron will call on the EU to be "tougher and more assertive" in the face of Russian and Chinese aggression, The Daily Telegraph reports.

Prince Harry and his father the King were two miles apart in London on Tuesday but did not meet, the Daily Mirror reports.

The prime minister and Tory election strategists are relying on an economic boost to close the gap with Labour ahead of the next election, but one polling expert has said they "need a miracle", i reports.

A girl born completely deaf can now hear after having world-leading gene therapy in an NHS trial, the Metro reports.

"Tory turncoat" Natalie Elphicke and Sir Keir Starmer "faced outrage from both sides of the House" over their "shameless political pact", the Daily Express reports. 

Some of the "best words in the English language", such as "plonker" and "git", are dying out because "young plonkers and gits don't know what they mean", the Daily Star reports.

Hundreds of the world's leading climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C above pre-industrial levels this century, "blasting past internationally agreed targets", The Guardian reports.

Fifty corporate winners from the pandemic have lost roughly $1.5tn in market value since the end of 2020 as investors turn their backs on many of the stocks that rocketed during early lockdowns, according to the Financial Times.