The Independent
Thursday, 26 February 2026
Speaker's 'Flight Risk' Alert & Meghan's Refugee Camp Goal: Thursday 26 February 2026
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The Independent, Thursday 26 February 2026, prominently features the Commons Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, admitting he tipped off police about Peter Mandelson being a "flight risk" to the British Virgin Islands, leading to the Labour ex-peer’s arrest. Inside the paper, it's revealed the Metropolitan Police later apologised after disclosing Sir Lindsay as the tip-off source to Mandelson's lawyers. A large central image captures Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, actively kicking a football with children in a Jordan refugee camp, vividly illustrating her "scores on visit to Syrian children" headline. Other front page stories include the government denying a minister's claim that the Chagos Islands deal was paused, and a column by Esme Gordon Craig discussing why Gen Z women are not having babies, both expanded upon inside the paper.
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