Pope Francis ‘Favoured Ideas That Keep Poor People Poor’

There’s only one international news story in town as Parliament grinds back into gear: the death of Pope Francis. The funeral will probably be attended by a senior Royal rather than Starmer, but another jet-setting Labour minister will no doubt get the gig…

Francis’s reforming (and free market sceptic) legacy is panned in a searing screed from the Wall Street Journal editorial board this morning:

“His papacy was marked by anti-Americanism, and not merely against Donald Trump.