What the papers say: Castro, Carney and Brexit

The Daily Mail calls those who ‘heaped adulation’ on Fidel Castro over the weekend – including the likes of Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell – ‘useful idiots’. The paper says after Castro’s death on Saturday, the Cuban leader’s supporters are ignoring the ‘poverty he inflicted on his people’ as well as his torturing of political opponents and the fact that he ‘failed his people abysmally’. So why, the Mail asks, do those like the Labour leader have such a different view of the former Cuban leader? The paper suggests in its editorial that there is a simple answer: ‘Messrs Corbyn, McDonnell and Co have never grown up since their student days’.

Meanwhile, the Mail also takes a pop at Mark Carney. It says that the Bank of England governor is being something of a hypocrite after criticising the PM for ‘trespassing on his patch’ when she spoke out against low interest rates. Isn’t Carney doing the same ‘with his suggestion that Britain should remain in the EU until 2021,’ the Mail asks? The