Newspaper review: Papers react to government defeats

Several papers comment on the three defeats inflicted on the government's Welfare Bill in the House of Lords.

Theand ministers have been "humiliated".

It says officials will now have to compromise with peers to avoid the bill becoming bogged down.

The- but their scale, says.

Energy bills

In theby EU laws that allow potentially incompetent foreign doctors to work in the NHS.

In a letter to the paper the heads of two royal colleges argue there are "huge variations" in the ability and training of doctors from overseas.

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Theas a "light at the end of the tunnel".

Iran bombing

The car bombing which killed an Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran elicits much concern.

Thesays the killing bore strong similarities to a string of assassinations of other nuclear scientists.

Thehas little doubt that the Israeli military was behind it.says Iranians feel under attack.

Theif the EU imposes a full oil embargo on Tehran.

'Embarrassing'

Many of the papers carry news of an attack on the government's high speed rail plans by the prime minister's father-in-law.

The Guardianby an article in the Spectator written by Lord Astor.

The Tory peer said the line would ruin the lives of thousands along the route.

Thethe Tory peer could have come down on either side.

The Sun called his attack "embarrassing".