The Mail on Sunday’s top story, “Starmer shaken by Andy Burnham’s new coup plot”, details the Manchester Labor mayor’s apparent “deal” to become an MP. Quoting unnamed sources, the paper claims Burnham is close to reaching “an agreement to fight a by-election to return to the House of Commons and mount a leadership challenge” against Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
According to the Sun newspaper, Virginia Giuffre’s relatives declared that “justice was not served” after the Metropolitan Police stopped the investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The former prince was accused of asking his personal police officer to gather information about Giuffre. Andrew has consistently denied all allegations against him.
In the Sunday People newspaper’s lead story, Health Secretary Wes Streeting warned that “Britain is facing a flu tsunami”. Quoting Streeting, the newspaper writes that hospital admissions have risen by 50 percent “as the worst is yet to come”.
Across the UK, hospital pediatric units have been overwhelmed due to a “spike in flu cases”, leading to “children’s surgeries being cancelled”, including cardiac procedures, the Independent reports. Overcrowded wards “increase the risk of medical emergencies,” the newspaper writes.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch will “lift the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in 2030” if she defeats Labor at the next election, the Sunday Telegraph has said. Writing for the newspaper, Badenoch describes the government’s electric vehicle quota as “an act of economic self-harm” and promises to relax the commitment. The newspaper states that Downing Street insists on maintaining the ban.
The Sunday Express is leading the government’s investigation into an alleged scheme to have “failed asylum seekers and foreign criminals leave the country voluntarily”. According to the newspaper, “illegal immigrants receive help setting up a business and receive accommodation, food and travel assistance when they return to their ‘home country’. A Home Office spokesman said the claims were “untrue” and told the newspaper: “This scheme enables immigrants to return to their home country, settle down and avoid re-entering the UK for a very low fee.”
“The Department of Homeland Security is to announce a crackdown on violence against women,” reads the Sunday Mirror’s lead story, declaring it a “national emergency”. The newspaper states that crimes “will be disclosed to new partners, all police forces will have specialist units and teams will track online attackers”.
“Tens of thousands of people followed the King’s advice to check their eligibility for cancer screening,” the Sunday Times writes on its front page. This is followed by King Charles’ “candid speech about his diagnosis on Friday”, as the newspaper puts it.
On its front page, The Observer depicts the government’s social media debate as a Shakespearean dilemma: “to ban or not to ban”. Australia became the first country to impose a 16-year age limit on social media earlier this week, and the UK government is “divided” on whether a similar measure should be implemented.
“TV star Jeremy Clarkson reckons he has amassed a legion of female fans since he started hosting Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” according to the Daily Star. The newspaper calls it “the most unexpected show business of the year.”
