Newspaper headlines: ‘Kicking up a storm’ and ‘Burnham plots homes tax raid’
The Sunday Times leads Report says Nigel Farage failed to disclose benefits for a convicted criminal in the year before he entered Parliament, external. The newspaper notes that the Reform UK leader accepted the staff, security and accommodation costs of George Cottrell, who was sentenced to eight months in prison in the US for his involvement in a money laundering scheme. Farage’s team denied any rules were broken.
The front page of The Mail on Sunday Andy Burnham’s so-called mansion tax threshold will be lowered, he claims, externalIf he becomes Prime Minister. The paper says the change will include homes worth £1.5 million in tax and affect more than 150,000 families with tax increases.
Sir Tony Blair’s think tank urges Andy Burnham not to increase capital gains tax, externalAccording to the Sunday Telegraph. The newspaper says the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has issued a “stark warning”, arguing that the country “cannot tax its way to prosperity”. According to the report, Burnham is understood to be considering aligning capital gains tax, which generally applies to real estate, shares and investments, with income tax.
National Crime Agency warns parents not to share photos of their children online after Sunday Mirror reveals A surge in sexualized AI images of young people has emerged online., external The report states that a school was targeted by gangs who created images using students’ images and threatened to release them if payment was not made. According to the article, nearly 3,500 such images were discovered by analysts last year, compared to 13 in 2024.
The Sunday Express is leading what it calls the “troubled” HS2 high-speed rail project. Bosses reportedly spend £77million a year on consultants, externalPeople hired to find out what work has been done to pay for the nearly £47bn spent so far. The newspaper’s headline reads “derailed”. HS2 told the Express that consultants had been hired to assist with a “reset” designed to improve the way the project was managed.
Many front pages are eagerly awaiting England’s World Cup last 16 match against Mexico Earky on Monday morning. Sunday Mirror Calls U-turn on earlier kick-off a ‘fiasco’, external and bar owners are frantically changing course, he says. On Sunday, The Sun struck a more positive tone, quoting the team’s captain, Harry Kane: He said he wanted the country to celebrate its victories until dawn., external. Daily Star Claims German fans rally behind England, external Thanks to German Thomas Tuchel, manager of the Three Lions. Its title reads “Komm schon England” – which, he says, means “Come on England”.
