‘White House anger over UK spy case’ and ‘Pensions tax raid’
The White House has warned that the collapse of the case against two men accused of spying for China “risks undermining the special relationship” between Britain and the US, according to the Sunday Times. A senior Trump official told the newspaper that the United States is being “extremely cautious in sharing information with foreign governments subject to the pressure and influence of adversaries.”
The Daily Express reports that chancellor Rachel Reeves is considering a £7bn “tax raid” on pensioners in a bid to “blast a black hole in her budget”. According to experts cited by the newspaper, Reeves could increase taxes on retirement contributions and retirees’ withdrawals.
Yet the Sunday Telegraph writes that rich people will be forced to “contribute more” to the Chancellor’s budget. A Treasury source told the newspaper that Reeves was ready to make “difficult decisions” but insisted there would be no “return to austerity”. The front page also includes a photo of relatives of Israeli hostages, which will be released by Hamas on Monday.
“We’re in this together,” the Duke of York told late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2011, the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported. The emails appear to contradict Prince Andrew’s claim in a 2019 BBC Newsnight interview that he “never had contact” with Epstein after they were photographed together in New York in 2010.
Multiple documents lead to the death of disgraced pedophile Ian Watkins, who was attacked while serving a 29-year prison sentence for child sexual offenses on HMS Wakefield. The Sunday Mirror reported that the former Lostprophets frontman was “ambushed” while in prison.
The Daily Star headline “beast slain” reports that Watkins had his “throat slit” in an attack by a fellow inmate.
A photograph of Watkins also appears on the front page of the Sunday People, but the paper begins with comments from former prime minister Gordon Brown urging voters to “fight Farage”. In an interview with the newspaper, Brown said the Reform UK leader’s funding cuts would bring “more pain” to children and pensioners.
The entire front page of the Observer is devoted to a photograph of a Palestinian family walking through rubble on their way back to Gaza City.
