The Sunday Telegraph reports, external that Chancellor John Healey has warned of more “cost-of-living pain” because of the Iran war, but says he’ll be “hands on” to protect the public. He’s written in the paper that he’ll be watching closely for any suggestion of people being “ripped off” when shopping for essential groceries, or filling up their car at the petrol pump.
According to the Sunday Times, external, Nigel Farage struck a deal to return as the leader of Reform UK months before the 2024 General Election much earlier than he has said. Sources have told the paper there were negotiations in March and April 2024. A Reform UK spokesman is quoted dismissing the report as misinformation, or mischief-making.
A couple of the papers carry accounts of what happened when tens of thousands of migrants crossed into the Spanish territory of Ceuta last week. The Sunday Times says, external the border crossing “had been brewing for weeks”. The paper adds there have been claims the event has been linked to posts on social media promising an easy path to Europe.
The front page of The Mail on Sunday, external features a photograph of a Spanish soldier checking on two men who have collapsed on the beach at Ceuta due to exhausation. The Sun on Sunday, external has spoken one of those who crossed from Morocco. Twenty-six-year-old Mohammed Mounsessef says he swam for 40 minutes, wearing a backpack, describing the journey as “very very dangerous”. The paper says he expressed a desire to come to the UK, to change his life.
“It’s been a hellish week for Gianni Infantino” writes the Sunday Telegraph, external as the fallout continues from the Fifa president’s failed plan to sell stakes in the World Cup. The Sunday Times says, external he’s “battling to save his job” as his opponents step up efforts to force him to resign. “Time to go” declares the Sunday Mirror, external. The Observer says, external Gianni Infantino’s journey from “unassailable power to abject humiliation seems almost complete”, summing up with the headline “own goal”.
