There is a huge mix of stories on the front pages of Sunday newspapers. The Sunday Telegraph has led with the story that Chancellor Rachel Reeves is “launching a war on waste” by taking advice from private experts to find savings across the government. It comes “amid growing uneasiness” from the party over the economy, as well as mounting economic pressure ahead of the spending review, the newspaper reports. Pictured on the front page is a scene from Los Angeles, where, says the Telegraph, “firefighters can only watch and hope” as water is dropped from the air on the blaze that is devastating the city.
The Sunday Times also shared a photo of a helicopter dropping water on the Los Angeles fires. The newspaper’s lead story is calls for Treasury Secretary Tulip Siddiqui to resign amid “revelations” about her family’s finances. Siddiq, who is responsible for tackling corruption in Britain’s financial markets, was named in an investigation into claims that his family embezzled up to £3.9 billion from infrastructure spending in Bangladesh. A separate investigation by the Sunday Times alleged she lived at properties in London with her aunt Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted as Bangladesh’s prime minister last year. The report said Siddiq has turned himself in to the Prime Minister’s Standards Advisor and insists he has done nothing wrong.
A senior Labor minister has warned Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg that new laws to tackle hate speech and online safety are “not up for negotiation”, the Observer reports. Technology Secretary Peter Kyle told the newspaper that recent laws “will never be weakened to help the government lure big tech companies to the UK for growth”.
“Nine-jobs Nigel” is the headline of the Sunday Mirror as it reports on the eight other jobs that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has done on top of being an MP. The “side-hustle” has earned Faraz “£571,585 in less than six months”, it says, and quotes him as saying: “I work more hours a week than most people can even imagine Can’t.” The newspaper estimates that being MP for Clacton in Essex is Farage’s “lowest paid job”.
Former Vote Leave chief Dominic Cummings is “helping to carry out Elon Musk’s scathing attacks on British politicians”, The Mail on Sunday has revealed. According to unnamed government sources, Cummings “has been communicating with Musk on WhatsApp”, the newspaper says. The online version of the story said neither Cummings nor Musk responded to requests for comment.
“Game-changing new treatment” using artificial intelligence in IVF treatment leads Sunday Express. It says AI can identify “the strongest sperm and best quality eggs”, thereby “maximising the chances of success”. It quoted the first woman to become pregnant with the help of AI as saying it was “like a miracle”.
The lead story in The Sun on Sunday details pop star Max George undergoing emergency surgery to have a pacemaker fitted. The Wanted star told the newspaper, “I felt like I was dying. The first night in the hospital I wrote a will.”
The Sunday People has come up with a story that England football star Wayne Rooney is now coaching children. The digital version of the story reports that the former England striker has been conducting post-holiday coaching sessions at a luxury hotel in Dubai during the February school half-term.
“Multi-tasking turns you into a half-wit,” declares the Daily Star Sunday. Quoting the usual Star “boffins”, it says the brain can’t cope with too many different activities at once – good news for Britons who haven’t mastered this skill.
