The Sunday Times leads on its report that Nigel Farage failed to disclose benefits provided by a convicted criminal in the year before he entered Parliament, external. The paper says the Reform UK leader accepted staff, security and accommodation paid for by George Cottrell, who was jailed for eight months for his involvement in a money laundering scheme in the US. Farage’s team have denied any rules were broken.
The Mail on Sunday’s front page claims Andy Burnham will lower the threshold for the so-called mansion tax, external, if he becomes Prime Minister. The paper says the change would see homes worth £1.5m included in the levy, hitting more than 150,000 families with tax increases.
Sir Tony Blair’s think tank has urged Andy Burnham not to increase capital gains tax, external, according to the Sunday Telegraph. The paper says the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has issued a “stark warning” – arguing the country can’t “tax our way to prosperity”. Burnham is understood to be considering bringing capital gains tax – which typically applies to real estate, shares and investments – in line with income tax, according to the report.
The National Crime Agency is warning parents not to share pictures of their children on the internet, after what the Sunday Mirror calls a surge in sexualised AI images of young people appeared online., external The report says a school was targeted by gangs who used pictures of pupils to create the images and threatened to release them if payment was not made. According to the paper, almost 3,500 such images were discovered by analysts last year, compared to 13 in 2024.
The Sunday Express leads on what it calls the “troubled” HS2 high speed rail project. It says bosses have spent £77m in one year on consultants, external, who were hired to find out what work had been done for the near £47bn spent so far. “Off the rails” says the paper’s headline. HS2 told the Express that consultants were being employed to help with a “reset” designed to improve the way the project was managed.
Many front pages are looking ahead to England’s World Cup last-16 game against Mexico earky on Monday morning. The Sunday Mirror calls the U-turn on an earlier kick-off time a “fiasco”, external and says pub landlords have been frantically changing their rotas. The Sun on Sunday strikes a more positive tone by quoting the team’s captain, Harry Kane, who says he wants the country to be toasting their win until dawn, external. The Daily Star claims German fans are rallying behind England, external due to the Three Lion’s manager, Germany’s Thomas Tuchel. Its headline reads “Komm schon England” – which it says translates to, come on England.
