US President Donald Trump has given Iran a “hellfire ultimatum” and is preparing alongside Israel to “dramatically escalate attacks”, the Sunday Telegraph reports. Two grinning University of Oxford rowers are splashed across the front page as the women’s team won their race against Cambridge University for the first time since 2016.
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer “slams Kanye gig after Nazi row”, headlines The Sun. The rapper, who goes by Ye, has been booked to perform at Wireless Festival, which the PM has said is “deeply concerning”. The festival booking follows years of widespread criticism of Ye for antisemitic comments, which the rapper later publicly apologised for. In January Ye said he is “not a Nazi or an antisemite”.
The Observer carries “a picture of home” for its lead – a photo of Earth from Nasa’s Artemis II as it winds its way towards the Moon. The paper teases a piece titled, “Washington, we have a problem”, “Trump’s chaos on earth.”
“Drill, Ed, Drill” urges the Daily Mail as “fuel prices soar”. The paper says research conducted by former Conservative deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft suggests voters want Energy Secretary Ed Miliband to “ditch his Net Zero obsession and untap the North Sea oil and gas”. The Mail includes a quote from Miliband last week saying: “people who say new exploration licences will somehow create huge amounts of energy for us” are “just wrong”.
It is the “end for toxic chemicals in Britain’s sofas” heralds the Sunday Times in an investigation into flame retardants used in couches. The government has changed rules that required British sofas to include toxic flame retardant, which isn’t used in other parts of the world, it writes.
The Sunday Express claims that a “Brexit reset will cost UK £3bn a year”. It says Sir Keir has been accused of “quietly signing Britain up to Brussels” as part of an “ambitious” new trade deal. The paper quotes a UK government spokeswoman saying: “Our deal with the EU supports businesses by removing the costly red tape that holds back our exporters from our largest trading partner.”
A call to “slash our spending on Royals” leads the Sunday Mirror. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been told that the “taxpayer handout” to the Royal Family “should be cut in the wake of the scandal over Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.” A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said: “The Sovereign Grant is reviewed every five years by the Royal Trustees, which include the Chancellor, to ensure the level of funding for the Royal Household remains appropriate”.
Lucy Letby, the nurse who is serving 15 whole-life terms for murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more, now “fears she could be murdered”, reports the Daily Star. This comes after the deaths of prisoners Ian Huntley and Ian Watkins, who both died after being injured in prison. A spokesman for Sodexo, which runs HMP Bronzefield, told the paper they do not comment on individual prisoners.
The Sunday People headlines on the “betrayal of a hero”. It reports that an Afghan translator who fled the Taliban to the UK has serious injuries after an alleged assault.
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