Liberal Democrats have signalled they intend to use their next Opposition Day debate to discuss “officially removing” Prince Andrew’s Duke of York title and his “continued use of Royal Lodge”, the Sunday Times reports. MPs will “defy years of convention” to discuss the royal’s future, who the paper says faces a “pincer movement from parliament and Buckingham Palace” to formally strip him of his dukedom and banish him from the 30-room mansion in Windsor.
An investigation into “who trolled Virginia Giuffre”, the prominent accuser of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is the lead for the Observer.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is plotting a “mansion tax raid on homes”, according to the Mail on Sunday. The paper reports she plans to impose a charge of 1% of the amount by which a property exceeds £2m, a “class war plan” which critics say would “punish hard work and aspiration”.
The chancellor’s tax plans also lead the Independent, which reports that Reeves is “under pressure” to break a Labour manifesto pledge and tax the highest earners. It comes as the chancellor looks to plug a £40bn “black hole” in the Budget.
The Sunday Telegraph reports that Labour plans to give workers a day-one right against unfair dismissal risks “crippling the jobs market”, according to the government’s “favourite” think-tank. The Resolution Foundation tells the paper that it will oppose plans that give “little obvious gains to workers”.
More than 90% of councils will house asylum seekers by the end of the year, leads the Sunday Express. Around 40,000 people will be given taxpayer-funded homes across England, the paper writes, “as ministers ramp up efforts to close migrant hotels”.
Comedian Ben Elton tells the Sunday Mirror that he “saved the most celebrated brain in showbiz” in 1992, after he took Stephen Fry to hospital following a “cocaine binge”. At the time, doctors said Fry was “minutes from death or brain damage”.
Sunday People reports on the “forest lair” of Christian Brückner, the man investigated in connection to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Brückner has not been charged and denies any involvement in the case.
“Privates on parade” is the splash for the Daily Star, which reports that the number of British troops accused of “flashing” has risen 300% in the past year.
