Rishi Sunak will pursue a “crime blitz” to “woo” red wall voters, the Sunday Express reports. These proposals include targeting young people who “terrorise neighbourhoods”, with punishments for offenders including washing police cars and cleaning up graffiti. The plans are part of a strategy to bolster the Conservatives’ hopes of re-election, the newspaper adds.
The Mail on Sunday also leads on the PM’s proposals to tackle antisocial behaviour, leading with the headline “I will let victims say how to punish yobs.” Drilling into the details of the plans, the newspaper reports Mr Sunak will give victims and local residents a say in how punishments for offenders are meted out, such as wearing shaming jumpsuits and ordering public repairs. It also leads on another royal reportedly lining up to write a tell-all memoir: this time written by Prince Andrew.
The Observer says top Tory MPs agreed to work for a fake South Korean firm for up to £10,000 a day, according to footage from a campaign group. Former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and former health secretary Matt Hancock are among a handful of high-profile MPs who offered their services. Anti-Brexit campaign group Led By Donkeys organised the meeting, which was filmed undercover. Mr Hancock told the paper it was an “illegal publication of a private conversation” and Mr Kwarteng did not respond.
The Sunday Times has a story on children as young as eight being strip-searched, according to findings from the children’s commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza. She finds almost 3,000 young people in England and Wales have been targeted in the past four years, with 24% aged between 10 and 15. The findings show that black boys account for 37% of all cases.
The Sunday Telegraph says the home secretary could ban the European Court of Human Rights from grounding the flights deporting migrants to Rwanda in a bid to appease Tory rebels. Suella Braverman is reportedly in talks with 60 Conservative MPs who are working to strip the court of its right to halt the flights, it says.
The Sunday Mirror leads on an exclusive with Strictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas, who says she may never go back to the programme after trolls “made her life hell”. It also leads on Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe expecting his first child with girlfriend Erin Darke.
The Sunday People leads on the fears of a former Met officer who believes that more killers like Wayne Couzens “lurk in the force”. The officer, who guarded royalty, claims “evil men” are still in the force, and protected by “a wall of silence”. The force came under fire in a report last week that found the Met to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic.
Extra terrestrials live among us, and could even work at the local chippy, according to the Daily Star on Sunday. The newspaper claims UFO investigators are warning aliens live among us after stealing human eggs to develop humanoid lookalikes.
