It's that time of the year.The Sunday Times brings out its rich list and announces that this year,the recession has wiped £155 billion from the fortunes of Britain’s richest 1,000 people, equivalent to more than a third of their wealth.
The paper says that
The unprecedented collapse, is the biggest annual fall since it was first compiled 21 years ago.
Sleeze still seems the theme to the Sundays.The Independent reports that
David Cameron accepted an all-expenses paid trip to apartheid South Africa while Nelson Mandela was still in prison, an updated biography of the Tory leader reveals today.
Whilst the Mail reports that
Labour has been plunged into a fresh storm after a leaked email suggested that Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell promised money from the 2012 Games in exchange for the selection of a family friend as a General Election candidate.
The Express meanwhile leads with the news that James Purnell left his taxpayer-funded second home “looking like a pigsty” despite claiming more than £1,600 for cleaning and repairs.
The Observer claims that the Prime Minister is being forced into a humiliating retreat over MPs' expenses to avoid defeat in the Commons.
Ministers are now frantically seeking a compromise deal after accepting that the proposed flat-rate allowance for attending parliament, announced with great fanfare five days ago in a ground-breaking YouTube video, would be rejected in a vote. One cabinet aide said the government faced a "humiliating defeat" if it put the measures to a free vote, adding: "Even our lot won't have it."
Finally theThe Telegraph reports that the Government’s new exams that will replace GCSEs and A-levels are in crisis.It reveals
A letter signed by every exam board in England and Wales has urged ministers “in the strongest terms” to delay their new academic diplomas, or face a potential disaster.
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