Sunday, 3 May 2009

Sunday's papers


The Sunday's have much speculation over the fate of Gordon Brown.

The Mail on Sunday reports that

Gordon Brown's future as Prime Minister was looking increasingly uncertain last night as his Labour enemies plotted to sack him and install Health Secretary Alan Johnson in No10.The attack is being led by former Home Secretary Charles Clarke, who today calls for Mr Brown’s chief Cabinet ally, Schools Secretary Ed Balls, to be fired in a clear-out of the Prime Minister’s ‘poisonous’ inner circle.
and adds that

Graham Stringer, who led an attempt to oust Mr Brown a year ago, is to meet senior Labour figures this week to decide whether to launch a full-scale assault on him.


The Observer meanwhile reports that the communities secretary, Hazel Blears, openly criticised the government's handling of the Gurkhas issue and says that voters no longer believe many of its big policy announcements.

Meanwhile the News of the World finds some more governmenty sleeze as it discovers that David Miliband is to waste hundreds of thousands of pounds on a private jet to whisk him around the world.

The Times continues the theme as it has found thata the Labour peer,Baroness Uddin, has claimed about £100,000 in parliamentary expenses on a flat in Kent that neighbours say has been unoccupied for years.

The Telegraph leads with the story that dozens of gallantry medals awarded to British troops who fought the Taliban in Helmand could be reviewed after allegations that citations were incorrect. The paper reports that

The disclosure follows the arrest of an Army major who won the Military Cross “for consistent bravery and inspirational leadership” after he allegedly exaggerated accounts of his bravery.


Finally the Independent claims that the internet is about to change for ever.The paper says that with the launch of software that will understand questions and give specific, tailored answers in a way that the web has never managed before.

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