Former Labour minister Elliot Morley, who claimed £16,000 interest payments for a 'phantom' mortgage, is seen as the most likely politician to be charged.
The Telegraph claims that tax authorities are investigating 27 MP's as well as reporting that Sir Robert Atkins,a Conservative MEP used £70,000 of parliamentary allowances to pay his wife and run an office in his manor house gave himself two months extra holiday last year.
The Independent leads with Darfur,a region which has been out of the headlines recently where it says
The Lord's Resistance Army, one of the most feared guerrilla groups in Africa, has moved into intelligence sources in Sudan say.The unexpected move by the LRA comes just as the war-weary west of Sudan recedes from world headlines and after the UN mission there had tentatively declared the fighting to be over.
According to the Guardian
The government programme aimed at preventing Muslims from being lured into violent extremism is being used to gather intelligence about innocent people who are not suspected of involvement in terrorism
Meanwhile most of the papers report on the news that the British Government must publish US intelligence material about the torture allegedly suffered by Binyam Mohamed, a former Guantanamo Bay inmate, the High Court has ruled.
David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, said the Government will appeal against the ruling, which came despite his warnings that publication would be a major threat to British national security. says the Telegraph
The Times says that,Britain was roundly criticised last night after opting out of a controversial United Nations vote that condemned Israel for war crimes.
Peter Gooderham, the British Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, blamed wrecking tactics by other countries for his failure even to abstain. Britain had been involved in efforts to wrest last-ditch concessions from Israel amid warnings that the resolution before the UN Human Rights Council would do irrevocable harm to the Middle East peace process.
The Guardian reports that
Britain and the United States are attempting to avert a political crisis in Afghanistan as fears mounted in Kabul that Hamid Karzai will refuse to accept the results of an official inquiry into massive electoral fraud that is expected to trigger a fresh round of voting.
The Times leads with an exclusive as Britain prepares for postal strikes
The trade union leader planning two days of crippling nationwide postal strikes next week has said he is more powerful than Arthur Scargill was in the 1980s.
In an interview with the paper
Billy Hayes signalled that he was willing to order further industrial action in the run-up to Christmas if Royal Mail and the Government fail to accede to demands for independent arbitration.
The Guardian meanwhile reports that
Gordon Brown has decided to take a tougher line against "vested interest" occupations he believes are blocking public sector reform, including doctors, police, bankers and post office workers, cabinet sources say.
Asylum fiasco is the lead in the Express which reports that a plane-load of Iraqis was turned away at Baghdad – and sent back to Britain.
The shaming return of the £250,000 taxpayer-funded flight highlighted the Government’s incompetence in tackling illegal immigration. And it prompted calls for reforms to stop more bogus migrants breaching our borders.
According to the Mail
Banks are offering crippling mortgage loans of up to 5.5 times salary in a further sign that the lessons of the credit crunch have been forgotten.An investigation by the housing charity Shelter found a worker with an income of £28,000 could borrow more than £153,000 from one high street bank.
Finally for the second time this week,social media rallies the people.As the Independent reports
More than 1,000 people complained to the Press Complaints Commission yesterday after an article in the Daily Mail newspaper that apparently linked the Boyzone singer's death to his homosexuality.adding that
Columnist Jan Moir argued that the death of Gately, who was in a gay marriage, struck "another blow to the happy-ever-after myth of civil partnerships".
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