Newspaper headlines: 'Cash for Brexit' sting and Labour hit list By BBC News

Staff Published duration 21 January 2018

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Allies of Jeremy Corbyn are plotting to oust up to 50 moderate Labour MPs, according to the lead story in the Sunday Times.

It says they want to see more left-leaning MPs take their place. The left-wing grassroots movement Momentum tells the paper it is not campaigning for the deselection of any sitting members of parliament.

The paper uses its editorial to say the problems Theresa May is facing means Labour has the chance to "dominate the public debate as never before", but instead it is "turning in on itself".

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Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell tells the Sunday Mirror about Labour's intentions to set out an emergency budget for the NHS, if the party was in government.

Mr McDonnell says he would immediately provide an extra £5.1bn for the health service by raising the top rate of tax.

The Mirror reports there's an expectation the present government will instead "muddle through".

That isn't an option for people who "die in hospital corridors", Mr McDonnell tells the paper.

Only one-in-three Britons believe Donald Trump should enjoy a state visit to the UK, a poll for the Sunday Express suggests.

"Sorry Mr President, but our poll shows that Britain doesn't want you here", is the paper's headline.

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That might make uncomfortable reading for Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson who, writing in the Sunday Telegraph , makes what the paper calls his strongest defence yet of the UK's closeness to the US.

Mr Johnson argues that opposing a trip to the UK by President Trump would damage the national interests.

The Mail on Sunday leads with what it calls the "political storm" caused by the secret filming of three ex-Tory ministers by Channel Four's Dispatches programme.

An undercover reporter posed as a representative of Chinese millionaires, offering to pay for advice from Andrew Lansley, Andrew Mitchell, and Peter Lilley about how to make money from Brexit.

All three have denied any wrongdoing, with Mr Lilley calling it "a tawdry attempt at entrapment."

Writing in the Mail on Sunday, ex-chief whip Andrew Mitchell has strenuously denied any wrongdoing, saying he was the victim of "attempted entrapment" and is "totally innocent", and that it is not against parliamentary rules for an MP to have a second job.

The Sun on Sunday has details of what it calls "Britain's biggest burglary".

It reports that James Stunt had cash, gold and jewels worth £90m stolen from his Belgravia home in London.

The paper says the raid occurred just months after Mr Stunt's divorce from the Formula One heiress Petra Ecclestone.

Finally, the Sunday Telegraph finds that Kazakhstan's attempts to assert its autonomy from Russia by replacing the Cyrillic alphabet with Latin characters has "hit an unlikely snag"; the apostrophe.