'Navalny killed by frog toxin' and 'There must be probe into envoy Andrew'








The Sunday Telegraph reports that the Defence Secretary, John Healey, is being lined up by Labour rebels to challenge Sir Keir Starmer for the party leadership. The paper says Mr Healey is seen as the 'unity' candidate drawing support from all sides of the party. The moderate wing of MPs is said to believe that the Health Secretary Wes Streeting has become too "toxic", after he published his Whatsapp messages with Lord Mandelson.
The Mail on Sunday leads on more claims about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor when he was a UK trade envoy. The paper says that documents released by the US Department of Justice show he leaked sensitive information about the Royal Bank of Scotland, to one of Jeffrey Epstein's advisers in 2010. The Mail says there is now a "clamour of demands" for a full investigation by police and ministers into his conduct while in the role. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has always denied any wrongdoing.
Meanwhile, the Sunday Times quotes the Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales, Stephen Parkinson, saying that "nobody is above the law" as, the paper says, pressure grows for a full investigation into the former Duke of York. Mr Parkinson tells the paper he has "total confidence" that detectives will examine any relevant evidence that would point to criminality.
Ministers are set to delay publication of the government's definition of Islamophobia, according to the Sunday Telegraph. The paper says they want to wait until after the Gorton and Denton by-election; a Labour source explains that the government is worried about, in their words, "the Muslim fallout". The Department of Housing, Communities and Local government tells the Telegraph the story is speculation and it's carefully considering the recommendations of a working group.
The Sunday Mirror carries extracts from a new biography of the Prince and Princess of Wales which describes how William was in a "state of disbelief" before he and his wife told their children she had cancer. The book's author and the paper's Royal Editor, Russell Myers, reveals how Prince William told friends the diagnosis was "sudden, brutal and completely disorientating".
Charities warn in the Sunday Express that a rise in the state pension age will plunge more than a hundred thousand people into poverty. The paper says the pensionable age of 66 will rise by a month in April and keep increasing until it reaches 67 in March 2028. Age UK tells the Express that many those affected are not aware of the changes and it will "crush a generation" struggling with soaring bills. The Department for Work and Pensions says it's committed to tackling poverty among all ages.
A UK exam board chief tells the Observer that children could be taking half of their GCSEs and A-levels on screens, within a decade. Colin Hughes, from AQA, says replacing some pen and paper exams with digital assessments would make the system "more secure" and "fairer" particularly for children with special educational needs.

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