Newspaper headlines: PM skips 'sleaze showdown' and MP's tax haven job

There's plenty of reaction on the front pages to the latest Commons skirmishes about sleaze.

Metro has the headline "I'm a prime minister - get me out of here", after Boris Johnson missed yesterday's debate, while HuffPost UK simply asks: "Have You Seen This Man?"

The online-only Independent highlights quotes from Sir Keir Starmer, accusing the PM of "running scared".

The Guardian also uses a soundbite from the Labour leader, saying Mr Johnson is leading the Tory party "through the sewers".

The paper dedicates the majority of an inside page to listing all the scandals that have affected Mr Johnson's government - alongside a rating system for how damaging they would be if corruption could be proven, and ideas about how that could be achieved.

The Daily Express - in a rare rebuke - implores the prime minister to apologise for attempting to change the rules on MPs' disciplinary processes - an action the i newspaper's policy editor, Jane Merrick, says "would go some way to restoring trust in the Tory party".

The Daily Mirror has a picture of Boris Johnson on a visit to a hospital while the debate was taking place across its front page, alongside the headline: "No Apology, No Shame, No Respect, and No Mask".

The paper's head of politics, Jason Beattie, ponders whether the prime minister's reputation as a so-called "Teflon politician" may now be damaging his prospects - as "he only became more certain of his infallibility".

The Daily Mail reports that the former attorney general, Geoffrey Cox, voted remotely in Parliament during lockdown while working in the Caribbean.

There is no implication that he broke the rules on MPs having second jobs.

The Sun, meanwhile, claims that 12 MPs were paid a combined £3.5m for undertaking work outside Westminster over two years.

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The Daily Telegraph says that more than 11,500 people have died in the UK after contracting Covid in hospital.

It says the revelation has prompted fresh calls for vaccinations for NHS staff to become compulsory.

The paper's leader also weighs in on the subject, criticising the government for leaving it so late to introduce such a policy.

It says "we should have had this debate in the summer, when the ramifications could have been foreseen and managed, not on the verge of winter".

The Times accuses China and Saudi Arabia of blocking efforts to reach a deal at the COP26 summit.

It says they are refusing to accept that they must be fully transparent about their greenhouse gas emissions.

The front pages of the Financial Times and the Scotsman both feature pictures of Barack Obama addressing delegates at the conference in Glasgow, with the latter saying the former president issued a rallying cry to the world to do more to tackle climate change.

The Daily Star leads with a warning that a shortage of Walkers crisps in UK shops could last for at least a month.

The paper claims the reduced stocks - which the company has blamed on an IT problem - have led to packets being listed for sale online for £8 each.