Year: 2021

The Metro dedicates its front page to cyclist Jason Kenny, who became Britain’s most successful ever Olympian after winning his seventh gold medal.

Great Britain’s success at the Olympics makes the front of the Sun, after the Tokyo games ended on Sunday. It marks “the greatest achievement in British Olympic history,” said Mark England.

The Sun says RAGING Boris Johnson threatened to demote Rishi Sunak as tensions between the two spilled into the open, it was revealed.

Evening Standard says you can tell it’s summer recess when certain stories take off and run for days. This week’s? Sunak versus Johnson.

Daily Mail says the PM believes Mr Sunak was guilty of ‘a failure of political judgment’ in a letter to him complaining about the UK’s travel rules.

The i says Rishi Sunak’s allies have leapt to his defence amid rumours the Prime Minister considered demoting him.

Jason Kenny has become Britain’s most decorated Olympian after winning gold in the men’s keirin at Tokyo 2020, a victory that has put on hold talk of an end to his glittering career on the track.

Fully jabbed people can now visit France without quarantining on their return to the UK, following the latest update to the UK travel rules that came into force at 04:00 BST. 

Team GB has matched their medal count from London 2012 on the final day of the Tokyo Games – with 65 medals won. 

The Sunday papers lead with the climate crisis and pleas to cut travel test costs to save summer, the papers cover the relationship between prime minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak after reports the PM plans to demote the chancellor at the next cabinet reshuffle.