The Sunday Times – £20bn black hole coverup by Tories
The Sunday Times reports Chancellor Rachel Reeves will accuse Jeremy Hunt of presiding over a “cover-up” of the “dire state” of public finances as she announces plans to delay or scrap unfunded rail and road projects to plug an estimated £20bn black hole.
Elsewhere, the paper has an interview with British tech tycoon Mike Lynch. It’s his first interview since his return from the US, where he has spent 13 months under house arrest. A court in California cleared him of fraud and conspiracy charges relating to the sale of his software company to the technology giant Hewlett-Packard. He is calling for an overhaul of the extradition treaty between America and Britain, which critics say is one-sided. The paper says he was “put in chains” and bundled into the back row of a passenger plane when he was handed over to US marshals at Heathrow Airport.
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Editorial 28 July 2024.
Sunday’s front pages are dominated by domestic news, with UK politics and ongoing coverage of the Olympics leading the papers.
Olympic divers Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen are pictured on most of the front pages. The pair won Team GB’s first medal with a bronze in the women’s synchronised 3m springboard – becoming the first British woman in 64 years to win an Olympic diving medal.
