The Observer headlined “Blackmail over Greenland” after US President Donald Trump announced plans to “raise tariffs on the UK and European allies until Denmark takes control of the territory.” A striking image of red and white Greenland flags waved by protesters in front of snow-capped mountains dominates the front page. “Greenland is not for sale!” Read many of his posters.
The Sunday Times has led Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s anger over Trump’s tariffs. It said Trump “blindsided his NATO allies” with the move. Meanwhile, Sir Keir’s aide Darren Jones has been accused of launching a “briefing war” against Health Secretary Wes Streeting.
According to The Sunday Telegraph, Trump’s actions amount to a “trade war.” The paper highlights the Prime Minister’s comments that the tariffs are “entirely wrong” and is supported by former US National Security Adviser John Bolton in an editorial column, declaring, “This is the worst move of his presidency.” Separately, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch informed the newspaper that only the Conservatives could prevent Britain from turning into a “poodle” state.
Greenland also leads the Tariff Independent website. Trump has said the 10% trade tariffs will remain in place unless a deal to sell the Danish territory to the US is reached by early February, the newspaper reported. A photo of protesters waving Greenlandic flags in Copenhagen occupies much of the front page.
The Mail on Sunday has obtained a “secret defection memo” which it says fell into the hands of Tory leader Kemi Badenoch ahead of Robert Jenrick’s reform move. Allegations that the memo recommended Generic Shelly describe himself as the “new sheriff in town” were described by the Mail as “a bizarre conspiracy.”. In a royal exclusive, the Mail says Princess Eugenie has cut Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor out of her life.
Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, told the Sunday Express that he now had the right to unite behind his party after Jenrick defected. “They want to mess with the plumbing and we think it needs a brand new boiler,” Farage said of the differences between the Tories and Reform.
“I’ll be free,” writes the Daily Star, as it says murdered nurse Lucy Letby has told “fellow laggards and prison staff” that her sentence “will be quashed within months.”. Letby is currently serving 15 life sentences after being convicted of the murders of seven infants and the attempted murders of seven others, including two attempted murders on one of the victims.
The Sunday People reports that Strictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas has had a “brain scan following her fall.” He suffered “hospital shock” “just a few days before the tour”.
A TV row gives The Sun front-page prominence on Sundays. It reports “fury at anti-Muslim posts” found in the social media feed of a contestant on BBC One’s upcoming series, The Apprentice, who has been caught up in a “race rant storm.”. Levi Hague, the contestant, has expressed regret for using “really horrible language” in a post he wrote over a decade ago. The series is produced by an independent production company and the BBC said in a statement that it had asked the company for “further assurances on their social media checks, as the process in this case has not been completed to a satisfactory standard”.
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