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The Papers: 'We'll axe tax on overtime' and 'Brolly hot, isn't it'

Nairavoice · May 24, 2026 · 2 min read

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The Sunday Times claims police are investigating an allegation that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor “behaved inappropriately” towards a woman at Royal Ascot in 2002. It says he was at the event with Queen Elizabeth during her Golden Jubilee year. The paper adds that it is unclear whether the claim about the former prince’s behaviour at Ascot was reported to the police at the time or more recently. Mountbatten-Windsor was contacted for comment.

Reform UK’s pledge to scrap tax on overtime leads the Sunday Telegraph. The party’s leader, Nigel Farage, tells the paper that people who work extra hours “see no real reward” – and he accuses Labour of being “on the side of welfare”, rather than workers. The government says Farage is pretending to be on the side of working people – calling Reform’s idea a “back of a fag packet plan”.

Farage is also the focus of the Mail on Sunday, which says he believes his phone was hacked by Moscow. The paper carries claims by a “Reform source” that spies leaked details of a five million pound gift he received from the cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harbourne, which is now being investigated by Parliament’s standards watchdog. Farage has said he was under no obligation to declare the money, as it was received before he became an MP.

The Sunday Mirror takes aim at donations made to Reform by individuals linked to tax havens – with its headline “Farage’s Haven Us On”. The paper claims that fifteen million pounds given to Reform last year – or eighty percent of the party’s donations – came from those with ‘interests abroad’. The Mirror says there is no suggestion of wrongdoing by Reform or any of the donors.

Away from politics, the Sunday Times reports that the disgraced newsreader, Huw Edwards, has held talks with Channel 4 to make a programme in which he can “state his case”. Should it go ahead – the programme is reportedly expected to be broadcast in mid-September after Edwards’s sentence for making indecent images of children concludes. Channel 4 has declined to comment on plans to work with him.

And, the Daily Star Sunday says stadiums hosting matches for this summer’s men’s football World Cup in the US, Canada and Mexico will feature quiet rooms for fans who get overwhelmed by noise. Fifa says the spaces are “designed for people who experience sensory overload”. The Star chooses the headline: “Three lions on my SSSHHHhhirt.”