Newspaper headlines: 'Johnson will attend COP27' and 'Truss hacked'

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By BBC News
Staff

"Kremlin hacked Truss's mobile," is The Mail on Sunday's main headline. It says Putin cyber-spies are suspected of having "gained access to top-secret exchanges....as well as private conversations" from Liz Truss's personal phone, when she was foreign secretary.

One source tells the paper that the mobile was so heavily compromised, it's been placed in a locked safe at a secure location. The government hasn't commented on the detail of the report.

The same story is on the front of the Daily Star on Sunday. "Lettuce Liz hacked by Mad Vlad," reads its headline. The paper asks: "Is it the tip of the iceberg?"

The government's climate tsar, Alok Sharma, takes a swipe in The Sunday Times at Rishi Sunak's decision not to attend the upcoming COP27 summit. Mr Sharma - who was removed from the Cabinet last week, but will lead the UK negotiating team - tells the paper that the prime minister risks undermining Britain's position as a world leader on green issues, if he sticks to his decision.

The Observer reports of "alarm" at No 10 that Boris Johnson is planning to travel to the climate conference in Egypt, which starts next Sunday. The Observer says the former prime minister's attendance would be "potentially explosive", after Mr Sunak announced he wouldn't go because of "pressing domestic challenges".

The Sunday Mirror reports that supporters of Mr Sunak, with interests in oil, gas and aviation, helped fund his leadership race. It says more than a quarter of the £530,000 donated to the new prime minister this year was from donors with fossil fuel links.

The paper says there's no suggestion that Mr Sunak has done anything wrong in accepting the donations - but believes it raises questions about his commitment to tackling climate change.

"Sunak to stamp out 'woke' policing," is the Sunday Telegraph's headline. A government source tells the paper that the prime minister wants to get officers "back on the front line, doing what they are supposed to do, which is preventing and solving crime".

The Sunday Express says that, as part of a series of spending cuts, the new prime minister is set to axe what it calls a £250m "vanity project" planned by Boris Johnson when he was at the helm.

It says Mr Johnson had hoped a flagship yacht would become an emblem of Britain's global power and drum up trade.

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