Newspaper headlines: 'Activists target Suella' and 'Goodnight possums'

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The Sunday Telegraph says Suella Braverman is poised to ignore European courts to start deportation flights to Rwanda

The Sunday Telegraph reports that Home Secretary Suella Braverman has signalled she is prepared to ignore judges at the European Court of Human Rights in order to start deporting migrants to Rwanda.

Writing in the paper, Ms Braverman says it is "crucial" for ministers to be able to decide whether to accept rulings from Strasbourg which block deportation flights, if they are to deliver Rishi Sunak's pledge to stop small boats from crossing the Channel.

The change will be made to the Illegal Migration Bill, which returns to the Commons this week, after the government made concessions to Conservative MPs.

The Sun on Sunday has an interview with Dominic Raab, which it says was done hours after he resigned as deputy prime minister, following an inquiry into claims of bullying found he was "intimidating" and "aggressive" towards officials.

Mr Raab told the paper the findings would "stop ministers driving change, driving reform and safeguarding taxpayers' money".

Elsewhere, "'Activist' civil servants target Suella" is the headline on the front of the Sunday Express, which claims that the officials who, in its words, "drove" Mr Raab from office now have the home secretary in their sights.

It says allies of Suella Braverman have told her to prepare for a "vicious new whispering campaign" that will "take aim" at her "boats crackdown".

Senior security sources have told the Mail on Sunday that protesters are plotting to sabotage next month's coronation by throwing rape alarms at horses in the procession, raising concerns that the spooked animals could bolt into the crowds lining the streets.

It says the sources did not specify who was behind the plan, which a former Grenadier Guardsman, Julian Perreira, warned could cause the deaths of soldiers and spectators. Scotland Yard has previously vowed to clamp down on protesters who try to disrupt the event.

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According to the Sunday Times, new drivers under the age of 25 may be stopped from carrying young passengers for six months or a year after passing their test, as part of a "graduated driving licence" being considered by ministers.

It has figures from the road safety charity, Brake, which suggest that young drivers with passengers of a similar age are four times more likely to be involved in a crash than if they are driving alone.

"Goodnight possums" is the headline on the front of the Daily Star as it remembers Dame Edna Everage creator Barry Humphries, who died on Satuday at the age of 89.

The Observer says colourful tributes piled up "like appropriately lurid gladioli" to remember the comedian, who the Sunday Mirror says "brought laughter to millions".

The Sunday Telegraph carries a tribute to Barry Humphries written by him before he died, in the words and style of his beloved sharp-witted alter ego. Dame Edna says he put her on stage to get "cheap laughs" at her expense and to "ridicule the great Australian way of life", but that the tables turned and he became "merely a footnote" to her "spectacular career".