Newspaper headlines: PM's pro-car pledge and 'EU holiday chaos'

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By BBC News
Staff
PA Media

The Sunday Times reports that Rishi Sunak will announce funding for a multi-million pound carbon capture scheme in Aberdeenshire on Monday.

The paper says the project would allow greenhouse gas emissions to be stored under the North Sea while allowing oil and gas production to continue.

Energy Secretary Grant Shapps tells the Sun on Sunday that Labour's plans to stop new drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea would lead to "lights going out" around the UK. Mr Shapps brands Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's proposals "insane".

But a spokesman for Labour tells the paper they won't "take any lessons" on energy policy from the Conservatives. who they said had left Britain "at the mercy of tyrants across the world".

The Sunday Mirror accuses the prime minister of "provoking outrage" by taking a 200 mile (320km) journey on a Conservative Party donor's helicopter - all while, as the paper puts it, the "world fries".

It claims the trip from London to North Wales would have taken just 10 minutes longer by train. Downing Street says Mr Sunak's travel plans make the best use of his time.

The continued fallout from the closure of Nigel Farage's bank account is covered by a number of papers. The Sunday Telegraph reports that the former UKIP leader has set up a website to find others who've had their accounts shut, as part of what he says is a "national scandal".

The Sunday Times has been speaking to the self-styled "bad boys of Brexit" - Arron Banks, Andrew Wigmore and Richard Tice - who all say they've had their bank accounts closed in recent years. Grant Shapps also told the Sun on Sunday that his family had been, as he put it, "de-banked".

The Home Office has "secretly" backed the used of facial recognition cameras to help prevent shoplifting, according to the Observer. The paper says officials will now lobby the privacy regulator to allow the roll-out of the devices, which critics claim discriminate based on skin colour and breach basic human rights. A spokesperson for the Home Office said facial recognition technology can protect shops and their staff.

The Sunday Times says Home Secretary Suella Braverman is gathering an "international alliance" to take on Facebook over its plans to make end-to-end encryption standard on its messaging apps.

She claims the proposals could make it easier for criminals to communicate. Facebook's parent company, Meta, says the technology is already used widely - and it has tools to prevent its exploitation.

There could be "holiday chaos" next year - according to the Mail on Sunday - because of what it calls "Big Brother" visas implemented by the EU. It says British travellers could be fingerprinted and photographed under the plans. In its editorial, the paper asks whether Brussels is "punishing" the UK for having the "temerity" to pursue Brexit.

The back pages are dominated by the retirement of Stuart Broad. The Sunday Express urges England to "Do it for Stu" in the 5th Ashes Test - while the Sunday Telegraph says the bowler has been one of English cricket's "great characters".