Newspaper headlines: Warning over 'budget for the rich' and Farage in the mud

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What might be in Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement this week features in several of Sunday's papers.

The Sunday Times reports that Mr Hunt is mulling over last-minute cuts, external to income tax or national insurance to help millions of low and middle earners.

The paper says Mr Hunt hopes Wednesday's Autumn Statement will boost economic growth - and the Conservative Party's "electoral fortunes".

The Observer says he could face a revolt by Tory MP, externals in "red wall seats" if he presses ahead with a major reduction in inheritance tax - and delivers what it calls "a budget for the rich", rather than help for ordinary families.

The Sunday Telegraph says Rishi Sunak is planning to station Home Office officials in Rwanda, external - ahead of a new treaty with the country which is expected to be unveiled this week. Echoing the warnings of some Conservative MPs, the paper says the prime minister risks facing an "election catastrophe" if he fails to deliver on his small boats policy.

In an interview with the Mail on Sunday - her first since she was sacked as home secretary - Suella Braverman criticises Mr Sunak's handling of the Rwanda policy and his approach to antisemitic chants at protests in recent weeks; on the latter issue, she says he lacked moral leadership.

The Sunday Express reports, external that three illegal migrants with apparent links to terrorist groups in Iran are at large in the UK. It says their arrival brings to 25 the total number of terror suspects who have used small boats to enter Britain this year alone. "Terror cell sneaks in on small boats" is the headline.

According to the Sunday Mirror,, external pressure is mounting on new Foreign Secretary David Cameron to "come clean" about his financial links to China. "Tell us the lot, Cameron" is the paper's headline.

The Observer says Lord Cameron is likely to be challenged over his promotion of a Beijing-backed development in Sri Lanka, for which he is thought to have been paid. The paper quotes a source from the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, saying there are "very serious questions about how he was vetted for his new position."

Lord Cameron's office has not commented on the arrangements.

The Sunday Times says Tesco is testing a pilot scheme to calculate customers' bills without them having to unload their basket.

The paper says hundreds of cameras in the ceiling will follow customers from the moment they walk into a store. The paper quotes one shopper testing the innovation in west London as saying: "I want to be in and out, so it's great it can scan itself." The paper says another shopper didn't have as much luck; he turned up to the till with a packet of tortellini, but he was charged for two.

Several papers feature an image of the former Ukip leader Nigel Farage, covered in watery mud in ITV's I'm a Celebrity jungle.

"Bushtucker vile" declares the Sun headline,, external although it is talking about the content of tweets from camp mate Grace Dent which, it says, include some "sick jokes" she made when Mr Farage was injured in a plane crash in 2010.

The Sunday Telegraph, external says Mr Farage is hoping his appearance will win over a "legion of young fans". The paper says he's already faced his first challenge, but it remains to be seen whether he'll get out of the "sticky situation" unscathed.

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