Sunday Times

The Sunday Times reports on fury and fear in Mariupol after Putin violates a ceasefire.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has drawn up a new hit list of Russian oligarchs to be sanctioned, the paper reports, amid warnings the conflict in Ukraine could last up to a decade.

The Sunday Times leads with an investigation into the wealthy donors who have the ear of the prime minister.

On its front page, The Sunday Times focuses on remarks by British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, who has said there is a “whiff of Munich in the air” as the West engages in last-minute diplomatic efforts to stop Russian aggression.

The Sunday Times says that private schools “gamed” COVID to boost grades.

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have pledged to push ahead with a £12bn increase in national insurance despite MPs demands they scrap the tax rise to ease the cost-of-living crisis, according to The Sunday Times.

A Muslim Conservative MP has accused a party whip of telling her she was fired from her ministerial job because of her religion, according to The Sunday Times. Nusrat Ghani, 49, claimed she was sacked as transport minister in a 2020 mini-reshuffle because of her faith.

Free lateral flow tests face the axe under a strategy of living with COVID-19 leads The Sunday Times. 

Ministers want to relax immigration rules to make it easier for thousands of Indians to live and work in the UK as part of trade talks that are due to begin within weeks, The Times reports.