The Financial Times warns that Mr Sunak “faces mounting protests” over the HS2 row. It also reports that, when asked, aides to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt “did not deny that he had already approved a radical scaling back” of the rail project. But the main story is former US president Donald Trump’s appearance in a Manhattan court – at the start of a civil fraud trail against him and his eldest sons. An image of Mr Trump inside the courtroom, alongside his legal team, sits atop the page.
Sources suggest the UK has moved past its technical recession with first-quarter growth surpassing that of the US and Eurozone, a positive development for Rishi Sunak.