Newspaper headlines: 'PM overrules Miliband' and 'We was robbed!'
BBC News·2026-06-14·via BBC News
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer plans to "water down" the UK's electric vehicles sales targets, the Sunday Times reports, describing it as a "blow" to Energy Secretary Ed Miliband's net-zero agenda. The paper reports that the mandate requiring 80% of new car sales by 2030 to be all-electric models will be reduced to 50%.
More than 100,000 failed asylum seekers are still living in the UK because they have not yet been deported, the Sunday Express reports. The papers adds that at least a quarter of these - more than 26,000 people - have been in the country for at least a decade despite losing their cases.
Writing in the Independent, former Conservative MP Lord Michael Heseltine says that the "scandalously false prospectus" promised by leading proponents of Brexit has "turned to dust and ashes". The front page features photos of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Nigel Farage, all of whom, Lord Michael continues, should "hang their heads in shame".
David Hockney, "our English Picasso", is mourned on the front page of the Observer. The lauded British artist died on Thursday, aged 88.
"We was robbed!" is the headline for the Daily Star, which reports the England World Cup Squad had their boots and training gear stolen in a "huge heist".
Sunday People leads with the same headline, but also features a photo of the Princess of Wales at Trooping the Colour.
Two people have been arrested in connection with the theft of the England kit, the Sun on Sunday reports.
The new Defence Secretary, Dan Jarvis, tells the Sunday Telegraph that the government must "meet the moment" on defence spending. Jarvis said he was determined to get the military "precisely what they need", after his predecessor John Healey resigned following a spending row.
In the Sunday Mirror, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, a Labour leadership hopeful, writes that successive governments have turned "a deaf ear to the things that matter most to us". Speaking about his effort to return to Westminster in the forthcoming Makerfield by-election, he says: "If I'm given the opportunity, I'll make sure they hear us loud and clear." A full list of the parties who have put forward candidates for the Makerfield by-election can be found on the BBC website.
The Daily Mail reports that activists campaigning for Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain party campaigned at a summit of white supremacists. A Restore Britain spokesperson described the revelations as "totally irrelevant" and a "hit piece".
