The Sunday Times and the Sunday Telegraph lead with their reports that the BBC is to apologise for airing an edited clip of a speech by US President Donald Trump. They say the BBC’s chairman, Samir Shah, will write to the culture, media and sport committee tomorrow to express regret for the way the speech was “doctored” for an episode of Panorama a week before last year’s US presidential election. The Sunday Times quotes unnamed sources at the BBC as saying Mr Shah will try to “stem criticism” by conceding the documentary “unintentionally” misled viewers.
The front page story in the the Mail on Sunday highlights comments made on the Today programme yesterday by Nick Robinson – who acknowledged there was “a genuine concern about editorial standards and mistakes” at the BBC – but also “a political campaign by people who want to destroy the organisation”. Both things, he said, were happening at the same time. The Mail reports that his comments were condemned as “ridiculous” and “arrogant” by the former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. He told the paper there was a “difference between trying to destroy the BBC and trying to hold it to account”.
“Victory for our heroes”, declares the front page headline in the Sunday Express, as it reports that World War Two veterans have secured guaranteed funding for all future commemorative trips abroad. The promise from the Ministry of Defence is said to be “cast iron”. Dorothea Barron, who’s 101, and served in the Women’s Royal Naval Service, is quoted as saying trips to the Netherlands and Normandy allow her to honour “the ones who never came home” and say “you are not forgotten”.
The Sun on Sunday uses its editorial to underline the importance of Remembrance Sunday. The paper says the country is “eternally” in the “debt” of servicemen and women who fought for our values in the past – and those who serve today. But there’s a stark warning about remembrance from the historian, Sir Anthony Seldon, in the Observer. He says we have “forgotten the lessons of the Second World War” – and from “east to west, bullies dominate”.
“How can the PM stand by Lammy after jails farce”, asks the shadow justice secretary, Robert Jenrick, in the Sunday Express. He claims David Lammy has “lost control” of the prisons system – with accidental releases having “shot up”. The Sunday Times says while Mr Lammy has had a “chastening week” including a “farcical” performance at Prime Minister’s Questions – he still retains the support of Sir Keir Starmer.
The Observer’s political editor Rachel Sylvester has commented on how Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s “two up, two down” budget could affect young people in the UK, leading with the headline “Generation game”.
A number of papers have photos of champagne being delivered to Royal Lodge in Windsor, the home of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. “What on earth is there to celebrate”, asks the Mail on Sunday. The Star suggests he may be “drowning his sorrows”. The Sun believes there’s concern that Andrew might end up alone at Christmas – with the King understood to want someone to spend the festive season with him.
Pictures of the television presenter, Davina McCall, appear on many of the front pages after she revealed she underwent surgery for breast cancer nearly three weeks ago. The Sunday Mirror reports that she discovered the lump during filming for an ITV show after being encouraged to check her breasts by a sign in the toilets at the studio used by another host, Lorraine Kelly. The Daily Star’s editorial praises Davina McCall for “bravely telling the world of her ordeal because she wants to help others”.
