Newspaper headlines: Leave.EU's 'Russian links' in spotlight

By BBC News Staff

Image caption The Sunday Times has an exclusive story which claims to reveal an extensive web of links between the Leave.EU campaigner Aaron Banks and Russian officials during and after the EU referendum campaign in 2016.

Image caption Leading on the same story, the Mail claims Mr Banks, a former UKIP donor who bankrolled the unofficial Leave.EU campaign, had three previously undisclosed meetings with Russian ambassador Alexander Yakovenko. Mr Banks has called the investigation into any connection between himself and Russia "a witch-hunt".

Image caption Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Tory MPs Amber Rudd and Iain Duncan Smith have called on "every Conservative" to back the prime minister ahead of a series of votes in the Commons on the EU withdrawal bill. The rare show of unity between a Ms Rudd, who campaigned for Remain, and arch Eurosceptic Mr Duncan Smith, shows increasing nervousness within the party, the paper says.

Image caption "May savages Lords over Brexit", says the headline in The Sunday Express, which also leads on the forthcoming Commons vote on the EU withdrawal bill. It reports a speech by Theresa May at the G7 in which she said some amendments passed by the Lords "went far beyond" their revising role.