The Papers: 'Heading for IMF bailout' and 'Border farce!'

"Reeves 'heading for IMF bailout'" reads the Sunday Telegraph, after the paper spoke to a leading economist ahead of Chancellor Rachel Reeves' autumn budget. Professor Jagjit Chadha, former head of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, warned that the economy was at risk of "collapse", and said the situation was "as perilous as the period leading up to the IMF loan of 1976". The paper features a photograph of a young girl in Poland celebrating Ukraine's independence day, which falls on Sunday, paired with the caption "a moment for peace".

"Border farce!" declares the Sunday Express, reporting that "top civil servants" in the Home Office "pocketed huge pay rises and bonuses" as asylum claims soared in the year to June. The paper alleges that some employees saw their salaries rise by as much as 24%, while others "raked in a £15,000 bonus".

The Sunday Times has also led on asylum seekers, and says that Sir Keir Starmer will overhaul the asylum appeal system "in an effort to deport failed asylum seekers faster and stop the hotel crisis derailing his immigration strategy". The paper writes that an independent commission will "rapidly" assess migrant appeals, and the new body will be given statutory powers to prioritise those cases where people are being housed in taxpayer-funded accommodation.

The Mail reports that Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has spent "£800,000 for her third home". The paper says that the recent property purchase has prompted the Tories to demand that she "come clean" about her current council tax arrangements.

The Sun has also led with the deputy prime minister, picturing her with the headline "3 pads Rayner", echoing the "two Jags" nickname given to an earlier Labour deputy prime minister, the late John Prescott. The paper says the property is a "luxury seaside apartment" near Brighton.

"Di dragged into Epstein scandal" says the Mirror, after the US justice department released transcripts and audio recordings of its July interview with Ghislaine Maxwell.

The Observer's headline reads "After Epping" alongside a full-page photograph that features people waving England flags at a demonstration.

A "new probe on black cab rapist" John Worboys is the main story for the Sunday People, as police investigate a case in Blackpool in the 1990s. The 62-year-old was jailed in 2009 for assaults on 12 women in London, but the paper says "he could walk free in December".