Newspaper headlines: PM skips 'sleaze showdown' and MP's tax haven job

The front pages feature the continuing debate over MPs' outside jobs, lobbying and standards.

Many of the papers cover the fallout of the government's failed attempt to overturn the suspension of an MP who was found to have breached lobbying rules. The Times' headline describes "anger as PM skips sleaze showdown" - referring to him missing a Commons debate - while the paper says Tory MPs are calling on him to apologise."I'm a prime minister...

"Top MP earns fortune working in tax haven" is the Daily Mail's headline, raising a new concern about MPs' outside interests. The paper reports that Geoffrey Cox, the former attorney general, earned hundreds of thousands of pounds in the British Virgin Islands while voting remotely in Parliament under lockdown rules.The Daily Telegraph's lead story reports that 11,600 people caught Covid in hospital after being admitted for other illnesses - and then went on to die from it.

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