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Image caption,Speculation about what will be in Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement this week fills up several pages in the Sunday newspapers. The Sunday Times headlines on plans for a "surprise" income tax cut (the same one reported in some other papers in recent days), with its lead story explaining that improved public finances have prompted Mr Hunt to bring his initial tax-cutting timetable forward by six months. A cartoon by Newman injects some humour, depicting a widow at her husband's graveside lamenting that "it was all the excitement over inheritance tax cuts that killed him".
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Image caption,But the Observer reports that Jeremy Hunt "faces a backlash" from "red wall" Tory MPs representing poorer former Labour strongholds if he delivers "a budget for the rich" with a cut in inheritance tax prioritised ahead of other measures.
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Image caption,And the Sunday Mirror counts down to the Autumn Statement with an attack on how the government has spent public funds since the last election. The paper claims that much of the "£100bn of Tory waste" - equal to "£1,500 blown for every person in the UK" - was spent during Rishi Sunak's time as chancellor under Boris Johnson.
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Image caption,A trio of lead stories focusing on the migrant issue is kicked off by the Sunday Express, which says six suspected terrorists with a plan to target the British government or public services have entered the UK on a small boat that crossed the English Channel.
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Image caption,The Mail on Sunday devotes the whole of its front page to telling the story of Somalian Yaqub Ahmed who made headlines five years ago when the UK tried to deport him after he was convicted and jailed for his part in a gang rape, but passengers on the same plane - unaware of his crime - chanted for the man in handcuffs to be taken off the flight. The Mail says he has since "dragged his deportation fight through at least 24 tribunal or court hearings" - and the paper offers its readers a further "six-page dossier" on "asylum farce that beggars belief".
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Image caption,And the Sunday Telegraph reports that Rishi Sunak will move Home Office officials out to work in Rwanda - delivering training and helping with casework - so that the government can press ahead with its plan to send some asylum seekers there. The paper also carries a picture of Nigel Farage liberally caked in mud as the former Ukip leader carries out his first task on the 23rd series of ITV reality show I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here.
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Image caption,The Sun on Sunday carries the same picture alongside its splash story, which sets up an expected confrontation with the woman tipped to be Nigel Farage's nemesis in the TV jungle. To get the "mud-slinging" under way, the paper trawls through Guardian critic Grace Dent's social media and uncovers some "sick jokes" she made when Mr Farage was injured in a plane crash in 2010.
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Image caption,The Sunday People front page prefers to picture the arrival of Jamie-Lynn Spears - destined to have her name prefixed as "Britney's sister" for at least some time yet. But it leads on a warning about the pesticides being used by hotels to kill bed bugs.
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Image caption,The Daily Star Sunday also pictures Nigel Farage "in the brown stuff" but leads with the cheery story that a berry has been found that boosts weight loss so much it could spell "the end of the beer belly".
What might be in Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement this week features in several of Sunday's papers.
The Sunday Times reports that Mr Hunt is mulling over last-minute cuts to income tax or national insurance to help millions of low and middle earners.
The paper says Mr Hunt hopes Wednesday's Autumn Statement will boost economic growth - and the Conservative Party's "electoral fortunes".
The Observer says he could face a revolt by Tory MPs in "red wall seats" if he presses ahead with a major reduction in inheritance tax - and delivers what it calls "a budget for the rich", rather than help for ordinary families.
The Sunday Telegraph says Rishi Sunak is planning to station Home Office officials in Rwanda - ahead of a new treaty with the country which is expected to be unveiled this week. Echoing the warnings of some Conservative MPs, the paper says the prime minister risks facing an "election catastrophe" if he fails to deliver on his small boats policy.
In an interview with the Mail on Sunday - her first since she was sacked as home secretary - Suella Braverman criticises Mr Sunak's handling of the Rwanda policy and his approach to antisemitic chants at protests in recent weeks; on the latter issue, she says he lacked moral leadership.
The Sunday Express reports that three illegal migrants with apparent links to terrorist groups in Iran are at large in the UK. It says their arrival brings to 25 the total number of terror suspects who have used small boats to enter Britain this year alone. "Terror cell sneaks in on small boats" is the headline.
According to the Sunday Mirror, pressure is mounting on new Foreign Secretary David Cameron to "come clean" about his financial links to China. "Tell us the lot, Cameron" is the paper's headline.
The Observer says Lord Cameron is likely to be challenged over his promotion of a Beijing-backed development in Sri Lanka, for which he is thought to have been paid. The paper quotes a source from the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, saying there are "very serious questions about how he was vetted for his new position."
Lord Cameron's office has not commented on the arrangements.
The Sunday Times says Tesco is testing a pilot scheme to calculate customers' bills without them having to unload their basket.
The paper says hundreds of cameras in the ceiling will follow customers from the moment they walk into a store. The paper quotes one shopper testing the innovation in west London as saying: "I want to be in and out, so it's great it can scan itself." The paper says another shopper didn't have as much luck; he turned up to the till with a packet of tortellini, but he was charged for two.
Several papers feature an image of the former Ukip leader Nigel Farage, covered in watery mud in ITV's I'm a Celebrity jungle.
"Bushtucker vile" declares the Sun headline, although it is talking about the content of tweets from camp mate Grace Dent which, it says, include some "sick jokes" she made when Mr Farage was injured in a plane crash in 2010.
The Sunday Telegraph says Mr Farage is hoping his appearance will win over a "legion of young fans". The paper says he's already faced his first challenge, but it remains to be seen whether he'll get out of the "sticky situation" unscathed.
