Newspaper headlines: 'Cops probe Boris again' and 'secret Rolf funeral'

A fig of Wednesday's papers pb with the quality that erstwhile premier curate Boris Johnson - who past twelvemonth was fined for parties held successful Downing Street during the coronavirus lockdown - has been referred to the constabulary by the Cabinet Office implicit claims helium besides hosted events astatine Chequers, the premier ministerial residence successful Buckinghamshire. The one says Mr Johnson, who is inactive an MP, is "fighting for his future" but that helium has blamed immoderate quality of wrongdoing connected "abbreviated entries" successful his authoritative diary.

The alleged visits to Chequers were recovered successful Mr Johnson's diary by government-funded lawyers who were moving connected his defence for the nationalist enquiry into the pandemic, according to the Guardian. The insubstantial says the lawyers raised the entries with the Cabinet Office, which was past obliged nether the civilian work codification to notation the substance to the police.

The Daily Mirror calls the alleged visits "another lockdown scandal" and quotes a campaigner connected behalf of families near bereaved by the pandemic saying Mr Johnson's "legacy is 1 of lying".

The Daily Telegraph says small is known for definite astir the reported events successful questions but that they took spot betwixt June 2020 and May 2021. One root tells the insubstantial determination were a "handful" of events portion different claims determination were "more than 10". The insubstantial says it has been told 1 alleged lawsuit was a luncheon astatine Number 10 for Mr Johnson and his mother, who died successful September 2021, and that different was a gathering betwixt Mr Johnson and tv presenter Kate Garraway, whose hubby was near successful a life-threatening information aft catching Covid aboriginal successful the pandemic.

The constabulary referral is described arsenic a "complete stitch up" connected the beforehand of the Daily Express. The insubstantial says allies of Mr Johnson person claimed determination is simply a "vendetta" being waged against him, with 1 root telling it that "these were enactment meetings, not household oregon friends oregon alleged parties".

The Daily Mail says Mr Johnson is "livid" that the authorities gave extracts from his premier ministerial diaries to the constabulary without telling him. Sources adjacent to Mr Johnson person told the insubstantial helium has "already had ineligible proposal that nary of the events broke Covid rules" and that helium is "seriously considering" taking ineligible enactment against the Cabinet Office for defamation.

The International Monetary Fund has congratulated the authorities for reining successful ostentation but warned that present is not the clip to chopped taxes, according to the Times. The insubstantial says figures to beryllium published connected Wednesday are expected to amusement that ostentation has fallen beneath 10% for the archetypal clip since past August, but quotes the IMF's managing director, Kristalina Georgieva, saying that taxation cuts would beryllium "neither affordable nor desirable" portion it remains high.

The Financial Times reports that the politician of the Bank of England has conceded determination are "very large lessons to learn" aft the cardinal slope failed to forecast the persistently precocious ostentation of the past 18 months. Speaking earlier the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee connected Tuesday, Andrew Bailey said the Bank had taken a "conscious decision" to trim the relation of its forecasting exemplary erstwhile mounting involvement rates due to the fact that the exemplary was not delivering sufficiently close results.

Disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris, who was jailed successful 2014 for a bid of indecent assaults connected girls dating backmost to the precocious 1960s, was cremated astatine a concealed ceremonial pursuing his decease from crab earlier this month, the Sun reports.

The Metro quotes a connection from Harris's household that says helium "died peacefully surrounded by household and friends and has present been laid to rest".

And the Daily Star's beforehand leafage reports that comedian Bob Mortimer has said helium wants to "die valiantly warring a bear", though adds successful a footnote that "some grade of journalistic licence whitethorn person been applied" to the story.