The Papers: BBC chair quits and 'new King for our times'

The resignation of BBC president Richard Sharp makes the beforehand leafage of respective newspapers, including the Financial Times, aft helium broke rules implicit dealings with then-prime curate Boris Johnson up of his appointment. In its play spread, the insubstantial focuses connected increasing calls for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to guarantee the BBC appointments process is "beyond reproach" and to halt choosing candidates based connected their governmental allegiances.

The Guardian besides focuses connected the unit facing Mr Sunak, successful the aftermath of BBC president Richard Sharp's resignation. Mr Sharp's determination to discontinue followed an probe that concluded helium failed to rise 2 imaginable perceived conflicts of involvement portion applying for the job. The Conservative Party is nether renewed scrutiny, the insubstantial says, arsenic critics accidental the Tories "had undermined the broadcaster by flooding it with cronies".

The Daily Express besides reports connected the absorption to Mr Sharp's resignation, and carries disapproval of Gary Lineker for tweeting astir the issue. Following quality of the chairman's resignation, the Match of the Day big said the assignment of the BBC president should not beryllium selected by an incumbent government. Gary Lineker's views were echoed by Labour MPs, and it comes aft the shot prima was caught successful the mediate of an impartiality enactment with the broadcaster. The Express says according to Tory MPs, the "BBC indispensable enactment to soundlessness Lineker".

The Daily Star pictures Richard Sharp, and reports connected the "shaming of the BBC". But its apical communicative is connected a survey that recovered much than fractional of women accidental they are amended astatine cooking barbecues than men.

The one paper leads connected a study alleging that Russian President Vladimir Putin's "top mercenaries are warring successful Sudan". It says the Wagner mercenary group, which has been progressive successful dense warring successful Ukraine, is besides operating successful Sudan. The study adds that the UK Ministry of Defence is tracking their activities. It comes arsenic thousands of radical are fleeing Sudan owed to aggravated warring betwixt the service and the paramilitary group, Rapid Support Forces. Wagner denies immoderate engagement successful the existent struggle successful the country.

"A caller king for our times" is the Daily Mirror's pb 1 week up of King Charles III's coronation. According to a survey carried retired by the paper, 80% of Brits hold with the monarch's bid to "trim down the monarchy". It reports that the King is said to beryllium successful favour of cutting backmost connected royal expenses, and is alert radical are struggling financially.

The Daily Mail reports that M&S brag Stuart Machin and Marie Leblanc, caput of Victoria Beckham's manner brand, person called for the tourer taxation to beryllium axed. The insubstantial says the brace are among "more than 130 hospitality, retail and tourism chiefs to person written to [Chancellor] Jeremy Hunt informing that stripping tourists of tax-free buying was an 'extraordinary ain goal'".

Meanwhile the Times leads connected a study that upcoming nationwide onslaught enactment by NHS nurses volition "put the information of sick children astatine risk", according to 1 of England's apical hospitals, Great Ormond Street Hospital. It comes arsenic members of the Royal College of Nursing are acceptable to locomotion retired betwixt 20:00 BST connected Sunday until 23:59 connected Monday.

In its lead, the Daily Telegraph reports that NHS productivity is being driven "ever little arsenic a effect of unit shortages and a deficiency of operating theatre space", with surgeons carrying retired scheduled operations lone 1 time a fortnight. In an interrogation with the paper, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England said the menace to diligent information from concern enactment was "extremely concerning" but the insubstantial reports that Prof Neil Mortensen "was adjacent much disquieted astir the harm being inflicted by wide workforce shortages, resulting successful a deficiency of capableness to wide backlogs".

The Sun reports that concealed atomic submarine plans were recovered "in a toilet cubicle astatine a Wetherspoons pub" successful Cumbria. It quotes a root arsenic saying it was "lucky a Russian spy didn't find them". A Navy spokesperson told the Sun the papers were "generic grooming documents" but it volition analyse the circumstances surrounding their discovery.