It’s just three days until Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers her Spring Statement so it is no surprise that she is the focus on some of Sunday’s front pages. “Reeves takes axe to Civil Service” leads the front page of the Sunday Telegraph, with the paper reporting that “thousands of Whitehall jobs” are expected to be slashed to help the chancellor stay on target with her spending plans. Union bosses are not impressed and tell the paper the move to cut £2bn will “raise the prospect of tens of thousands of redundancies”. Reeves’s moment in the Commons isn’t the only highly anticipated event on the paper’s agenda this week, as it spotlights a serene portrait of Ukraine’s embattled president, highlighting how he is staring down fresh talks in Saudi Arabia on Monday with teams from Kyiv and Moscow conversing separately.
Reeves is also top of mind – and page – on the Sunday Times, where the paper is similarly teeing up her big moment…
