Newspaper headlines: Sunak criticises Farage and Starmer ‘would work with Le Pen’

With less than a week to go until polling day, the general election remains a hot topic on the front of most of Friday’s newspapers. Friday’s edition of the i newspaper splashes with a story on how quickly Labour would impose VAT on private school fees as part of shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves’s plans, should the party form the next government. Sticking with the election theme, the paper has an exclusive that Keir Starmer would be “pragmatic” about working with the leader of France’s National Rally, Marine Le Pen, to prevent Channel crossings.