Miliband under attack in papers

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Foreign Secretary - and possible Labour leader of the future - David Miliband receives some less than flattering coverage in Sunday's papers.

The Observer says he has come under a "venomous" attack from the leader the union Unite, who believes he is "smug" and "arrogant".

The Mail on Sunday seems to agree. It accuses Mr Miliband of overusing the Queen's Flight private jet - "he thinks he is more important than he is", it says.

Meanwhile, David Cameron bluntly tells the Sunday Telegraph: "If my foreign secretary behaved like that, I'd sack him."

'No open borders'

Two papers lead with an apparent call from a cross-party group of MPs to cap the number of immigrants allowed to settle permanently in the UK.

The Sunday Times says that "until recently immigration was regarded as a no-go area for politicians".

But things are now changing, it writes. "The debate is too important to ignore or to be swept under the carpet."

The Sunday Express insists that current rates of immigration are "unsustainable". "We are happy for people to come to work here, but we cant have open borders," its editorial says.

Meat-free Mondays?

The Independent on Sunday leads with "trailblazing research" which tries to explain Britain's bulging waistline.

"Pollution can make children fat", a Spanish study has found. "Exposure to a range of common chemicals before birth sets up a baby to grow up stout."

Also on the subject of pollution, the head of the UN's panel on climate change tells the Observer that people should have one meat-free day a week in order to help tackle global warming.

It says methane emitted by cows is 23 times more harmful than carbon dioxide.

'Limp start'

England's 2-0 win over Andorra in the football World Cup qualifiers does not draw much praise.

The News of the World says "Hot Cole" - goal scorer Joe Cole - was "England's only spark" in a lacklustre display.

"Too often England were guilty of poor crossing", the Sunday Mirror feels. Even Cole could only "silence some of the boos from the travelling England fans".

The Sunday Telegraph labels it a "limp start" as "England laboured to break down the 186th-best team in the world".