Papers question fall-out for PM

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With the stream of revelations on MPs' expenses showing little sign of slowing down, a number of the papers assess the impact of the crisis on Gordon Brown.

The Times highlights Health Secretary Alan Johnson's comment that it will <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6355854.ece">raise pressure on the prime minister.</a>

There is more advice for Mr Brown in the Guardian, this time from Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband.

He has told the paper the widespread outrage over the expenses scandal has created a <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/may/24/ed-miliband-political-reform-mps-expenses">"moment for big reform".</a>

Call of the right

The Independent says it has fresh evidence voters are turning to the far-right in the wake of the expenses row.

The paper says visitors <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bnp-attracts-more-clicks-than-all-other-major-parties-1690406.html">spend more than double the time on the BNP's website</a> than on any of the mainstream websites.

But the paper says the <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-we-must-stop-exaggerating-the-threat-of-the-bnp-1690424.html">Archbishops of Canterbury and York</a> are playing into the BNP's hands by telling voters not to vote for them.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5379149/Stop-talking-up-the-comical-BNP.html">Daily Telegraph agrees.</a> We must not let MPs use the threat of the far-right as a distraction, the paper says.

Cameron's footwork

Tory leader David Cameron's decision to reopen the Conservative candidate list for the general election gets a good reaction in many of the papers.

There is a <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2447030/Anyone-invited-to-be-a-Tory-MP.html">warm welcome</a> from the Sun which says it wants more "real" people in Westminster.

The Financial Times says Cameron has stolen a march on the prime minister, <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3f6b23d0-4898-11de-8870-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1">"stepping nimbly on to Brown's toes".</a>

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/cartoon/">cartoon</a> in the Times shows David Cameron surfing on the Thames outside parliament - Mr Brown under the waves.

Toon Army blues

In football, the big news is the relegation of Newcastle United from the Premier League after 16 years. Each paper tries its own pun on the demise.

The Daily Star's back page shows a sombre Newcastle manager, Alan Shearer, with the headline <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/82008/Shear-drop/">"Shear Drop".</a>

The Daily Mirror runs with "Toon and out" on its front page and <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/">"Sob on the Tyne"</a> on the back.

The Daily Mail, however, pictures <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1187174/Shearer-ponders-future-Toon-boss-insists-Newcastle-change-bottom.html">Alan Shearer pinching his brow </a> with the simple: "Down and out".