Papers suggest Brown faces crisis

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With the expected resignations of three ministers, including Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, most newspapers suggest the government is in crisis.

The headlines say it's "Disarray in Downing Street" in the Independent, "Melt-Brown" in the Mirror, and "Rats Desert Sinking Ship" in the Mail.

The Times says Gordon Brown <a class="bodl" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6419211.ece ID=">is struggling to maintain his authority</a> ahead of his "fightback reshuffle."

The paper says many see it as his last chance to rescue his position.

An editorial in the Guardian <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/02/editorial-gordon-brown-labour">criticises the Prime Minister's performance</a> and calls for the Labour Party to "cut him loose".

It says: "The truth is that there is no vision from Brown, no plan, no argument for the future and no support."

The Sun pictures the home secretary and the chancellor as characters from the TV series Thunderbirds.

"Blunderbird Is Go!" reads the headline under Ms Smith. <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2462209/Jacqui-Smith-resignation-undermines-PM.html">A speech bubble from Alistair Darling adds: "And it's not looking F.A.B. for me".</a>

On Day 27 of the Telegraph's "Expenses Files", the paper turns its attention to MPs who left Parliament at the last general election in 2005.

The paper says they made thousands of pounds from the system in the months just before or after their departure.

Bank deal

Away from Westminster, many of the papers picture the couple who jumped to their death at Beachy Head after their's son death from meningitis.

The Daily Star says they were "too sad to live on."

The Times reports that great bustard chicks <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6418300.ece">have hatched in Britain for the first time in almost two centuries.</a>

The largest European and heaviest flying bird was hunted to extinction in the UK in 1832.

The Financial Times tells how Spanish bank, BBVA, <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c0f29e8a-4fa8-11de-a692-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1">is asking its employees if they want to spend more time with their families</a> in a bid to cut costs.

It says employees can agree not to work for up to five years - in exchange for nearly a third of their salary.