Today's front pages: Brussels gossip or a humiliating defeat?
The Week takes a look at the stories grabbing the headlines in Tuesday's national newspapers
Insider accounts of an apparently frosty dinner between Theresa May and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker dominate the morning's front pages. The Guardian says the reports paint a picture of a "botched and humiliating" encounter…
while the Daily Express says the Prime Minister is furious about the leaked details, which she has dismissed as "Brussels gossip".
Amid the reports of deteriorating relations between Downing Street and Brussels, the Daily Telegraph claims the EU is set to block May's proposal to agree a deal on expat rights.
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There is more Brussels plotting in the Financial Times, which says the bloc is planning to present UK companies engaged in the lucrative euro-clearing trade with an ultimatum: submit to EU regulation or relocate to the EU.
Widespread mis-selling of loans means Britain's car finance industry could be heading for its own version of the US sub-prime mortgage crisis, warns The Times. Many buyers reportedly end up unable to meet the terms of finance deals they don't understand, leaving finance firms struggling to stay afloat.
The i newspaper warns that HMRC's online tax calculator, which many taxpayers rely on to work out what they owe, is flawed and could leave users paying over the odds.
An investigation into IVF clinics leads on the Daily Mail, which claims women on low incomes are being offered fertility treatment or cash in exchange for donating their eggs.
The Daily Mirror splashes with reports that all-inclusive resorts in Spain are considering a ban on UK holidaymakers following a flood of bogus food poisoning claims. Hoteliers claim British scammers have cost them £42m in compensation pay-outs in the last 18 months.
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