The Mail splashes on claims that the home secretary has launched a paternity case to claim parental rights over his former lover's children.

David Blunkett is demanding DNA tests on the two-year-old son and unborn child of Spectator magazine publisher Kimberley Fortier, according to the reports.

Meanwhile Tony and Cherie Blair have been accused of a conflict of interest over renting the two flats they own in Bristol through a blind trust to a French firm in receipt of government contracts.