Labour election prospects weighed

The Sunday papers focus on Labour's election prospects as the party gathers in Bournemouth for Gordon Brown's first conference as leader.

Foreign Secretary David Miliband tells the Observer Labour are planning for another decade in power.

In an interview with the Sunday Times, Mr Brown says he will be fighting the next election on the issue of health.

Writing in the News of the World, he adds that he is cleaning up hospital wards because voters have told him to.

Early election call

The timing of the next election also preoccupies the Sundays.

The Sunday Mirror, urges the prime minister to go for an autumn election, saying even Tory voters now consider Gordon Brown to be the best leader.

The Sunday Express says that, with difficult times ahead over the economy, the prime minister should not be asking whether to call an early election - but when.

Meanwhile, the People believes Labour's current lead in the polls would give Mr Brown a 100-seat Commons majority.

Madeleine 'sighting'

The disappearance of Madeleine McCann remains on many of the front pages, with the Sunday Mirror asking whether she is in Morocco.

It says two different people saw her in Marrakech, but police did nothing.

The Sunday Express also leads with what it calls the "credible" sighting which it says was taken seriously by Morocco's secret police.

The Sunday Telegraph says a Portuguese policeman has claimed the McCanns were smeared to push them into confessing.

Second home claims

The Mail on Sunday turns its attention to two ministers who it accuses of cashing in on a tax loophole.

It claims schools secretary Ed Balls and his wife, housing minister Yvette Cooper, list their London house as their second home to claim more cash.

The paper says it has allowed them to subsidise the mortgage of the Stoke Newington house - using expenses.

But a spokesman for the couple said their main home was in Yorkshire, so they were acting within Commons rules.