Papers predict tough day for MPs

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The morning papers predict a day of reckoning ahead for MPs following the scandal over their expenses.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/">Daily Telegraph says</a> Sir Thomas Legg, who conducted an audit into them, will make it clear that he believes the entire system was corrupt.

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mps-and-expenses-the-final-damning-verdict-1888969.html">The Independent says Sir Thomas will order 350 members to repay up to £1m</a> .

But the <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/156119">Daily Express suggests that the row will continue to rumble on,</a> because some MPs could go to the courts to challenge demands to pay back money.

Lights out

The energy regulator's assessment of the risk of a national power failure is summed up by a bleak headline in <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/">the Sun:</a> "Blackout Britain".

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/03/ofgem-uk-energy-supplies">Guardian argues Ofgem's search for a solution</a> to Britain's energy needs should have been launched years ago.

It says this should have begun when North Sea supplies first started to run out and global warming was noticed.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-1248341/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Politicians-leave-shivering-dark.html">Daily Mail accuses politicians from both main parties</a> of standing by for 20 years, watching the crisis develop.

Doctor, doctor

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article7014130.ece">Times looks at the publication of a report </a> into out-of-hours GP services in England and Wales, and concludes that big changes should be made.

It believes the situation is dire and GPs' contracts must be renegotiated.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-1248345/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Its-time-doctors-honoured-responsibility-treating-patients.html">Daily Mail welcomes politicians' admission</a> that the GP contracts have left huge areas with inadequate cover.

But it is unhappy that neither Labour or the Conservatives are insisting that doctors take back responsibility for treating their own patients.

Tears of a clown

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/2837714/Peter-Andre-breaks-down-on-TV.html">Sun gives plenty of column inches</a> to an interview on Sky News with sometime pop singer Peter Andre.

An "emotional" Mr Andre was reduced to tears during the encounter, which followed news that his ex-wife, Katie "Jordan" Price, had remarried.

The <a class="inlineText" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/opinion/voiceofthemirror/">Daily Mirror,</a> however, says the best TV interviewers coax guests to open up without upsetting them.

It says presenter Kay Burley's approach was "the broadcasting equivalent of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut".