Sunday newspaper round-up: Tory leadership race, Iran tensions, Patisserie Valerie, British Steel, Nationwide

The United States launched cyber attacks against Iranian missile control systems and a spy network after Tehran downed an American surveillance drone, according to US media reports. US president Donald Trump secretly authorised US Cyber Command to carry out a retaliatory attack on Iran, The Washington Post reported Saturday, shortly after the US president pledged to hit the Islamic republic with major new sanctions. - Sunday Telegraph

Boris Johnson is under pressure from a Conservative cabinet minister to explain why police were called to his home after a row with his partner as the issue threatens to derail his campaign to become prime minister. Liam Fox, the international trade secretary, said the frontrunner to succeed Theresa May should speak out about the late-night altercation that was witnessed by several neighbours and first disclosed by the Guardian on Friday. - Observer

Nigel Farage has held a secret summit with Boris Johnson supporters at a £1,500-a-year private members’ club to discuss the forging of an electoral pact to keep Jeremy Corbyn out of Downing Street. The Brexit Party leader, whose surge in the polls since Theresa May delayed the UK’s departure from the EU has sent shockwaves through the Tories, met pro-Boris MP Priti Patel at the exclusive 5 Hertford Street club in Mayfair earlier this month. - Mail on Sunday

Five people have been arrested over the Patisserie Valerie affair as the scandal over the chain’s collapse deepens. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) confirmed it had arrested and questioned five people last Tuesday in a joint operation with police in Hertfordshire and Leicestershire and Scotland Yard. - The Sunday Times

Hopes of embattled British Steel being sold in its entirety look to be dwindling with buyers increasingly seeking to carve off pieces of the insolvent business. French engineering group Systra is reported to be interested in snapping up TSP Projects, a design consultancy owned by British Steel, according to Sky News. TSP is a wholly owned consultancy with expertise in the transport sector. - Sunday Telegraph

Airbus is shutting down a subsidiary that has been at the centre of a long-running bribery investigation. The UK-based subsidiary of the European aerospace group, GPT Special Project Management, has been under investigation for seven years over allegations it paid multi million pound bribes to secure a military contract with the Saudi Arabian government. - Observer

Customers of Nationwide Building Society have expressed outrage at the £2.37m annual pay package earned by boss Joe Garner, an increase of 2.3 per cent on the year before. Details of Garner's pay - inflated by a £1m performance award and £187,000 of expenses - were reported in the Mail on Sunday last week, prompting an angry reaction from readers. - Mail on Sunday

Two bosses at Hargreaves Lansdown who promoted the fallen fund manager Neil Woodford have volunteered to defer their bonuses in the wake of the investment scandal. The failure to give up their bonuses entirely, however, has sparked anger. More than 290,000 clients of the funds supermarket have had £1.6bn trapped in the Woodford Equity Income Fund since withdrawals by investors were suspended on June 3. - The Sunday Times

The former chief executive of Barclays has been cleared of wrongdoing after a judge ruled there was "insufficient evidence" to support the charge of conspiracy to commit fraud. The decision was made after a jury was initially discharged in April, although the case remains subject to strict reporting restrictions. - Sunday Telegraph

The chief executive of Aston Martin faces the prospect of a vote against his pay package as he faces shareholders for the luxury carmaker’s first annual meeting as a listed company. Andy Palmer has led the company since 2014, but investor scrutiny of his £1.2m salary - before a potential bonus five times larger – has increased as shares have slumped from the price at the carmaker’s much-anticipated stock market flotation. - Observer

German car giant BMW has declared it remains 'committed' to the UK in a boost for our embattled automotive industry. In accounts filed this month for BMW UK, directors added: 'We are currently going to great lengths to prepare our production network for the impact of Brexit.' - Mail on Sunday

Railway bosses and their staff are being ordered to fly around Britain for some journeys - because it is cheaper than taking the train. Network Rail says it has an expenses policy stipulating that staff should take the plane not the train when it saves money. The policy has emerged after rail fares rose 3.1% this year, despite the worst punctuality figures for more than a decade. - The Sunday Times

Sales representatives have been kicked off more hospital maternity wards as campaigners renew calls for the government to step in over “exploitative” practices. The contract terminations come in the wake of a host of damaging revelations about the Bounty parenting club, best known for approaching new mothers on maternity wards with so-called “Bounty Packs”. - Sunday Telegraph

Police have been called in to investigate another exam leak after an unknown number of students had advance sight of part of a GCSE religious studies (RS) paper last month. It is the latest of a series of damaging security breaches to hit summer exams in recent years, with social media enabling cheats to disseminate leaked questions quickly and easily. - Observer

The tropical temperatures dazzling Britain in sunshine today are to turn to rain within 24 hours, as forecasters issue flood warnings all across the country. Torrential downpours could drop up to a month's rain in some places over a 60-hour period of wind, rain, lightning and hail. This week Britain will push to break its 35C June temperature record as a 2,000-mile wide African air plume brings Europe a record heatwave - and the Met Office forecasts a hot summer after the grim Sunday-to-Tuesday period. - Mail on Sunday