2021-06-04
i Front Page 4th of June 2021
The i says “Holiday in the UK to save 21 June”, as the paper reports on the changes to the holiday travel list. 21 June is when the next stage of lockdown measures is due to be eased.
The i says “Holiday in the UK to save 21 June”, as the paper reports on the changes to the holiday travel list. 21 June is when the next stage of lockdown measures is due to be eased.
The latest changes to the UK’s traffic light travel list makes the lead story for the Metro. The paper splashes the headline “Britain Is Grounded”.
The Financial Times leads on a story that global food prices rose by 40% in May, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. This will hit poorer countries particularly hard, the paper reports.
The Daily Express reports that education tsar Sir Kevan Collins has quit, blaming Number 10 for underfunding COVID catch-up lessons.
Britain’s hot weather could have a sting in the tail – in the form of 20,000-strong swarms of angry bees, the Daily Star writes.
Boris Johnson has been accused of failing hundreds of thousands of children by the man he appointed to lead the government’s coronavirus recovery task force for schools, The Times reports.
The Daily Mirror leads with “Johnson’s schools betrayal” after the education catch-up tsar resigned after getting “a fraction of the cash needed for the COVID scheme”.
The government has admitted the plan to lift all coronavirus restrictions later this month could be blown off track, The Independent reports.
Boris Johnson’s “education catch-up tsar” has resigned after accusing ministers of a “half-hearted” approach to helping children whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic, The Daily Telegraph reports.