Daily Mail

The Daily Mail has claimed “it’s a merry Brexmas” after Boris Johnson was in “touching distance” of securing a Brexit trade deal on Wednesday.

Millions more people could be “plunged into Tier 4 as soon as Boxing Day” amid fears over the spread of a mutation of coronavirus, the Daily Mail reports.

The Daily Mail says the entirety of England could soon be heading for Tier 4 after warnings by Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance that the new mutant variant of COVID-19 could have spread across the country.

The Daily Mail claims millions of families face months of living under Tier 4 restrictions.

‘It’s beginning to look a lot like lockdown’ is the Daily Mail’s front page headline.The paper claims that government advisers are drawing up plans for a new ‘Tier 4’ for after Christmas, that would be effectively amount to another shutdown.

The “bleakest of midwinters” could be in store for the UK with the latest updates on COVID tiers, the Daily Mail quotes Conservative MP Rob Butler as saying. 

The Daily Mail’s headline is “the fright before Christmas”, which describes Boris Johnson’s warning that families should shorten their Christmas celebrations.People across the UK were told not to stay overnight with their ‘Christmas bubble’, keep windows open and don’t gather in large crowds for the Boxing Day sales.Read our full story on the government’s Christmas guidelines here.

Families will be advised to “stay local” this Christmas, although three households will still be allowed to meet for celebrations, according to the Daily Mail.