Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph leads on the mounting pressure on Boris Johnson to delay the final step of easing COVID restrictions on 21 June following Nicola Sturgeon’s decision to delay on Tuesday.

The Daily Telegraph reports that richer countries must urgently give more COVID vaccines to poorer nations or risk new variants emerging that could bring about future lockdowns, according to leading bodies.

Plans to make COVID passports a legal requirement for large events will be dropped, according to The Daily Telegraph.

The Daily Telegraph reports that Boris Johnson may next month need to take a decision on whether to vaccinate children against COVID – with the JCVI laying out a “menu of options” for the prime minister to take a “political decision” on.

The fallout from Dominic Cummings’ explosive evidence to MPs is the lead in The Daily Telegraph, which reports Health Secretary Matt Hancock is under growing political pressure over the care homes policy early in the COVID pandemic. 

The Daily Telegraph says Mr Cummings got his revenge by blaming not only the PM but also Health Secretary Matt Hancock for pandemic handling errors.

According to The Daily Telegraph, ministers have been forced into retreat over “local lockdowns” after councils threatened to defy new rules.

Fully vaccinated people will be forced to self-isolate for 10 days if they come into contact with someone infected with COVID after 21 June, according to The Daily Telegraph.

Britain is at risk of replacing the coronavirus crisis with a cancer crisis, experts have warned in The Daily Telegraph.

A major shake-up is being planned at the BBC, The Daily Telegraph says, after the revelations about Martin Bashir’s interview with Princess Diana. More on that story here.