Daily Telegraph

Ministers have been warned plans to allow late-night pubs and bars to sell takeaway alcohol will spark street violence and drunkenness, according to The Daily Telegraph.

Companies will be paid cash bonuses to hire young people as trainees as part of government plans to “alleviate post-coronavirus unemployment”, The Daily Telegraph reports.

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, a close friend of Ghislaine Maxwell claims the socialite would never give any information about Prince Andrew to US justice officials after she was charged as part of their investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. 

The Daily Telegraph reports that the rate of COVID-19 cases in England has dropped almost 40% in the past week. It also carries a striking picture of a man being detained by police during a protest in Hong Kong against a new security law.

Leicester has become the first city in Britain to be plunged back into lockdown after public health officials expressed alarm at a significant rise in COVID-19 cases, The Daily Telegraph writes.

Boris Johnson will begin the search for a Brexiteer to run the Civil Service after its current head was ousted ahead of a wholesale reform of Whitehall, The Daily Telegraph writes. 

The Daily Telegraph says quarantine has been scrapped for dozens of holiday destinations, and the “flyaway date” is likely to be Monday 6 July.

Boris Johnson is under pressure to open air bridges “to the whole of Europe at once”, according to The Daily Telegraph.