2021-10-21
Metro Front Page 21st of October 2021
The Metro leads also on comments from the health secretary, who is asking people to get a coronavirus booster jab and a flu jab.
The Metro leads also on comments from the health secretary, who is asking people to get a coronavirus booster jab and a flu jab.
The Metro leads on comments from Boris Johnson, who was speaking ahead of COP26.He said Britain can hit its net-zero carbon emissions target by 2050 without people having to sacrifice holidays and cars.
Some 800 meat workers from the EU will be offered visas to help Britain’s pork industry address a shortage of abattoir workers.
Star Trek star William Shatner has become the oldest person in space after his trip on a Blue Origin rocket.
The Metro leads with ministers repeatedly refusing to apologise for pandemic mistakes that “wasted tens of thousands of lives”.
A Treasury official has accused the business secretary of lying when he said he was in talks with the Treasury about emergency packages to help firms struggling with energy prices, according to Metro.
Vladimir Putin has been accused of using his stranglehold over Europe’s power supply as “a weapon” after allowing gas prices to surge to an all-time high, reports the Metro.
Leading with a picture of the prime minister getting a kiss from his wife, Metro says Boris Johnson led a “banter-packed” speech that was “short on policies” at the Tory party conference.