Observer

Tory MPs are ready to oust Boris Johnson if he tries to dodge responsibility for rule-breaking parties at No 10 – that’s on the front of The Observer.

The Observer reports COVID-19 should be treated as an endemic virus – similar to flu – and ministers should end mass vaccination after the booster campaign according to the UK’s vaccine taskforce.

Ministers have said all secondary school pupils should return to wearing masks in classrooms, The Observer reports.

The Guardian also leads on the story of Simon Case, who has been forced to step down from the inquiry into alleged lockdown-breaking parties at Downing Street, after claims that there was a party held in his office.

Third COVID jabs are being opened up to those in their 30s in England from tomorrow, The Observer reports. It also says an opinion poll has put Labour nine points ahead of the Tories.

Trust in politicians to act in the national interest rather than for themselves has fallen dramatically since Boris Johnson became prime minister, The Observer reports.

The Observer writes that the prime minister has “absolute confidence” this Christmas will be better than the last – despite reimposing a range of restrictions to combat the new, highly transmissible variant of COVID-19.Also on the front page, an interview with a man whose wife and children were among the 27 people who drowned in the Channel.

The Guardian has interviewed the former chair of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, who says the rejection of multiculturalism by successive Conservative governments has helped fuel “vulgar racism” of the kind experienced by cricketer Azeem Rafiq.