Sunday Express

Chancellor Rishi Sunak will use this summer’s G7 conference to spearhead plans for tech giants such as Amazon, Google and Facebook to pay more tax, according to the Sunday Express. 

The chancellor is set to “unveil a £5bn recovery fund for high streets, pubs and shops”, the Sunday Express reports.

The Sunday Express reports that some MPs fear the prime minister’s end-of-lockdown plans are too cautious, despite an improvement in the vaccination timeline.

A group of Conservative MPs have demanded that all coronavirus restrictions are lifted by May – and the Sunday Express reports that the COVID Recovery Group want the prime minister to promise this will be the final lockdown.

In the Sunday Express, the prime minister acknowledges the “immense sacrifice” made by young people who have had their lives upended by “a virus which in truth seldom poses a lethal threat to them”.

The Sunday Express says trade secretary Liz Truss is expected to request to join a £9trn trans-Pacific trading bloc – which the paper says could “light the spark for an economic boom”.Read more on this story here.

Prof Van-Tam’s call for people to be patient and keep adhering to lockdown rules for a little longer, features on the Sunday Express’s front page, along with the news that Boris Johnson has spoken to new US president Joe Biden.

The Sunday Express says we can see the way out of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Sunday Express goes with the news that the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh have both had the COVID-19 vaccine and says the roll-out plan is being sped up.

Some 16.4 million people will be under the new Tier 4 lockdown announced by the prime minister, according to the Sunday Express.