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The Times says France is responsible for the breakdown of Brexit trade talks and that negotiator Michel Barnier “ambushed Britain at the insistence of President Macron”.

Hospitals will receive an initial 800,000 doses to vaccinate staff, reports The Times, but it echoes Boris Johnson’s message the process of vaccinating the nation could “take months”.

Family and friends who test negative for COVID will now be able to visit people in care homes, The Times reports.

The Times says a secret dossier has been drawn up by the government on the impact of coronavirus on the economy, revealing that sectors such as the automotive industry, retail and the arts are facing significant job cuts and revenue losses.

The government will promise cleaner air and water and more humane treatment of livestock under the biggest change in farming policy for half a century, according to The Times.

Every hospital in England faces being overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases if MPs fail to back the government’s tough new restrictions, Michael Gove has warned in The Times. 

Tougher coronavirus restrictions impacting tens of millions of people throughout January are needed to avoid yet another national lockdown. The Times reports on that warning by Boris Johnson.Read more here.

The Times leads with news that the COVID pandemic will cost the British economy three years of growth.