UK Newspaper Archive (July 2020-Present)

Metro says chancellor Rishi Sunak will extend the furlough scheme for millions of workers until October – to avoid catastrophic job losses after Britain leaves lockdown in June.

The Daily Mail reports Chancellor Rishi Sunak will use his Budget next week to create a “post-lockdown boom” with the stamp duty holiday extended, VAT slashed for hospitality and the 5p fuel duty hike axed. 

The i reports that a rise in COVID rule-breaking has prompted officials to launch a new campaign encouraging people to “stay at home” as lockdown fatigue kicks in.

Holiday bookings soared 600% yesterday as Britons hoped to plan in a post-lockdown getaway, writes the Daily Express. Here’s the full story.

The Daily Mirror is looking forward to the “best days of our lives” as it was revealed the last lockdown restrictions could be lifted as early as 21 June. 

The prime minister has revealed his “cautious but irreversible” steps out of lockdown following a “wretched year”, writes the Daily Express.

“118 days until freedom,” declares The Daily Telegraph after Boris Johnson laid out his plans for the easing of lockdown. See all the key dates here. 

The Daily Star also leads on the nation’s roadmap out of lockdown, praising the prime minister’s plans as “vaguely sensible”. 

England is set to return to something close to normal life in June under the prime minister’s plans for releasing lockdown, according to The Independent. 

The Financial Times leads on Boris Johnson’s insistence there is an “end in sight” to harsh coronavirus restrictions despite the government’s “cautious” approach to lockdown easing. 

Six friends – or two households – will be allowed to meet outside from Easter as the government takes a more cautious approach to lockdown easing, writes The Guardian. All the details can be found here.

Also leading on Boris Johnson’s expected announcement on lockdown easing, The Independent says families will be able to meet in each other’s gardens by 29 March.You can read our story on the plan here.

Government guidance telling people to “stay at home” and in their local areas will be scrapped on 29 March, according to The Daily Telegraph. The first details of the route out of lockdown are detailed here.

Boris Johnson will be using four tests to determine England’s easing of lockdown which will be revealed on Monday, writes Metro. Sky News has taken a look at how these tests might be passed.

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.

The government’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty has objected to the prime minister’s plans to ease lockdown in the coming weeks, according to reports in The Guardian.

Two households will be allowed to meet outside by Easter and care home residents will be allowed visitors within weeks of the prime minister’s “roadmap out of lockdown” announcement on Monday, reports The Daily Telegraph.

Vaccine data is showing a path out of lockdowns, according to The Daily Telegraph, which adds that “real world” figures show the jabs cut coronavirus infections by two-thirds. 

The Daily Mirror leads on the prime minister’s claims that lockdown will be eased “in stages” and “with caution”. You can read the latest on restrictions being eased here.

Boris Johnson is planning a “mass testing blitz” as the prime minister plans the easing of lockdown, The Times reports. 

Lockdown is unlikely to be eased significantly until daily cases are in the hundreds, The Daily Telegraph understands.

Boris Johnson has said our emergence from the current coronavirus lockdown will be “cautious but irreversible”, Metro reports.Read more here.

The prime minister is resisting calls for an end to the coronavirus lockdown by May, according to The Guardian.