The Daily Star reckons new COVID marshalls could be “laughing stocks”.
A £15bn trade deal with Japan has boosted confidence that Britain will thrive outside the EU, according to the Daily Express.
Boris Johnson is being urged to “rescue Christmas” by exempting children from the “rule of six” on social distancing, the Daily Mail says.
Boris Johnson is drawing up plans to fine people who breach self-isolation rules, The Times reports.
Boris Johnson has accused the European Union of threatening to impose a food “blockade” in the Irish Sea, The Daily Telegraph reports.
The Daily Mirror leads on the latest coronavirus R number – which has risen above 1 across the UK.
The Financial Times says documents it has seen show the government was warned in January that Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal would leave Brussels able to claim jurisdiction over “large amounts” of UK state aid policy after the end of the transition period.
Army medics are expected to help administer the “biggest vaccination push in British history”, the i weekend reports. Tens of millions of coronavirus injections cannot be delivered by GPs and chemists, the paper adds, and the military is in talks with the NHS to help deliver injections.