Times Front Page 1st of March 2021
Home Secretary Priti Patel threatens to jail people smugglers for life, according to The Times.
Home Secretary Priti Patel threatens to jail people smugglers for life, according to The Times.
Former prime minister Gordon Brown has called for the chancellor to use the budget to boost jobs and avoid condemning a “whole generation of young people” to a jobless future – that’s on the front of the Daily Mirror.
The Daily Star delivers some bad news: socks and sandals are back.
The chancellor will spend £1.65bn on coronavirus vaccines to get Britain back to normal sooner, according to the Daily Express.
The Daily Mail reports that half of Britain’s police stations have closed in the past decade.
The Daily Telegraph leads with the search for a mystery COVID-19 patient thought to be one of the first in the UK to have a Brazilian variant of the virus which may spread more rapidly and evade vaccines.
Some 80% of the EU’s AstraZeneca vaccines are sitting unused and the bloc has been told to use them or give them to some of the 130 poorer countries that have yet to receive even one dose – that’s on the front of Metro.
The government is facing calls for tougher border measures following the news that a worrying Brazilian variant of the coronavirus has been found in the UK, The Guardian reports.
The Financial Times says that Britain’s economic recovery looks a little more assured, amid news that more than 20 million people have had at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccination.