Jabs, EU tensions and differing takes on the “pub passport” are splashed across the front pages.
The public will be protected against newer strains of coronavirus with booster shots offered as part of a ‘revaccination campaign” from October, the i reports, though the Financial Times notes the global rollout has been dealt a blow after India banned vaccine exports.
Revealed; UK vaccine plan for booster jab
Friday’s front page#TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/VkgaaJjW0M
— i newspaper (@theipaper) March 25, 2021
Just published: front page of the Financial Times, UK edition, Friday 26 March https://t.co/kiVFqVwY37 pic.twitter.com/guBzbpglEF
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) March 25, 2021
The Daily Express, meanwhile, is confident the UK’s vaccination programme “will complete on time despite the EU paving the way to block jabs”.
EXPRESS: EU can’t stop us! We WILL all get jab by July #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/kfqpX2sAKt
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) March 25, 2021
Metro also focuses on the bloc, with the paper saying French President Emmanuel Macron “has made the startling confession the EU is to blame for botching” its vaccine rollout.
Tomorrow’s paper tonight! ?
MACRON: EU IS TO BLAME
‘We Didn’t Go Fast Enough Or Strong Enough On Vaccines’#TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/sXsrTELt9U
— Metro (@MetroUK) March 25, 2021
Hospitality bosses have told the Daily Mail that plans for drinkers to use a “pub passport” on their phones to prove they are Covid-free constitute “madness”.
Friday’s @DailyMailUK #MailFrontPages pic.twitter.com/XIbjX7V8BA
— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) March 25, 2021
But The Guardian reports the Government believes the pub check strategy could help tackle vaccine hesitancy among young people.
Guardian front page, Friday 26 March 2021: Pub check strategy to make young people seek vaccine pic.twitter.com/VhIUcX92FC
— The Guardian (@guardian) March 25, 2021
Grieving family members in the Daily Mirror call on the Prime Minister to set a date for an inquiry “into his mishandling” of the pandemic.
Tomorrow’s front page: Tell us why they died https://t.co/pC0Oo66bEY #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/DOnYrYM2Tp
— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) March 25, 2021
The NHS will spend £96 million to increase staffing of doctors and midwives on maternity wards following the scandal at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust, The Independent reports.
INDEPENDENT DIGITAL: NHS pledges £96m to make childbirth safer #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/xR4p197imO
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) March 25, 2021
The Times and The Daily Telegraph say Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has weighed in after a West Yorkshire teacher was suspended for reportedly showing a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed to pupils.
THE TIMES: @GavinWilliamson enters row over cartoon of Prophet #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/MxL6fF8Vmg
— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) March 25, 2021
The front page of tomorrow’s Telegraph:
‘Williamson condemns threats against Mohammed teacher’#TomorrowsPapersToday
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— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 25, 2021
And the Daily Star has a photograph of “a bloke in a digger” as it says “one man and his dog” are fixing the new Suez canal crisis.
Tomorrow’s front page: We’re gonna need a bigger digger #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/1UZsAqXNMr pic.twitter.com/aScpjVlx2O
— Daily Star (@dailystar) March 25, 2021
