NEWS
Prime Minister faces calls for inquiry into role his fiancee plays in running country
Boris Johnson’s fiancee has effectively become his Downing Street chief of staff, a former colleague of hers claimed last night. Carrie Symonds’s ‘unelected and unaccountable’ role in Government is ‘damaging to democracy,’ according to Nic Conner, who worked with Miss Symonds on the Brexit campaign, and is now research fellow for the Bow Group which has called for an independent inquiry on Ms Symonds’s power — Mail
All schools will reopen on March 8, with outdoor gatherings widened three weeks later, but agony goes on for shops, pubs and salons — Mail
Chinese Communist Party withheld pandemic-relevant data from WHO, leaked documents reveal — Epoch Times
Campaigners say Britain will ‘look back with horror’ on the way it has treated those in care homes in response to Covid — Mail
EU member states ditch Brussels’ joint vaccine scheme — Express
Four top generals demand Boris Johnson calls a halt to troop cuts — Mail
John Lewis ‘is set to shut eight more of its 42 department stores’, just seven months after axing another eight of its locations — Mail
UK to call for UN probe of Uighur camps in China’s Xinjiang province — Financial Times
COMMENT
These feuding tribes have turned Number 10 into a playground — Andrew Pierce, Mail
There is no roadmap that can take us back to the way things used to be — Nick Timothy, Telegraph
