NEWS
Jobless total to hit 1980s levels without fresh state support
Unemployment in Britain could soar to levels not seen since the 1980s unless ministers boost support for businesses struggling because of the lockdown, Labour warns today as the main parties join battle over how to rescue the economy from the wreckage of the Covid-19 crisis – Observer
Councils set to make sweeping cuts to local services to fill £6bn Covid hole – Sunday Telegraph
Richard Desmond: ‘Boris Johnson promised to alter gambling rules for me’ – Sunday Times
Britain’s childhood obesity crisis made worse by lockdown – Sunday Times
Two reported stabbed on Clapton Common as London’s crimewave continues – Sunday Express
COMMENT
Evil terrorists? No, they’re just solitary drug-crazed losers – Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday
Can ministers not see that inhuman lockdown rules are driving this terrible disorder? – Janet Daley, Sunday Telegraph
It feels like Britain is suffering a mental breakdown with all the values that bind us being torn apart – Douglas Murray, Mail on Sunday
