Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are former pensions minister, baroness Ros Altmann and jason beattie, assistant editor of the daily mirror. They are already up to date with the Front Pages and are raring to go. Lets bring you up to date with what we have so far. The telegraph leads on the resignation of the Education Recovery Commissioner Sir Kevan collins, whos quit in protest over the governments pared down plans to help pupils catch up on their lost learning. The resignation of Sir Kevan collins is also on the Front Page of the mirror it carries a picture of the Prime Minister with children in the garden of number ten earlier today. The independent reports on the Prime Ministers comment that lifting all Lockdown Restrictions on 21 June is threatened by ambiguous data. According to the Daily Mail foreign holidays could be under threat because minister are worried about a new covid variant, thought to have originated in
And the long Running Bbc medical drama, Holby CIty is ending after 23 years, wIth the final series to air in march 2022. The man put in charge of the governments plans to help schoolchildren in england recover from the effects of the Covid Lockdown has resigned. In a letter announcing his decision to step down, Sir Kevan collins severely crIticised the level of support that the government has said It will provide. Its proposed spending £11; billion to help children Catch Up on missed edcuation. But Sir Kevan said that was not enough, wrIting the support announced by government so far does not come close to meeting the scale of the challenge , and adding that a half hearted approach risks failing hundreds of thousands of pupils he went on the package falls far short of what is needed. It is too narrow, too small and will be delivered too slowly, and said that It betrays an undervaluation of the importance of education for individuals and society. Lets talk to our polItical corresponde