Hello, i m katty kay in washington, david eades is in london. Is this the moment israel bids farewell to its prime minister of the last twelve years and ushers in a new coalition including an arab party for the first time? there is, officially, one more hour to go for this potential coalition of eight opposition parties stretching across the political spectrum to strike the deal that will take benjamin netanyahu out of government after four elections in just two yea rs. Extraordinary enough that it brings together such an ideological hotch potch of parties and that it could be headed initially by the leader of the right wing yamina party, naftali bennet, who once served under netanyahu. Throw the united arab list or raam party into the mix and it really would be a coalition of unknown quantity. anyone but bibi might be their slogan. Let s cross to jerusalem now and speak to our correspondent yolande knell we do sojust we do so just as they re pointing out a line to suggest ar
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. Let s 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, who s quit in protest over the government s 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 minister s 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 origin
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me arejenny kleeman, the times radio presenter, and henry zeffman, who s chief political correspondent at the times. Tomorrow s front pages starting with. The telegraph reports on the mounting pressure borisjohnson is under to push ahead with lifting the remaining covid restrictions on june 21. The metro leads on the news that today was the uk s first day without a single death from covid since the start of the pandemic 15 months ago. The daily mail says the landmark day is being seen by many as dramatic proof of the success of britain s vaccination programme. The times also hails the milestone but warns that the fatalities figure may nudge upwards in the coming weeks especially because of reporting delays over the bank holiday weekend. The daily express adds that it s renewed hopes that all restrictions will still be lifted on what it calls freedom day june 21. The guardian reports