In the headlines
Anti-vax groups are targeting schools with leafleting and letter-writing campaigns, says Nick Duffy in the I newspaper, in anticipation of Covid jabs for 12- to 15-year-olds beginning next week. Former union boss Len McCluskey has accused Keir Starmer of breaking a private promise to readmit Jeremy Corbyn to the Labour Party. Starmer can’t be trusted and is leading Labour to electoral ruin, McCluskey says in The Guardian. Boris Johnson’s mother Charlotte Johnson Wahl has died age 79. When she was heavily pregnant with Johnson, a Russian called Boris Litwin bought her a plane ticket from Mexico to New York, where the family lived at the time, so she wouldn’t have to take the bus – hence the PM’s distinctive name.