Rule-breaking, Omicron, vaccine passports and other pandemic developments are splashed across the national papers. The Daily Mail calls the situation a “sick joke”, while those responsible are branded “No 10 party clowns” by Metro, which says staff called their celebration a “meeting” to avoid getting caught. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is quoted on the front of The Guardian calling for Boris Johnson to “come clean and apologise” over the claimed revelry. The US is putting pressure on Germany to allow blocking Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline as part of possible sanctions if Vladimir Putin invades Ukraine, according to the Financial Times. Just published: front page of the Financial Times, UK edition, Wednesday 8 December https://t.co/G7353Cvv2W pic.twitter.com/EAiQLwVzo1 — Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) December 7, 2021And The Sun says energy sector leaders “felt the heat” yesterday after they tried to blame the power cuts which followed Storm Arwen on the “wrong kind of wind”.

Source: The Times December 08, 2021 02:25 UTC