The Daily Telegraph writes that Boris Johnson is set to scrap Plan B Covid restrictions as he plots to win back the public and his Tory peers amid the scandal of “partygate”. The paper also writes that Conservative MPs will hold crisis talks over the weekend amid mounting public outrage over lockdown-busting party allegations. Guardian front page, Saturday 15 January 2022: Tory grassroots fury grows as No 10 apologises to Queen pic.twitter.com/ceC2fPiUuN — Guardian news (@guardiannews) January 14, 2022The Daily Mirror reports No10 staff held “weekly wine time Fridays” while the rest of the nation was under strict lockdown. The Daily Express writes that the “devoted Queen deserves better” than the alleged conduct of No10 during a lockdown which saw her forced to solitarily mourn her husband. TIMES: You are in last chance saloon, PM is warned #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/YYyP06M6my — Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) January 14, 2022The FT Weekend also splashes with the scandal engulfing the PM, writing that his “future hangs by (a) thread”.

Source: The Times January 15, 2022 02:14 UTC