| The clouds are parting. Restrictions are being eased. And at long last, the sun is beaming down on Britain as we prepare for this long bank holiday weekend.
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Claim this unmissable offer today and make sure you’re kept expertly informed on every crucial step of the road to life beyond lockdown. Writing for The Telegraph on Tuesday, world leaders, including Boris Johnson, Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Emmanuel Macron, called for governments to come together “to predict, prevent, detect, assess and effectively respond” to future pandemics.
We exclusively revealed that the group called for a global accord, akin to that forged after the Second World War, in the wake of increasing tension over vaccine supplies. Ursula von der Leyen, however, has snubbed the world leaders’ plea for an international treaty, with the European Commision president refusing to sign up to the call.
Germany is set to suspend the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine in under-60s after 31 cases of cerebral sinus vein thrombosis in those who had received the jab, with nine of those affected dying. There has been positive news in Britain, however, with official figures revealing that half of the population now have Covid-19 antibodies, while deaths from the virus are at their lowest level since October.
With Tuesday confirmed as the warmest March day in 53 years, Boris Johnson has urged Britons to take advantage of the current weather to get out in the sun, play sport and build our “national resilience”. If you’d rather cook up a storm than work up a sweat, however, our expert is here with the five key secrets to British BBQing. And should your attempts at grilling go awry, worry not, as William Sitwell explains: “The entire point of a British BBQ is that it’s a disaster”.
No matter your plans for the long weekend, you’ll find an array of uncompromising commentary that shows a new side to the day’s biggest stories. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writes that the “UK is not the Covid basket case we all thought” as he expertly analyses the facts and figures behind the pandemic. Anne-Elisabeth Moutet issues a warning to the French leader, arguing “Macron could go down in history as the president who handed France to the far Right”. And don’t miss Camilla Tominey’s insightful, in-depth video, as she explains “Why only the Queen will heal Prince Harry and Meghan's rift with the Royal family”.
Patrick O’Flynn is brilliantly forthright as he states that “In the minds of the British public, lockdown is already over”. Jeremy Warner offers some cautious but well-researched reasons for optimism, reflecting that Britain is “on the brink of a ‘deus ex machina’ moment” as the European economy “sinks into renewed Covid misery”. Michael Deacon, meanwhile, tells the “surreal” story of “The day Laurence Fox launched his bid to beat the London elite... and heckled Sadiq Khan from a bus”.
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