Brexit 

Express 
EMMANUEL MACRON and the EU are set for more hostility towards the UK in an attempt to “bring Brexit down” according to a political scientist.
Director of UK in a Changing Europe, Professor Anand Menon insisted French President   Emmanuel Macron considers fights with Britain good politics. During an interview with Express.co.uk, he argued hostility from both sides was expected to continue for two key reasons. One reason being the issues surrounding Northern Ireland and another being the EU’s determination to see Brexit fail.
“There are at least two good reasons why there are Brexit rows are going on.
“The first is because there are genuine substantive issues of which the EU and UK disagree.
“They could yet pull the whole thing down and Northern Ireland is the obvious case there.
“The two sides disagree about how to implement the protocol and that is leading to a lot of bad feeling between them.” 

EU 

Express
THE European Union will not stop until it has removed all “sovereign powers” from its members amid its plans to create a European superstate, an MP has warned.
Speaking to Express.co.uk, one Tory MP praised Brexit for saving the UK from the long-spoken idea of an EU superstate. According to Marco Longhi, MP for Dudley North, Brussels ultimately wants to remove the sovereign powers of its 27 member states. Eventually, the Tory MP claimed each member will soon become a “vassal state” to the EU project.
While the UK attempted to be a reliable ally as part of the EU, the MP insisted Britain always had the desire to be the master of its own destiny.
Mr Longhi said: “I think it’s been planned for a while.
“I think it’s been known in wider circles that this has been the plan among EU members, particularly certain EU members and the Commission.
“I mean, Guy Verhofstadt has been quite open about that in a number of his speeches.
“They want to ultimately remove what sovereign powers each individual member state has.
“If you like, even though each state would then be identified by the name, they become a vassal state to this superpower, with all their powers centralised in Brussels and Strasburg.
“And hence the reason for every bit of legislation that’s been coming out has been pulling individual member states in that direction. 

Covid 

Express
COMMUTERS are running the risk of dying from Covid on trains over the next four months, rail safety chiefs have warned.
Figures found by the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) have warned the Government about the high risk of infection. They are now under pressure to quit a national campaign promoting the safety of train travel.
This campaign was set to launch on Monday.
However, the RSSB found that the number of potential deaths due to Covid infections on trains over the next four months “ranges from double to triple figures”, according to the Daily Telegraph.
These findings are shared with rail executives and the Department for Transport every fortnight.
But they have refused to make the data available to the general public that include commuters travelling and using the trains. 

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NHS 

Times
It is the single biggest challenge facing the NHS. How does it tackle the backlog of care that ballooned during the pandemic — and how long will it take?
Millions of patients have been waiting for appointments, treatments and operations for months. But with thousands of people still becoming infected with the coronavirus, patients will have to wait even longer.
Sajid Javid, the health secretary, has repeatedly been warned in recent weeks by his senior advisers of a simple truth: the crisis will get worse before it gets better. “There’s no way to sugarcoat the projections,” one government official said. “They are grim.” 

Afghanistan 

Mail
The Taliban have now taken control of Jalalabad, spelling the fall of the last major Afghan city other than Kabul to the extremist fighters and leaving the isolated capital increasingly vulnerable to a takeover.  
An Afghan official confirmed the key eastern city fell under Taliban control without a fight early Sunday morning when the governor surrendered, saying it was ‘the only way to save civilian lives.’ 
Its fall has also given the Taliban control of a road leading to the Pakistan city of Peshawar, one of the main highways into landlocked Afghanistan.  
Jalalabad is close to the Pakistani border and just 80 miles from Kabul – the   Afghanistan capital home to more than four million people and now the only remaining major city still under government control. Besides Kabul, just seven other provincial capitals out of the country’s 34 are yet to fall to the Taliban.
Concerns are mounting over how long Kabul can stave off the Taliban insurgents as they have captured the northern stronghold of Mazar-i-Sharif, the second-largest city Kandahar and third-largest city Herat all within the last 48 hours.   

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