Holidaymakers from England travelling to amber list countries won’t need to quarantine on return if they’re fully vaccinated, but Britons living overseas won’t be ready to prove their vaccine status if they need to be jabbed abroad, Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, has announced.

Ministers are twiddling with fire if they remove Covid restrictions in England without providing adequate wage to assist anyone who tests positive for Covid to self-isolate, a number one think tank has warned.

The number of patients expecting NHS treatment in England broke records for the second month in a row to succeed in 5.3 million, official figures show, prompting warnings the large care backlog could exacerbate health maintenance staff burnout.

Paul Givan, Northern Ireland’s first minister, has signalled that each one Covid restrictions in his region are likely to finish in August. These are from Jayne McCormack and Enda McClafferty from the BBC.

Boris Johnson has been cleared by parliament’s committee on standards of wrongly declaring a luxury villa stay in Mustique funded by a Tory donor – but criticised for failing to determine the small print himself at the time.

Johnson has announced the end of Britain’s mission in Afghanistan following a hasty and secretive exit of the last remaining troops 20 years after the post 9/11 invasion that started the “war on terror”.