Friday’s Papers UK Front Pages and Headlines

The Daily Star leads with the news that kids’ toy Mr Potato Head is now gender neutral and will be known only as Potato Head.

The Queen evoked a “wartime spirit” in what the Daily Express calls a “shock message” encouraging people to get the COVID vaccine.

A tax “raid” on wealthy pensioners is imminent, according to The Times.It says the lifetime pension allowance will be frozen at £1m in the Budget, meaning more people may have to pay “punitive tax charges”.

There will be no pay rise for NHS workers in next week’s Budget and the chancellor won’t make a decision until May, the i newspaper says

The Daily Mail says the Queen’s comments on the coronavirus jab amount to a “historic intervention”.The monarch said people with doubts about getting vaccinated should “think about other people rather than themselves”. 

Friday night’s review guests will be Susie Boniface – Fleet Street Fox and Daily Mirror columnist, and Conservative commentator Tim Montgomerie.

The Queen’s comments on people who are unsure about whether to have the vaccine also lead The Daily Telegraph. The 94-year-old had the jab at Windsor Castle in January, the paper adds.

The Guardian leads with a warning that the UK could get more extreme winters after scientists said the Gulf Stream was its weakest for more than 1,000 years.