Cutting poverty and inequality is the best way to cut crime, a senior police officer has told The Guardian.

The Guardian splashes on pregnant women now being allowed a coronavirus jab. The paper also pays tribute to actress Helen McCrory who died of cancer.

The Guardian reports on concerns within Whitehall over the expansion of rapid COVID testing. 

The government’s own equalities watchdog has warned that so-called COVID passports could be discriminatory and therefore illegal – so says The Guardian.

And the revelation also makes the front of The Guardian. Downing Street and Cabinet Office sources, it says, are “deeply concerned” at the revelation. 

The Guardian reports on the Greensill Capital inquiry ordered by Boris Johnson, saying it will have the power to recommend changes to lobbying rules.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is looking into the feasibility of legalising cannabis, according to The Guardian.

The Guardian says a new scheme in England, offering everyone two rapid COVID-19 tests each week from Friday, is billed as a way of tracking outbreaks of potentially vaccine-resistant variants of the virus.

Patients could be waiting up to two years for vital operations by the time of the next election because of a “truly frightening” backlog of care caused by the pandemic, The Guardian reports.

Doreen Lawrence, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, has called a government race report a “green light” for racists, The Guardian reports.