Newspaper headlines: 'No green light to jab kids' and Met police 'rotten'

"Rotten to the Core" is the headline on the front of the Daily Mail, which says the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick is "fighting for survival" after being criticised over the unsolved murder of the private investigator Daniel Morgan.

The paper says the publication of a report accusing the Met of "decades of cover-up, incompetence and corruption" represented a shameful day for policing.

Its associate editor, Stephen Wright, says this latest fiasco for Dame Cressida proves she's not up to the job and has to go.

The Guardian calls it a "travesty of public service" that the Met has been branded "institutionally corrupt", more than 20 years after being described as "institutionally racist" by the Macpherson Report.

Several papers pick up on comments made by the Leader of the Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg, about the delay to fully lifting lockdown restrictions in England.

Mr Rees-Mogg told a podcast on the Conservative Home website that you shouldn't "run society purely to stop the hospitals being full" - adding that "the NHS is there to serve the British people," rather than the other way around.

The Times says that with "discomfort over the plan spreading beyond the hardcore of lockdown sceptics", the prime minister is working to convince moderate MPs to vote in favour of his plan to extend the restrictions on Wednesday.

The Daily Telegraph says experts are advising the government against ordering the mass rollout of vaccinations for children - until scientists have more data on the risks.

The paper says members of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation are understood to have voiced serious ethical concerns about jabs for children - given they rarely suffer serious illness from Covid-19.

A Whitehall source tells the paper scientists want to gather more information from the US - which has already begun vaccinating children.

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The government's triple-lock pension pledge could cost the Treasury an additional £4bn this year, according to the Financial Times.

The lock promise - enshrined in the Conservatives' manifesto - ensures state pensions rise annually by the highest out of average earnings growth, inflation or 2.5%.

The FT says the furlough scheme is distorting the figure for wage growth, with the incomes of millions of people appearing to jump as they return to full pay this summer, from the reduced wages paid for by the government last year.

Boris Johnson's former race adviser tells the Guardian that some members of the government are seeking to inflame the UK's culture wars by exploiting divisions for electoral gain.

Samuel Kasumu, who resigned two months ago, says he fears there could be another Stephen Lawrence or Jo Cox tragedy if the situation continues. A No 10 spokesperson tells the paper the government is focused on defeating the pandemic and building back fairer for everyone.

And the Sun says Jennifer Saunders doesn't think she would get away with making her sitcom Absolutely Fabulous in what it describes as "today's woke era."

The 62-year-old actress blames "bigotry and small-mindedness" - saying comedians and writers "talk themselves out of" making certain jokes, because "everything is sensitive" and they fear the backlash.

It all makes for an "Ab Drab Britain" according to the front page headline.