Newspaper headlines: 'U-turn' on mandatory NHS staff jabs in England

While the smiling face of the most successful male tennis player of the modern era, Rafael Nadal, beams from most front pages, many of the lead stories still focus on Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

The Daily Mail is one of many to report that in a bid to move on from partygate, Mr Johnson is pledging to end the remaining EU laws on the statute book and slash red tape.

The Guardian says with what it calls a policy blitz, a Brexit Bill and a visit to Ukraine, Mr Johnson is trying to seize back control of the government's agenda.

The Daily Express says the "bonfire of Brussels red tape" will save British companies £1bn a year.

The i says the PM's "fightback" isn't enough to silence his critics - with some Tory MPs furious about the decision to push ahead with the rise in National Insurance. One MP tells the paper they'll stand as an independent at the next election if Mr Johnson is still in charge.

But the Daily Mirror says Mr Johnson is "increasingly sure" he won't be challenged for the Tory leadership and is "privately reassured" he will not be forced out when Sue Gray's report is published.

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The Daily Telegraph is confident that the meeting this morning to discuss mandatory Covid vaccinations for NHS staff will rubber stamp the abandonment of the policy.

Sources tell the paper the decision is being taken because the Omicron variant is believed to be milder than previous strains, and so compulsory jabs are not proportionate.

An investigation in the Times has found that the percentage of burglaries solved in England and Wales has halved over the past seven years. It says police solved just 5% of cases last year - with just one in 30 reaching court in some areas.

The Times carries a study from America trying to find out why it is that when we see things in inanimate objects - a house that looks like Hitler; Jesus's face in burnt toast; or a green pepper that resembles Richard Nixon - the image always seems to be male.

Some 4,000 people were shown pictures of items including a melancholy looking handbag and an elderly potato and reported viewing the objects as looking male by a ratio of 4:1.

The lead author, Susan Wardle, tells the paper, it's as if our brain treats male images as the default and needs extra information, or features, to see it as female.