Newspaper headlines: Fears over variant spread as millions reunitedon May 18, 2021 at 4:20 am

Many papers report fears that the Indian variant could delay the planned end of lockdown in June.

It’s a “100-million-dollar question”, one government official has told the paper – with the Environment Secretary George Eustice, and his predecessor, Michael Gove on one side of the issue, and the International Trade Secretary, Liz Truss, and the Brexit negotiator, Lord Frost, on the other.