welcome to bbc news. the uk prime minister's top adviser, dominic cummings, denies doing anything wrong when he drove hundreds of miles to his parents‘ home during the lockdown. in this very complex situation, i tried to exercise my judgement the best i could. i believe that in all circumstances, i behaved reasonably and legally, balancing safety of my family and the extreme situation in number ten and the public interest in effective government. the uk prime minister announces all nonessential retailers can reopen in england from the 15th ofjune. outdoor markets and car showrooms will reopen next week. spain says it's going reopen its borders, lifting the two—week coronavirus quarantine requirement for foreign travellers from july the 1st.

and greece has also begun easing restrictions to help boost its flagging tourism industry. greeks are once again able to travel freely to the country's islands. now on bbc news, it's time for the papers. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are jack blanchard, editor of politico's london playbook, and madeline grant, deputy comment editor at the daily telegraph. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. .. the metro leads with the news that the uk prime minister's top adviser, dominic cummings, has refused to apologise to the public after taking a 260—mile trip at the height of lockdown. the i says mr cummings was unrepentant at the press conference he gave to explain his actions, and the paper highlights what it calls an outpouring

of dismay from scientists, some ministers, medics and police. the daily mail calls borisjohnson‘s top aide "defiant" after he said he had no regrets and blamed the media for the controversy engulfing the uk government. in france, le figaro talks of "the shock that france dreads" admist fears of huge job losses when the french government winds down its coronavirus support measures. the japan times says the japanese government is tiptoeing its way into a new reality still riddled with uncertainty after it rescinded the state of emergency in hokkaido and the tokyo metropolitan area. and back in the uk, the express is celebratory as the prime minister, borisjohnson, says nonessential shops will open next month. so, let's begin. thank you very much. we shall start with two papers who almost never agree on anything. they have almost

got the exact same headline but they had just got in tomorrow morning in a different order. first the daily mirror, no regrets, no apology referencing slightly edith p. the daily mail, no apology, no regrets. jack came up when did you last see these two papers having almost the exact same headline? may if anyone a really big football match. there is not very much that brings the nation together or these papers together as one like this but dominic cummings and downing street had managed it with the sort of freak show we saw in the rose garden this afternoon. and it was an extraordinary spectacle. i wonder how many people actually came in from the glorious bank holiday weather to come and watch that and him and he just stayed outside and had a barbecue in the garden like sensible folk. stayed outside and had a barbecue in the garden like sensible folklj came infora the garden like sensible folklj came in for a park and the garden like sensible folklj came infora park and it was the garden like sensible folklj came in for a park and it was pretty packed. people were disses but no one was rushing office in the news

conference. madeline, what about you from two papers with don't normally have much common ground? is very surprising. the only time i would imagine they might have run something like this will be nonpolitical like the royal family or something. so it has amazed me actually to see the level of agreement between generally quite different press courses. but it does surprise me in a way because the with the media has been a level of outrage directed at borisjohnson and dominic cummings in this government that i think has not always been quite appropriate to the kind of alleged court crime in question. and i think many people feel uncertain a bit and many feel there has been an overreaction across the media to what has happened here and it will appear as if what was on the minds of some

journalists was notjust if what was on the minds of some journalists was not just an attempt to get to the facts of the matter but also perhaps a sense of some old scores being settled and resentments and things to go further than just the question of his trip to durham or even the lockdown itself. you could expect the daily mirror and the guardian which have distinct points of view of the world and i don't have that share much with dominic cummings for opposing his actions but the daily mail is the paper which said rejoice when boris johnson and dominic cummings won the general election in december. it said what planet are they on it yesterday and heard the news conference and now is say no apology, no regrets. the daily mail is not giving ground. it does not appear to be at all. i think there isa appear to be at all. i think there is a lot ofjustified anger about this because i think there is something quite hard—wired into the british dna that really hates

hypocrisy and hypocrites. so it is quite understandable that there would be this reaction in the face ofa would be this reaction in the face of a situation that seems to be a case of one rule for them and another rule for the rest of us. but lam another rule for the rest of us. but i am actually somewhat surprised by the extent of outrage at the daily mail because i think that the explanation that dominic cummings gave given the circumstances really does seem to have been an exceptional situation. i think that most people would empathize with the need to seek child care at a time when genuine extreme circumstances and you have the virus and your wife is ill and your uncle has died of the virus and you have gotten ill child potentially on your hands and you have to find childcare. that does seem quite justifiable to me some a bit surprised the daily mail has gone quite so hard but it is perhaps a do with that hatred of democracy that we british half.

almost a battle sometimes, jacobo between dominic cummings and the daily mailfor the ear of between dominic cummings and the daily mail for the ear of middle england. i wonder who is winning that battle. —— the hatred of hypocrisy. first of all none of that was a situation. dominic cummings did not have the virus may travelled to 60 miles across the country and his uncle died sadly later in the whole situation and one was ill but the child was not ill as he told it's a situation was not exceptional. he was somebody where a small family of three were one was ill and small family of three were one was illand a small family of three were one was ill and a situation that thousands upon thousands of parents have been putting themselves unfortunately in this country and around the world and over the last two months. nothing exceptional about it is all as far as nothing exceptional about it is all as farasi nothing exceptional about it is all as far as i can see. but what is is that dominic cummings was a man who set the rules and the slogans but which we have all been with living for the past two months and that is why even a daily mail which is a huge supporter of him can see the

hypocrisy behind the way that he is acting by brick in the lockdown rules not just once acting by brick in the lockdown rules notjust once but by making another journey when he rules notjust once but by making anotherjourney when he got rules notjust once but by making another journey when he got there rules notjust once but by making anotherjourney when he got there by going on a 60 mile round trip to a beauty spots of the contest his eyesight. and which is frankly the idea you test your eyesight by making a 50 mile drive with a kid in the car i think there are not many people who will buy that as a reason thatis people who will buy that as a reason that is accessible and the promised oi’ that is accessible and the promised or has but made the judgement that dominic cummings is worth taking the hit for here to have him on the scene. but the daily mail gets a lot of black people on the left for its approach on all number of issues but the one thing it really does hate is hypocrisy and especially hypocrisy from an elite who are running the country. there's nothing they hate more than that and that is why you see it today teaming up with a paper let the daily mirror which would normally be his political rival.

let'sjump normally be his political rival. let's jump to the metro now is that is one we normally would see on the tube in the mornings but we don't really travel on the two that much any more. there is a pond here. stay elite as opposed to stay alert. did that catch your eye? yes, it did so that catch your eye? yes, it did so that stay elite is a pond on the government's on advice of the stay alert message and i suppose a reference to the idea that dominic cummings was in a very privileged position because of being able to rely on parents to help but have access to cottage to stay in safety which is hardly available to most of the public. i can very much empathize with the message behind this stay elite bad because the virus clearly has not weighed the same on all social groups despite the claims that we are all in this together. we are not all in this equally for sure. but i do think that this angle does ignore the fact that this angle does ignore the fact that despite the fact there is this privilege element to it, most of us

would do what we could to help our families. and it is not as if dominic cummings was going to durham for a jolly. i'm not sure if he has been quite darting down the a1 singing along to the radio in the car which has been somewhat the message that the media has depicted here. sorry i have not seen that anywhere. i have not seen that one. i have seen many people claiming that he was going to durham. in the papers? see in the papers? no, on twitter and... so social media. so we re twitter and... so social media. so were actually here reviewing the paper is not social media. but i think it does review the point about the daily badge which the metro has put on the front and it seems to imply that there is a level of privilege that dominic cummings has andl privilege that dominic cummings has and i think there is also a danger

that we are too unforgiving about this and ignore the humane element and the fact that it is a tough situation and especially if you are trying to run the country. and that in difficult situations we tend to do what we can to help our families. jack, i wonder if this is not a question of motivation. i have not seen question of motivation. i have not seen anywhere in any paper any dispute that he loved his family or wa nted dispute that he loved his family or wanted to care for his family but this was a question ofjudgement and not motivation. it is a completely human reaction. when he got caught red—handed he should have come out and said maybe i panicked and it seems like he was worried and was really sorry but he has not done that. but he is trying to do and government essay this was the rules. and i'm afraid the argument that he cared about his family and we would all do that but the whole point of lockdown and the whole point of the truly top public health measures is that you don't do that. you have to

think of the greater good and you have to stay put where you are and thatis have to stay put where you are and that is the absolute right message that is the absolute right message that dominic cummings and boris johnson all the ministers have been telling night after night after night and there is a really good reason for that. we have to stop the spread of the virus. or thousands more will die and it means that across this country thousands or tens of thousands or millions have been making this decision in this position and make difficult choices and made sacrifices precisely to think of the greater good estimates of the reason that so many people are so angry of the reason that so many people are so angry about this is it is quite clear that dominic cummings did not do that. he met a different decision and yes it is a human and understandable thing but he is not apologising for and is insisting he was in the dash in the rules and there is a bigger picture here that there is a bigger picture here that the government is about to embark on a whole new phase of this with a braina a whole new phase of this with a brain a test and trace programme and start getting text messages from government saying you have been there somebody who might have the virus so you must stay at home for seven or 14 days and people don't

adhere to that, we will never get out of this. that is the only way we are going to be able to live with this virus for the next few months or yea rs this virus for the next few months or years or however long it will take. so the habit message undermined in this way could have usually serious applications way beyond this one man. let's go to the times and get to that point. the front page again about dominic cummings, not breaking lockdown rules so it reasonably straightforward summation of what he said his point of view was there. let's pick up with what jack was saying. we'll dominic cummings‘s actions motivated by love of family and a devise —— desire to interpret rules in a what he wanted to protect his family, will that influence public behaviour from now that eve ryo ne public behaviour from now that everyone might decide to use that in a way that will actively get them travelling or potentially infecting people more. i think it will undermine public tolerance for the continued lockdown, of course it will. an example of someone in a position of power who seems to be

bending those rules although i do maintain that his trip to durham was in keeping with the government's on health guides which said in extreme situations you can see childcare but where i think it got think so terribly wrong is heat comes around that were disastrous and that it was not better known there were these exemptions available to the general public. that suggests a lack of communication from the government but in general i think it well in the same way that when professor neil ferguson was caught maintaining a love affair in the height of lockdown and including taking on some risk, all of this whittles away at public trust and not just some risk, all of this whittles away at public trust and notjust in politicians but in the continued state of lockdown which we are all being asked to make sacrifices. should we move abroad for a bit and look at the japan papers? a new phase in virus fight as emergency is lifted. the last time i checked,

japan had 851 —— and it lifted. the last time i checked, japan had 851—— and it has an old population and as a dense population and it is now moving into a new phase. it is an incredible story with the coronavirus injapan because nobody really seems to know quite how to figure they have done it. the country they are too not that the government has done a great job, there have been protests about what has he perceived to be government failings and a slow response to this. the popularity of the government has gone right down during this crisis. due to the way it is reacted and yet this country with the oldest population in the world and this usually dense cities and obviously pretty close to china where the outbreak first began has somehow managed to get away so far with fewer than 1000 deaths and of course a population much bigger than ours as well compare that to the uk where we may have already lost a0 or 50,000 people so it is a different

place completely. and now they