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       1. NI Protocol stopping us tackling cost-of-living crisis, PM says

       Boris Johnson has warned that the Northern Ireland Protocol is holding Westminster back from helping with the cost-of-living crisis as he prepares to approve a law scrapping key parts of the agreement.

       The Prime Minister will travel to Belfast on Monday for talks with political leaders, and later this week is expected to sign off plans for domestic legislation giving the Government the right to suspend elements of the Brexit deal. Read the full story.

       2. Report on NHS reveals explosion in central bureaucracy

       NHS bureaucracy has doubled since the pandemic despite little change in the size of the frontline workforce, an explosive report reveals.

       The figures come as a record 6.4 million people - one in nine of the population - are on waiting lists, with record trolley waits in Accident & Emergency departments. Read the full story.

       3. Sweden’s bid to join Nato ‘shows Putin’s aggression doesn’t pay’

       Sweden on Sunday night joined Finland in announcing its intention to join Nato, demonstrating to Russia that “aggression does not pay”, the chief of the alliance has said.

       In a move that ends more than 200 years of military neutrality, Sweden’s governing Social Democratic Party announced that the country would submit an application to join. Read the full story.

       4. Queen gets standing ovation at star-studded Platinum Jubilee

       The Queen was honoured with a standing ovation as her Platinum Jubilee celebrations kicked off with a star-studded equestrian extravaganza that featured some of the world's leading performers.

       Hollywood actors Tom Cruise and Dame Helen Mirren – once again playing a Queen of England – led the cast of entertainers who appeared in the first major event marking the monarch's 70-year reign. Read the full story.

       5. US gunman singled out London's mayor

       A white supremacist teenager who killed 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York singled out London mayor Sadiq Khan as a target in a hate-filled manifesto shared online.

       Payton Gendron, 18, was charged with murder after shooting 10 people fatally and injuring three more, most of them black, in one of the deadliest racist attacks in recent US history. Read the full story.

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