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The government contemplated its promised Planning Bill, blamed for contributing to the astonishing victory for the Liberal Democrat Sarah Green in the Chesham and Amersham by-election. She had gained 21,517 votes to transform the former Conservative majority of 16,223 into one of 8,028. Labour did worse than in any by-election before, securing only 622 votes, 1.6 per cent of the total. John Bercow, the former Speaker, joined the Labour party. Clayton Dubilier & Rice, an American private equity company, offered to buy Morrisons, the supermarket chain, for £5.5 billion. White working-class pupils in England have been failed by decades of neglect, the Education Select Committee found in a report. A Unesco committee recommended Liverpool should lose its World Heritage status because new developments meant ‘irreversible loss’.
More than 99 per cent of new cases of Covid in England were of the Delta (formerly the Indian) variant. Scotland made it illegal to travel to or from Manchester and Salford. Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Manchester, who had not been told, wrote to Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland, to say it was ‘common courtesy’ to get in touch first. In the seven days to the beginning of the week, 62 people had died, bringing the total deaths (within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus) to 127,970. By the beginning of the week, 59.5 per cent of the adult population had received two doses of vaccine; 81.6 per cent, a first dose. Ben Chilwell and Mason Mount could not play for England in Euro 2020, having hugged their Chelsea team-mate Billy Gilmour, who was found to have Covid, but England still went through to the last 16. Scotland were knocked out. Wales went through too, but Holland said it would not let Welsh fans into the country for the team’s next match on 26 June.
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