Saturday morning UK news briefing: Today's top headlines from The Telegraph

1. Boris Johnson: Indian variant poses real risk of disruption to our plans

Boris Johnson on Friday warned that the Indian variant could “seriously disrupt” plans to lift the final Covid restrictions on June 21.

The Prime Minister said he must “level with” the public about the threat posed by the new strain and said “hard choices” about the route out of lockdown could lie ahead. Read the full story.

2. Prince Harry’s broadside leaves senior royals bemused over his ‘woeful lack of compassion'

The Duke of Sussex’s broadside about the Prince of Wales has left senior royals bemused over his “woeful lack of compassion” for his own family, The Telegraph understands.

All three royal households were seemingly left reeling on Friday by the Duke’s suggestion that he had been failed not only by his own father but through association, by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh too. Read the full story.

3. Oxford University decolonising inch by inch, with imperial measurements the next target

Oxford University has suggested imperial measurements should be "decolonised" over links to the British Empire.

The mile, inch, yard, pound and ounce are “tied deeply to the idea of the Empire” and their presence in the curriculum could change, decolonising plans by Oxford’s maths, physics and life sciences faculty suggest. Read the full story.

4. Offer of face-to-face appointments ‘cannot happen overnight’, GPs warn patients

GPs have rejected NHS instructions to immediately offer every patient a face-to-face appointment, warning the move “cannot happen overnight”.

The British Medical Association (BMA) on Friday called on health chiefs to show “honesty” with the public about longer waiting times due to the effects of social distancing on patient flow in surgeries. Read the full story.

5. Edwin Poots vows to 'undermine' Northern Ireland protocol after being elected DUP leader

The Democratic Unionist Party’s has elected a new leader who vowed to “systematically undermine and strip away all aspects” of the Northern Ireland protocol.

Edwin Poots, the Stormont Agriculture Minister, beat the DUP’s Westminster leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson by just 19 votes to 17 at Friday’s election. Read the full story.

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