A further relaxation of Covid controls across Scotland is likely to be pushed back by three weeks, Nicola Sturgeon has said, meaning that the next significant easing could coincide with England on 19 July after Boris Johnson announced a four-week delay on Monday. Every adult in England will be able to book their first Covid-19 vaccination from the end of this week, the head of the NHS has disclosed. Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, has suggested Britain will have to learn to live with Covid deaths at a certain level. (See 9.27am.) The Metropolitan police have been described as “institutionally corrupt” and its commissioner, Cressida Dick, personally censured for obstruction by an independent inquiry set up to review the murder of the private detective Daniel Morgan. The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has called for more information about protections for UK farmers in a new trade deal with Australia, as it emerged that some tariff-free protection periods will expire in as little as five years. Gove has announced plans to make more civil servant posts open to external talent. All senior civil service jobs will advertised externally and new, flexible entry routes to the civil service will be developed. Gove announced the moves as part of a “Declaration on Government Reform” (pdf). Unveiling it in a speech, he said: On some past occasions, it has been regrettable that reform overall was seen as something driven by politicians, against the mulish opposition of bureaucrats. It is a missed opportunity when reform is felt as something done by ministers to civil servants, rather than with them. And greater openness in the deployment of outside talent to drive progress should never be understood as somehow a replacement for or usurpation of the vital role civil servants play. The declaration published today is the fruit of discussion between ministers and officials. That is why when this morning cabinet ministers and permanent secretaries met together – for the first time – to approve the declaration, there was a unity of resolve that we need to see these changes through. The deceit employed by Martin Bashir to land his sensational 1995 Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales has been branded “one of the biggest crimes in the history of broadcasting” by John Birt, the BBC’s director general at the time. The home secretary and Downing Street have condemned an incident in which a senior BBC journalist was angrily confronted and pursued by anti-lockdown protesters as “appalling and distressing”. That’s all from me for today. But our coronavirus coverage continues on our global live blog. It’s here.