Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, has urged the government to speed up vaccine supplies to his region to allow it to run a “surge vaccination programme”. (See 2.58pm.) He spoke after the government announced that surge testing will be extended in Greater Manchester and Lancashire in response to the rise in Covid cases in those areas. The government news release with full details of the measures is here. The number of new Covid cases in the UK in the past week is now 60% up on the total for the previous week, the latest figures on the government’s dashboard show. (See 4.24pm.) Downing Street has accused the EU of taking a “purist approach” to implementing the Northern Ireland protocol. (See 1.53pm.) The briefing came as ministers were warned that tariffs and quotas could be slapped on some products by the EU if Boris Johnson overrides the Brexit deal in a trade dispute over the sale of sausages. Unions representing teachers and other school staff are calling on the government to reinstate masks in classrooms in England in response to a growing number of Covid outbreaks, particularly among secondary pupils. Conservative backbencher Steve Baker has urged the government to press ahead with lifting England’s remaining Covid restrictions on 21 June despite a sharp rise in cases. Edwin Poots, the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) leader, has named his party colleague Paul Givan as the next first minister of Northern Ireland. Ministers are acting like some African states who defy democracy by denying MPs the chance to vote on overseas aid cuts, former minister Andrew Mitchell has said. Dominic Cummings has failed to provide written evidence that he had promised to provide to a parliamentary inquiry to substantiate his allegations that senior cabinet ministers mishandled the coronavirus pandemic. Plans to allow an NHS system to extract patient data from doctors’ surgeries in England have been delayed amid concerns around privacy. That’s all from me for today. But our coronavirus coverage continues on our global live blog. It’s here.