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Making Headlines: Labour concerned over Boris' plan to open borders; plus X factor takes a break

Stories making headlines this morning: -Boris Johnson risks allowing a new Covid variant to “run rampant” through the country by further easing restrictions for EU and US travellers, Labour has claimed.-The Chancellor should use his visit to Scotland to apologise for “prematurely withdrawing furlough and risking thousands of unnecessary redundancies”, the SNP has demanded.-ITV has said there are "no current plans" for another series of The X Factor.The statement came following reports in The Sun that creator Simon Cowell has axed the programme after 17 years.