Prince Andrew now has no choice – he must give a full statement to the FBI under oath

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PRINCE Andrew now has no choice. He must give a full statement to the FBI under oath.

The dramatic arrest of his friend Ghislaine Maxwell and her public ­evisceration by US investigators has increased the pressure on him tenfold.

After the arrest of his friend Ghislaine Maxwell, Prince Andrew has no choice but to speak to the FBI

This will not go away. The Maxwell trial may be the most explosive for decades and his relationship with her and Jeffrey Epstein will hang over it.

Andrew insists he did nothing wrong. Fine.

Let him make a full and frank statement to the FBI in a UK court . . .

Before this becomes an even greater international embarrassment.

Back to class

NO ONE thinks it will be easy for schools to return in September, but they must.

No one thinks the Government’s safeguards will be simple to implement or for kids to follow.

It won’t be easy for schools to return in September, but they must

No one can guarantee Covid will not infect a pupil, or spread.

The point of the new edicts and bubbles is to minimise that threat while ending the catastrophe of a generation deprived of teaching for months.

The negativity from some unions and the Tories’ usual critics has been depressing. Every reason is found why it can’t work — even SHOULDN’T work.

It can . . . if Heads, teachers, unions and parents cease their knee-jerk opposition and refocus on ending the damage done to our children every day they go untaught.

Jobs tragedy

OUR historic lows in youth unemployment will soon become grim new highs.

One million young people out of work is both a disaster for our economy and a ­terrible start to their adult lives.

Our historic lows in youth unemployment will soon become grim new highs

We like the IPPR think-tank’s idea of a £3billion programme to give everyone under 25 a job, apprenticeship or training . . . to pay six months’ wages for new recruits in certain sectors and hope their roles become permanent.

A good number of those thrown out of work by Covid-19 WILL be swiftly rehired by private firms, assuming the recovery is as fast as optimists believe.

But the Government must help the rest.

Travel fiasco

IT is hard to imagine how the Tory strategy on travel could have been more shambolic.

They told us not to go abroad. Then they ordered a quarantine long after it would have been useful, despite everyone knowing how unenforceable it was.

It is hard to imagine how the Tory strategy on travel could have been more shambolic

They suggested “air bridges”.

Now it’s almost all been binned. No air bridges were sorted. Quarantine was barely policed.

Suddenly we are free from next week to visit scores of countries, with no quarantine on our return. Which is fantastic.

But even fans of the Government would admit this fiasco has been needless, amateurish and damaging.

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