Newspaper headlines: 'The lost generation' and 'toppling the past'
Several of Wednesday's front pages focus on the government's announcement that plans for all primary classes in England to return before the summer break have been dropped. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he wants all children back to school by September, but the i newspaper reports he has been accused of being"asleep on the job".
The paper also pictures Mr Floyd's sisters Zsa Zsa and LaTonya Floyd during his funeral service in Houston, Texas, on Tuesday, alongside claims by the father of Stephen Lawrence that UK policing is still institutionally racist.The Daily Mail splashes with full-page image of the removal of a statue of noted slaveholder Robert Milligan from outside the Museum of London Docklands on Tuesday.
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