Inside Politics: Ministers braced for backlash over exam results ‘mess’

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Four of the biggest pantomimes in the country have been forced to postpone their annual Christmas shows until 2021. Oh yes they have! Boris Johnson might have hoped to put the hissing and booing of the Westminster pantomime behind him for the summer. But there is a grand farce brewing over this year’s A-level results. Outrage over predicative results which saw thousands of Scottish pupils unfairly downgraded turned Nicola Sturgeon from the fairy godmother into the wicked queen. Is the PM about to stumble, stage left, into the exactly the same fiasco?

Inside the bubble

Senior political commentator John Rentoul on what to look out for today: