Inside Politics: Priti Patel wants Navy to block migrant boats

Sign up here to receive this daily briefing in your email inbox every morning

It’s not really the time for companies to come up with fancy new roles and ridiculous job titles – what with a huge wave of redundancies on the horizon. But the government has managed to come up with a fancy new senior role and ridiculous job title to boot. An ex-marine commando has officially been put in charge of stopping migrants crossing from France in small boats, becoming – wait for it – the UK’s Clandestine Channel Threat Commander. We’ll have to wait and see if the hastily made-up position actually results in some kind of plan.

Inside the bubble

Our deputy political editor Rob Merrick on what to look out for today: