Inside Politics | Boris Johnson set to break Tory hearts ahead of Valentine's Day

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Cue bright yellow titles, plinking harpsichord music and Bill Murray’s bemused face. The trailer for Wes Anderson’s new movie The French Dispatch has all the director’s familiar tropes: eccentric behaviour, stilted conversations and immaculately choreographed scenes. Today brings all the familiar tropes of a cabinet reshuffle: eccentric behaviour, stilted conversations and immaculately choreographed scenes. Boris Johnson, the Conservative party’s errant father figure (another Anderson trope) will decide the fate of a huge cast of Tory oddballs today – and face questions about his luxury winter holiday in the Caribbean. I’m Adam Forrest, and welcome to The Independent’s daily Inside Politics briefing.

Inside the bubble

Our political correspondent Ashley Cowburn on what to look out for today: