Inside Politics – Coronavirus special: Government faces anger over mass testing failure

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David Hockney is trying to cheer us up by painting flowers and trees bursting into colourful blossom. Currently in lockdown in Normandy, the great artist shared work from a series called Do Remember They Can’t Cancel the Spring. We could do with a reminder there will be better days ahead, after the UK saw its biggest daily rise in new Covid-19 cases. Boris Johnson’s government is still hoping – rather than promising – that within weeks the country will have moved to mass testing to help defeat the disease. I’m Adam Forrest, and welcome to The Independent’s daily Inside Politics briefing during the coronavirus crisis.

Inside the bubble

Our political editor Andrew Woodcock on what to look out for today: