Inside Politics – Coronavirus special: Boris Johnson faces Tory fury after backing Dominic Cummings

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Historians are asking people to keep all their electronic communications to help document these momentous times. So your next Zoom meeting could end up in a book about the lockdown. Retired chemistry teacher Robin Lees may play a key role in the political history of the period. His computer search history proved he’d looked up Dominic Cummings’ number plate after spotting the PM’s adviser in Durham last month. Boris Johnson is standing by his man for now – but he faces widespread outrage and mounting pressure from Tory backbenchers for the itinerant No 10 strategist to go. I’m Adam Forrest, and welcome to The Independent’s daily Inside Politics briefing during the coronavirus crisis.

Inside the bubble

Our Whitehall editor Kate Devlin on what to look out for today: