Inside Politics: Coronavirus special: Matt Hancock says contact-tracing app will save lives

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It is what it is. Love Island 2020 has been mugged off by ITV producers – pushed back until next year because of the “impossibility” in safeguarding contestants who had been hoping to spend the summer on the Balearic isle of Majorca. It’s the Isle of Wight that’s feeling the love right now. All eyes are a new contact-tracing app launched there today, which might just help safeguard us all from the future spread of the coronavirus by ushering in an extensive track and trace programme. I’m Adam Forrest, and welcome to The Independent’s daily Inside Politics briefing during the coronavirus crisis.

Inside the bubble

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