Inside Politics: Grant Shapps flies home to get started on his quarantine

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BBC medical drama Holby City has resumed filming with a special episode which sees the hospital gripped by the pandemic. It would be hard for any dramatist to capture the stranger-than-fiction stuff going on in the aftermath of the outbreak. An English cat has become the first pet in the country to catch the coronavirus. Investors are stockpiling gold, as forecasters predict the economy will be in the doldrums for years. And transport secretary Grant Shapps is flying home early from Spain to get started on the quarantine he was supposed to be in charge of organising for the rest of the country.

Inside the bubble

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