Inside Politics: Joe Biden brings up Northern Ireland with Boris Johnson
The president-elect raised his concerns about the Good Friday Agreement during a 25-minute call with the prime minister, writes Adam Forrest
Michael J Fox has reprised his role as Marty McFly in a new rap video. The Back to the Future star tells Lil Nas X to avoid the year from hell: “Whatever you do … don’t go to 2020!” With so much on the line right now, it would be pretty tempting to jump ahead to the end of January 2021 if you had access to a time-travelling DeLorean. Will Joe Biden have made it to the White House by then? Will Boris Johnson have agreed a Brexit deal and dodged border chaos? Will a Covid vaccine roll-out be successfully under way? The government thinks we may know much sooner if smooth, mass vaccination is possible – preparing the NHS to start the process from 1 December.
Inside the bubble
Our political commentator Andrew Grice on what to look out for today:
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