Inside Politics: Boris Johnson sends official to US to explain Brexit feud

No 10 is hoping a Northern Ireland Office mandarin will give the UK’s side of the story to the Americans, writes Adam Forrest

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We have Dune, Spider Man 3 and Godzilla vs Kong to get excited about when cinemas reopen. But Downing Street has dropped a trailer for the biggest blockbuster of them all – a documentary movie about the vaccine rollout (I hear there’s Oscars’ buzz building around A Beacon of Hope: The UK Vaccine Story). Boris Johnson may be hoping the rollout success overwhelms everything else this year, but the Brexit mess is becoming cinematically bad. The EU’s blockbuster legal action against UK moves to change the protocol is coming soon to a government near you.

Inside the bubble

Political editor Andrew Woodcock on what to look out for today: