Inside Politics: Dominic Cummings’ No 10 ‘weirdo’ says goodbye

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It must be nice to play around with large amounts of taxpayers’ money. The royal family’s Instagram account has given us a glimpse of the painstaking operation to take apart Queen Victoria’s “fragile” wallpaper “piece by piece” as part of a £369m effort to freshen up stuffy old Buckingham Palace. Boris Johnson is expected to meet his young chancellor Rishi Sunak to the country retreat Chevening House today. Together the pair will conduct a painstaking operation to take apart the fragile budget – piece by piece – in an attempt to freshen up the stuffy old spending plan left behind by Sajid Javid. I’m Adam Forrest, and welcome to The Independent’s daily Inside Politics briefing.

Inside the bubble

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