Inside Politics: London headed for lockdown, as Boris Johnson shuts schools

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We’ll meet again. Don’t know where, don’t know when, and possibly at the safe distance of six metres – but I know we’ll meet again some sunny day. Britain’s songbird Dame Vera Lynn, 102-years-old and still fighting fit, has called on the nation to “pull together” and “weather the storm” of the coronavirus outbreak. With Glastonbury and Eurovision both cancelled, perhaps it’s time for Boris Johnson to start playing Dame Vera’s old records over the airwaves. As he wages war on the virus, the PM is not ruling out a complete lockdown in London after schools close across the land. I’m Adam Forrest, and welcome to The Independent’s Inside Politics newsletter.

Inside the bubble

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