The Tories are at war again over taxes and whether they will have to be raised this autumn to pay for the economic damage caused by coronavirus.

Welcome to Payne's politics, your essential insider guide to what's happening in British politics from the Financial Times, with me Sebastian Payne.

In this episode, I'll be discussing why Ritchie Sunak and Boris Johnson

tried to calm Conservative fears over the economic turbulence ahead with political editor George

Parker and economics editor Chris Giles.

And later I'll be discussing how aid, trade and diplomacy can work together in the new

Foreign Commonwealth and Development Department

with political columnist Robert Shrimsley and special guest Bronwyn Maddox,

who's director of the Institute for Government Think Tank.

George and Chris, welcome back.

Hi there, Seth.

So before we talk about the economy, we've had some intriguing Whitehorn news this week.

First of all, Simon Case was appointed out of nowhere to be the new

Cabinet Secretary next and exclusive by George, but whereas he's going to be

staying in 10 Downing Street a lot of other people are moving out. We've

discovered that Dominic Cummings, who's the Prime Minister Chief

Advisor, is setting up a new NASA style control room in 70 Whitehall. There's been some

excellent illustrations of this George, giving you the idea of Bond style bunkers with screens, round-to-the-top. I was your NASA style control center at home.

Well, I say the illustrations have made it look sort of quite space age, but in the end I think most

companies would recognize Dom's command center is just something where you

organize people according to their speciality in middle sections is not exactly

rocket science. But as to my own command centre said, I'm sitting in my front room at the moment. I'm surrounded by screens which give me

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