The government has announced its latest round of coronavirus funding, with £60m going to museums, galleries and heritage sites across England.

Among the recipients are the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), Natural History Museum and British Library, The Imperial War Museums, Tate, National Portrait Gallery and the Royal Parks, according to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

Alas, thunderstorms and heavy rain could put a dampener on fans hoping to enjoy a barbecue while watching Wimbledon and the Euro 2020 quarter finals today.

Meanwhile Boris Johnson will be hoping to ride on a wave of patriotic enthusiasm over the performance of the England football team.

Yesterday Downing Street released a photograph of the prime minister standing on a giant St George’s flag ahead of tonight’s game against Ukraine in Rome.

It prompted criticism that Mr Johnson would not have done the same for Scotland or Wales had they managed to get to the quarter finals.

And Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell suggested the PM should have gone the whole hog and worn an England tracksuit.

German chancellor Angela Merkel also expressed optimism about the prospects of fully-vaccinated British holidaymakers travelling to Europe quarantine-free.

Mrs Merkel suggested restrictions could be eased soon for “double-jabbed” Brits travelling to Germany, as the Delta variant continues to spread outside the UK. The German leader had been behind a push to coordinate other EU countries to clamp down on travel from the UK.

But appearing beside Boris Johnson on a visit to the UK, she took a different tack and said her country could lift travel restrictions for those who have had two injections in the “foreseeable” future.

You might have thought the latest Brexit crisis was over, after the EU agreed to a three-month delay to restrictions on the sale of chilled meats from the UK to Northern Ireland.

Boris Johnson had claimed the “wurst is behind us” in the so-called “sausage war”

following his summit with German chancellor Angela Merkel, who said she was optimistic of solutions to trade difficulties.

However, Brexit minister Lord Frost has now issued another salvo in their ongoing attempt to get the EU to water down the protocol that he himself negotiated.

In an article in the Irish Times, Lord Frost and Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis said that the extension “addresses only a small part of the underlying problem”.

They called for a “new balance” to be reached and again accused the EU of taking an overly strict approach to the regulations – this time calling it “a theological approach frozen in time”.

They said: “The current process to resolve all these difficulties is not working and risks creating a series of rolling crises as we lurch from one deadline to another.

“In short, a seriously unbalanced situation is developing in the way the Protocol is operating – this risks economic harm in Northern Ireland and damage, in turn, to the essential balance within the Belfast Agreement itself.”

Good morning and welcome to the Independent’s live coverage of UK politics today.