Summary
Is the lifting of lockdown irreversible? Is the alternative too politically painful? The team discusses this and more with BBC Scotland health correspondent Lisa Summers. With further Covid legislation being rushed through Holyrood ahead of the parliament going into recess, and the Delta variant still threatening the progress the UK has made so far, what does it mean for our freedoms going forward?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.5 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.5 | that brings you an inside look of the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:19.7 | It is 25 past 2 on Thursday the 17th of June. I'm Phil Simmer, a reporter based at the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. It is 25 past two on Thursday |
| 0:21.6 | the 17th of June. I'm Phil Simmer, a reporter based at the Scottish Parliament and today I am |
| 0:25.9 | joined by. I'm Lindsay Buse, a political correspondent based at the Scottish Parliament. I'm |
| 0:31.3 | Rajneep Sandhu, a Westminster correspondent based in Westminster, but currently at home. |
| 0:36.3 | And I'm Lisa Summers, BBC's Glunt's Health Correspondent. |
| 0:39.0 | Hey, Lisa, welcome back. |
| 0:40.5 | It's nice to be here. I can't believe you've had me back so soon. |
| 0:44.0 | Well, I don't know. Is it a good thing? |
| 0:45.9 | Well, who knows? As opposed it's going to be things are happening. |
| 0:48.4 | It's definitely a good thing. |
| 0:50.7 | We bring you back when things are happening with the pandemic so that's that rarely feels like good news |
| 0:55.8 | doesn't it well after all the the optimism I had last time I mean maybe we should taper it a little bit |
| 1:00.6 | with what's going on yeah well I guess it was kind of widely predicted I guess in a way that the end |
| 1:06.5 | of COVID restrictions has been pushed back it's it's official in England and it's looking |
| 1:10.6 | pretty inevitable in Scotland too Lisa am I right in saying we've got some of the highest case rates in |
| 1:15.7 | Europe right now? Yes, that actually is true. I mean, they will fluctuate a bit, but this is the |
| 1:21.1 | kind of weekly case rate and Scotland does have the highest weekly case rates in Europe. If you look at |
| 1:26.2 | the kind of trajectory at the moment, |
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