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London Calling.

It seems that the spread is now being driven by the new variant of the virus which we spoke about earlier this week and learned about earlier this week.

There's no evidence that it causes more severe illness or higher mortality,

but it does appear to be passed on significantly more easily.

It may be up to 70% more transmissible.

Welcome to London calling with me James Dellingpole and my very good friend Mr Toby

young Toby ha ha you're in you're in tier four for Christmas.

Yes.

I mean were you expecting tier four?

So that means what you can't do anything?

I mean the reindeer gets slaughtered on your

doorstep father Christmas gets electrocuted when he tries to climb down the

chimney the bad guys have won they haven't they, basically?

They've won. I mean, I wasn't even expecting to be in tier three, let alone tier four.

I mean, I, you know, perhaps naively understood that Boris had promised the COVID recovery group and the

part of the

I could let stop you there Boris had promised there's a clue there's a clue in that phrase that leads to disappointment. See if you can guess what it is.

Yeah, well, it's difficult to be disappointed by Boris these days, but I think he may have just about pulled it off.

But I understood that he promised the COVID Recovery Group, as well as the Parliamentary Party, more generally,

that first of all there would be an extensive review of which area was in which tier on

December 16th with a view to taking some places which were in tier 3 down into tier 2 and places in tier 2 down into

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