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Coffee House Shots

Boris Johnson sets out the new normal on vaccines

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Politics, Government, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

At PMQs today, Boris Johnson said the public would need to 'get used to the idea of vaccinating and then revaccinating in the autumn, as we come to face these new variants.' The government's contract with the Wrexham factory that helps make the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has been extended to August 2022 at the earliest, so will repeat inoculations be the way forward? Katy Balls speaks to Isabel Hardman and James Forsyth. 

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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

0:42.3

I'm Isabel Hardman and I'm joined by James Forsyth and Katie Balls.

0:46.3

Well, we've just come out of Prime Minister's questions, which wasn't the most

0:50.5

revelatory session that we've ever had, James. Did we learn anything? I thought that both

0:56.6

Kirstarmer and Boris Johnson appeared to be enjoying it slightly more than usual. Kirstearn was very

1:00.9

pleased with this line about how he wasn't taking any lectures from someone who proposed Donald Trump

1:05.2

for the Nobel Peace Prize and given Dominic Cummings a pay rise. And Boris Johnson was relish bringing up Charlie Folkman's rather unfortunate comments about how the COVID crisis was a gift that kept on giving.

1:20.9

Boris Johnson also indulged in his other favourite activity of the moment, which is winding up the Scottish National Party.

1:28.4

They call them the Scottish Nationalist Party.

1:30.5

Katie, there was one line about vaccinations that was interesting, and I think moved things on

1:35.5

a little bit. What was that?

1:37.1

We had the Prime Minister suggesting something I think has been reported fairly widely,

1:42.1

but almost confirmation that we are heading to a point where

1:44.9

there will be a need to vaccinate people again, potentially in the autumn, and this is just

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