Summary
Mark Carruthers is joined by John Sergeant, Polly Toynbee and Guto Harri to talk communicating with the public during a pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | we're together at last. |
| 0:02.0 | Oh, I dreamt of this moment. |
| 0:04.0 | This is communicating a clear message to the public. |
| 0:07.6 | Never easy for a government at the best of times |
| 0:09.7 | and probably never more challenging than during a global pandemic. |
| 0:13.6 | But that's what Downing Street is up against, |
| 0:16.3 | and that's what I'm discussing with my guests today. |
| 0:19.7 | If you could ask one question at the daily |
| 0:22.5 | number 10 news briefing, Gitto, what would it be? It'd have to be if we can house the homeless |
| 0:28.0 | and build mega hospitals in just weeks. Doesn't this show, hasn't this crisis shown that |
| 0:33.8 | politics has lacked the urgency and the sense of will and ambition over the last |
| 0:38.9 | decade or two. And the public will demand that we never go back to that sort of bland managerialism. |
| 0:45.4 | Interesting. Polly. Well, with the economy on its knees, bankruptcies, unemployment sector saw, |
| 0:51.5 | how can you possibly add to our woes by plugging on with the EU deal |
| 0:57.9 | when what everybody needs is time and calm after this crisis to seal a reasonable, good and |
| 1:04.4 | practicable deal between the UK and Europe? John? You've always stressed the importance of making |
| 1:10.2 | sure that the NHS was not overwhelmed. |
| 1:13.6 | Should you also have guaranteed that care homes would be protected in the same way? |
| 1:19.7 | That's a very interesting range of thoughts there from three guests with keen insights into how governments explain their actions. Gitto Harry is a former BBC |
| 1:28.9 | chief political correspondent and was of course Boris Johnson's director of communications when he was |
| 1:34.2 | mayor of London. Polly Toinby is a former BBC social affairs editor who now writes for the Guardian |
| 1:39.5 | and John Sargent is also a former BBC chief political correspondent who went on to become ITN's political editor. |
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