Britain's vaccine setback
Political Fix
Financial Times
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🗓️ 10 April 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Britain’s vaccination programme suffered a setback this week over the use of the AstraZeneca jab — the workhorse of the UK immunisation effort — among younger people. How will new guidance for under-30s affect the vaccine rollout and the bounce it has given Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the polls? Plus, what's behind Northern Ireland's most violent disturbances in recent years? Presented by George Parker with Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe, Clive Cookson and Peter Foster together with special guest Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's chief negotiator ahead of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Produced by Anna Dedhar and Josh de la Mare. The sound engineer was Breen Turner and the editor Liam Nolan. Review clips: Department of Health, UK news pool, BBC.
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| 0:00.0 | picture this static cars idling engines angry horns now picture you zooming |
| 0:12.0 | past it all light and breezy the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic book |
| 0:21.0 | your train journey via vantewescoast.co.uk a vantewescoast feel good travel |
| 0:33.0 | Britain's vaccine program suffered a setback this week when questions were raised |
| 0:37.4 | about the use of the Oxford AstraZeneca jab among younger people you know if |
| 0:42.4 | you sail a massive liner across the Atlantic then it's not really |
| 0:48.9 | reasonable that you aren't going to have to make at least one course |
| 0:52.6 | correction during that voyage. Welcome to Payne's politics and while |
| 0:59.0 | Seb's off finishing his book on the Labour Red Wall welcome to a one-off |
| 1:03.2 | edition of Parker's Politics with me George Parker you heard their Jonathan |
| 1:07.7 | Van Tam deputy chief medical officer deploying his best bedside manner to |
| 1:12.8 | reassure people that a change of guidance on the use of the AZ jab for the |
| 1:16.2 | under 30s was only a course correction not a serious setback we'll be |
| 1:21.3 | looking at what the decision by the UK's medical regulator means for the |
| 1:24.8 | vaccine effort with the FT's science editor Clive Cookson and my colleague in |
| 1:29.2 | the lobby Jasmine Cameron Schileshi and later we'll also be casting an eye |
| 1:36.1 | over the violent disturbances in Northern Ireland over the last week the worst |
| 1:40.1 | in recent years with Jonathan Powell Tony Blair's chief negotiator ahead of |
| 1:44.8 | the 1998 good Friday agreement and the FT's Peter Foster what's behind the |
| 1:50.3 | trouble so this week Britain's stellar vaccination program hit its first |
| 1:57.8 | significant hurdle when the country's regulators recommended that under 30s |
| 2:02.1 | the offered an alternative to the Oxford AstraZeneca jab due to evidence |
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