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Hi, I'm Anouche.

I'm Alfa.

And I'm Steven.

And on today's New Statement Podcast, we discuss the unlocking and the Indian variant

and you ask us what were the new dividing lines in politics be?

So we're recording on a day when lots of the lockdown restrictions are easing

in England, pubs, cafes and restaurants are opening indoors

and you can also start holiday flights abroad again to a small number of countries.

But it is colliding with an uptick in cases of the Indian variant.

And it's interesting that a number of ministers, including the Prime Minister,

are warning people to be incredibly cautious while they are unlocking and sticking to their roadmap.

Steven, you wrote about this this morning and it seems from what you were writing about

that they are sort of pinning their concern on the people who are eligible for vaccination

but haven't had the vaccine yet, rather than maybe some of the mistakes

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