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I've realized that people over 80 who are celebrities getting the vaccine is a bit like when

they announce the line-up for Strictly, there's a different celebrity every day of the week

and it just builds and builds and builds.

So on Tuesday, it was Peru Leith.

On Thursday, it was Speaker of the House of Lords, Lord Filer.

I will leave the wool sack and hand over to the excellent senior deputy speaker.

The reason is that I have been called in to receive a coronavirus vaccination.

There are perhaps some advantages to being 82 going on to 83 and it's not an appointment

I wish to miss.

It's the bank-cure excuse of 2020, isn't it?

Whatever appointment you've got that you need to wriggle out of, if you've got an appointment

for the vaccine, bingo.

I love it, but isn't it interesting how actually this is becoming a sort of very

public ritual, almost if you like, and I was talking to a minister about it today who

is casting ahead to maybe in the spring, a point when they were suggesting there'd be

a big awakening nationally when we all know someone who's had the vaccine, because actually

what's more powerful than someone you know saying, I've had it, and that's persuasion.

Well, it's confidence, herd immunity, and that.

Just that there is something else, there is another, you know, lift that eye, go to the

there is something, there is a future in that moment, but when do we get to that moment,

when everyone knows someone who's had it, had the vaccine, fascinating.

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