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

I'm Cindy Yu and this is the Sunday roundup.

This Wednesday will see the Chancellor's second budget of the year.

As always, the contents are hotly anticipated, but Rishi Sunak was reluctant to give much away this morning.

It has been reported that the new health security agency is sounding out local authorities

about implementing the government's plan B for trying to control the coronavirus over winter.

Andrew Ma asked Sunak if plan B meant a return to a scenario like the one experienced this time

last year. No one's in complete control of what's going to happen to the pandemic. And at the moment,

infections, I think, in Britain are higher than in the rest of Europe put together. Hospitalisations

are going up and sadly deaths are going up as well. It may well be that we do need more restrictions.

So can I ask you, is it time for Plan B? Well, the Prime Minister actually just said that we're

looking at the data all the time as you would expect us to, we're monitoring everything. But at the moment, the data does not suggest that we should be immediately moving to plan B. But of course we will keep an eye on that and the plans are ready. We outline them way beforehand to make sure people knew what possible options would be for the winter,

which we said would be challenging.

Those have been set out.

But again, I go back to what I said.

The best protection we have against all of those things is vaccines and the booster rollout.

So when people are asked, please do go and get your booster jab.

And we're making it easier, easier for example for parents to take

their kids to get jabs over half term at walk-in centres those are the types of things that we're

doing to help as well these things however can spiral very very fast indeed and I ask you again

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