Civil Liberties & Covid

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

As the Coronavirus Act 2020 is extended - should emergency powers be under more scrutiny in Parliament? Those critical of the laws say Parliament should have more chance to debate and amend the rules, with some warning we risk our civil liberties. The Government argues it needs to react fast to reduce the Covid-19 infection rate. The team discuss this row boiling up in Westminster and Holyrood.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.4	Hello everyone
0:04.4	It's 18 minutes past two
0:06.3	On Thursday the 1st of October
0:07.9	I'm Lucy White
0:09.1	And you're listening to Podlitical
0:10.8	Bringing you the biggest stories out of Hollywoods and Westminster
0:13.9	It's been two whole years of Podlitical
0:17.1	And it sounded like this
0:18.5	Drama
0:19.0	Drama! Oh my
0:22.6	There's only been about ten breaking news alerts on my phone about that.
0:25.7	The Conservatives and Labour took a kicking in the EU elections.
0:29.5	Literally the last couple of weeks have been a game changer.
0:32.1	It's Theresa May. She resigned as Prime Minister.
0:34.5	She's going?
0:35.2	Yep, she's kicked off the race for the new Tory leader.
0:39.4	We're into dodgy bar chart season.
0:41.5	Sorry, we can't not mention the fact that today is admitted smoking opium.
0:45.4	You are technically the only white person on the mine.
0:48.6	Like, how have you felt this conversation has gone?
0:50.9	Has it been uncomfortable at times?
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