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Coronavirus: Boris Johnson’s return to No 10

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🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

How has the government fared enforcing their mantra of: 'stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives'?


Guests: 

Caroline Wheeler, Deputy political editor of The Sunday Times.

Rosamund Urwin, Senior reporter at The Sunday Times.


Host: Manveen Rana.



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0:00.0

We all know the government mantra by now. It's been just over a month since Boris Johnson

0:07.7

first told us to stay at home, protect our NHS and save lives.

0:13.0

But as the Prime Minister returns to work, calling for patients with the lockdown,

0:18.0

how has the government fared so far?

0:22.0

One of the White horse sources I spoke to, the quote that I was given was that

0:27.1

countries to which we give foreign aid are now looking at the PPE we're using in

0:32.3

horror. You're using in horror.

0:33.0

You're listening to stories of our times

0:36.0

from the Times and the Sunday Times.

0:38.0

I'm Manveen Rana.

0:40.0

Today, as Boris Johnson returns to Downing Street, is the strategy to stay at home, protect

0:46.8

the NHS, save lives, working. I'm sorry I've been away from my desk for much longer than I would have liked.

1:00.4

As the Prime Minister returned to work this week, a similar reunion with the office was taking place at the Sunday Times.

1:07.0

Normally Saturday would be our busiest day. It would be humming. There would be

1:17.8

people shouting across the death to get certain bits of copy through.

1:21.5

Caroline Wheeler is the deputy political editor of the Sunday Times.

1:25.8

This weekend she found herself back in the office for the first time since lockdown began.

1:31.0

They'd be journalists conversing with each other, they'd be journalists on the telephone and it was just very quiet.

1:40.0

Yeah, I have to say it's a bit unsettling to be in a newsroom that's that quiet.

1:44.8

And that's Rosamond Irwin, senior reporter.

1:47.9

Although nearly everyone at the Times and the Sunday Times has been working from home since

1:51.6

the middle of March, it still takes a rotating skeleton

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