Another week, another wander through the still-wintery world of Westminster and beyond.

I'm Daniel Hewitt.

He...

Hello.

...is Sheehab Khan and of course ITV political editor Robert Pestin will be joining us on the phone.

And there's a lot to get through this week.

She-hab, for those listeners who've been self-isolating in a cave, remind us what's been happening out there.

Well, the big story has been coronavirus.

There have been new confirmed cases in the UK almost every single day.

We expect that to continue for basically the foreseeable future.

The government has an action plan in place on how to deal with it.

We got that this week.

They start with a contained phase, and today there have been a suggestion that they're moving towards phase two of their plan, which is a delay phase.

That's been the big story of the week.

Alongside that, there's been another big political story which focuses on the Home Secretary Preeti Patel.

The most senior civil servant in the home office resigned amid

bullying allegations against the Home Secretary. Since then there have been more allegations

about Patel's behaviour in different government departments and the Cabinet Office is now

investigating about whether or not she broke the ministerial code. But there are allegations,

the investigation

continues so two fairly big stories this week actually and that's without mentioning what's

been happening in the states because we've been keeping eye on what's happening in the democratic

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