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All Out Politics

Covid roadmaps and the Budget tax debate

All Out Politics

Sky News

News Commentary, Politics, News, Government

4.2156 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Adam Boulton and guests discuss the different approaches to easing lockdown in England and Scotland and whether power should come from the centre or be fairly dispersed in Edinburgh and London.
Also this week, have the old left versus right battles over tax now disappeared as we prepare for the Chancellor's Budget next week?
Joining Adam for political discussion and analysis are Professor of Political Science at the University of Southampton - and Sky News election analyst - Dr Will Jennings; Columnist at The National Shona Craven and Sky's deputy political editor Sam Coates

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Hello, welcome to the All-Out Politics Podcast. I'm Adam Bolton. And joining me this week are the

0:50.2

Professor of Political Science at the University of Southampton and Sky News Election Analyst Dr Will Jennings columnist at the National, the Scottish newspaper, Shona Craven,

1:00.8

and Sky's Deputy Political Editor Sam Cote.

1:03.5

This week we're going to ask really, where should power lie?

1:06.9

Where does it lie at the centre in Westminster or dispersed more fairly across the UK?

1:14.8

And where does that leave the very different approaches, apparently being taken towards COVID and lifting the lockdown in Edinburgh and Westminster?

1:24.1

Also going to see really how the current state of the nation might feed into the decisions on tax.

1:30.2

Whatever happened to the old left-right battle on tax and spend as Rishi Sunak prepares his budget,

1:37.9

apparently with the support of Sakea Stama.

1:51.4

Well, let's begin with the roadmaps out of COVID lockdown and hear from the Prime Minister and the First Minister.

1:55.4

The threat remains substantial.

1:57.4

We cannot escape the fact that lifting lockdown will result in more cases,

2:04.7

more hospitalisations and sadly more deaths. And this would happen whenever lockdown is lifted.

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