Enforcing lockdown as vaccines ramp up
Political Fix
Financial Times
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🗓️ 16 January 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The UK's battle against the new strain of Covid-19 has had mixed results this week – deaths continued to be high while infections started to fall. Are enough people following the rules? And is the vaccine rollout going to plan? Plus, we discuss the government's plans to move 22,000 civil servants out of Whitehall and whether it will help the prime minister's "levelling up" agenda. Presented by Sebastian Payne, with Jim Pickard, Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe, Andy Bounds and special guest Jill Rutter of the Institute for Government. Produced by Anna Dedhar and Josh de la Mare. The sound engineer was Breen Turner and the editor Liam Nolan. Review clips: Downing Street, Parliament, BBC
Further reading:
-Covid infection trends in England put scientists at odds
-UK government pressed to extend free school meals scheme
-UK set to step up coronavirus vaccinations
-England’s Covid infection rates ease as restrictions are reinforced
-Pledge to level-up UK questioned after northern transport budget cuts
-‘Treasury North’ leads march of civil servants out of London
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| 0:00.0 | The UK is making rapid progress in rolling out coronavirus vaccines, but concerns are life that too many people aren't strictly following the lockdown rules. |
| 0:11.0 | A minority of people are putting the health of the nation at risk by not |
| 0:15.8 | following the rules. The rules are clear and in terms of police enforcement we've |
| 0:21.0 | spoken at length as to the type of egregious breaches that we will |
| 0:24.8 | clamp down on so the rules are clear. |
| 0:28.8 | Welcome to Payne's politics. You are sent you inside insider guide to what's happening in British politics from the Financial Times, with me Sebastian Payne. |
| 0:39.0 | In this week's episode, we'll be looking at the latest COVID-19 developments. |
| 0:43.5 | The concerns by people following the rules, as you heard from Home Secretary Pritel there, |
| 0:48.2 | the efforts to roll out the vaccine and the start of another debate about when and how to lift lockdown. |
| 0:54.4 | Chief Political Correspondent Jim Picard and political correspondent Jasmine Cameron Shaletti |
| 0:58.8 | will explain. |
| 1:01.9 | And later, we'll be examining whether moving civil servants out of Whitehall is a good idea. |
| 1:07.0 | The Johnson government wants to post thousands of officials out by the end of the decade, |
| 1:11.0 | but where will they go and will it help with the leveling up agenda? |
| 1:15.1 | Our north of England correspondent Andy Bound will be discussing with special guest Jill Rutter |
| 1:19.6 | from the Institute of Government Think Time and herself a former civil servant. |
| 1:24.0 | Jim and Jasmine, welcome back. |
| 1:26.0 | Hello. |
| 1:27.0 | Hi. |
| 1:31.0 | So this is the third lockdown, and this is one where I think we've all been |
| 1:35.7 | university working from home that during the second lockdown and the various |
| 1:39.7 | restrictions we've been popping in and out of Parliament gym I think this is the first time where we've been popping in and out of Parliament Jim. I think this is the first time where we've been doing |
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