Held in hotels and is Starmer stalling?
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Hotel quarantine will finally be introduced to the UK next week, but can the logistics work? Will it stop new variants of the virus spreading - and are enough countries going to be included? Plus, we discuss whether Sir Keir Starmer is stalling as Labour leader and whether he is critical enough of the government's coronavirus policies. Presented by Sebastian Payne, with Jim Pickard, Alice Hancock, Robert Shrimsley and special guest Sienna Rodgers, editor of LabourList. Produced by Anna Dedhar and Josh de la Mare. The sound engineer was Louise Burton and the editor Aimee Keane.
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Further reading:
-UK Covid border measures under increasing strain ahead of rollout
-Travel bosses fear summer season at risk after UK warns on holidays
-Britain wakes up to the power of border controls
-Should Britons abandon hope of a summer holiday?
-Labour’s Starmer has no quick fix; Johnson stole his story
-Labour party looks to Biden for inspiration
-Labour attacks £1bn cuts to flagship green homes scheme
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| 0:00.0 | Will Britons be allowed to holiday abroad this year, whether they can or not? |
| 0:04.8 | Hotel Quarantine is being introduced next week to protect the UK from new variants. |
| 0:10.4 | Until you know the root out of lockdown, which we can't know until we have more data, |
| 0:15.6 | more information on vaccines as well, please don't go ahead and book holidays for something which, |
| 0:20.6 | at this stage, is illegal to actually go and do, whether it's here or abroad. |
| 0:25.5 | Welcome to Payne's Politics, your essential insider guide to what's happening in British politics |
| 0:31.2 | from the Financial Times, with me Sebastian Payne. In this episode, we'll be discussing |
| 0:36.8 | the government's hotel quarantine plans, as mentioned by the Transport Secretary Grant Chaps at |
| 0:41.7 | the top and why it is proving so complex and how this plays into the debate about holidays. |
| 0:47.7 | Chief Political Correspondent Jim Picard and Leisure Industries reporter Alex Hancock will explain |
| 0:52.8 | all. Later on, we'll be asking whether Kia Starmer's leadership is stalling, |
| 0:57.6 | just as he reaches the one-year anniversary of his leadership. Should Labour be further ahead |
| 1:02.5 | in the polls? Is his strategy right and does he face a challenge from the left? Chief Political |
| 1:08.0 | Correspondent Robert Schrimsley and special guest Sienna Rogers from the Labourless website will discuss. |
| 1:13.7 | Jim Manalis, welcome back to the pod. Good morning. Hi Seb. Well, with all this talk about |
| 1:19.0 | holidays and the sun getting a bit brighter and the days a bit longer, everyone's turning their |
| 1:23.8 | minds towards the spring and the summer and that opportunity to leave our homes and get a bit of |
| 1:28.3 | fresh air somewhere different. So Jim, I'm going to ask you first, what are your dreams for a |
| 1:32.7 | holiday this year if it happens at all? The dreams would be to be in the moldies or somewhere. |
| 1:37.9 | The reality is I've booked a lighthouse overlooking the sea and it's in England and that's in August. |
| 1:44.0 | It's going to be lovely. That sounds very nice. I've been watching a lot of |
| 1:47.3 | Rick Stein's Cornwall. It's a 15-part series, clearly filmed by the BBC to fill everyone's |
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