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🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode of the New Statesman podcast, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea discuss the first day of Lockdown 2.0 and the announcement that the furlough scheme will be extended into 2021. Then, for You Ask Us, they're joined by US Editor Emily Tamkin to probe her on what on earth is happening her side of the Atlantic.


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0:00.0

May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:08.0

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

0:31.0

There are around 48,000 new cases of lung cancer every year in the UK, but it doesn't affect everyone equally. Incident rates are far higher in deprived areas and there's too often a post-code lottery

0:36.1

when it comes to that all-important early diagnosis.

0:40.0

The New Statesman Podcast is sponsored by MSD, a research intensive global bio pharmaceutical company

0:46.2

active in several key areas of global health, including immunization and oncology.

0:51.8

They've recorded a special sponsored episode with the New Statesman

0:54.9

podcast in which thought leaders explore how the UK can and must tackle health

0:59.8

inequalities to deliver early diagnosis and treatment.

1:04.0

Listen to the episode now.

1:05.6

Look for lung cancer inequalities in the New Statesman podcast feed. And On this episode of the New Statesman podcast, Alva and I discuss the new lockdown in England

1:27.8

and how different it is from last time round, and Rishi Sunax, youturn again on the furlow scheme.

1:34.0

Then our US editor Emily Tamkin joins us to tell us what's happening with the US presidential election.

1:40.0

Stephen is on holiday for this fraught period. Well chosen Stephen.

1:43.6

So we're in the first day of the month-long new lockdown in England. What's different about this lockdown

1:57.1

to last time round, Elva?

1:59.1

Good question. I suppose on a technical level it is not as restricted as the first one

2:07.0

notably because schools are open and I can't remember the exact wording of the

2:11.9

original guidance in March but more people can go to work.

2:16.0

And we're also not limited in how much exercise we take during the day,

2:20.0

but I suppose the kind of the more important aspect of your question which is I imagine what you're getting at is that the public

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