This week on the Best in podcast, we are talking about how many Hong Kong Chinese will take up the Foreign Secretary's offer to come to the UK.

We're also looking at whether the government locked down Lester early enough.

And that's the question that's on all our minds, whether or not there is going to be a second wave.

And we might see another national lockdown.

Fascinating cast of guests.

Got the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab. We've got Labor's Health spokesman Jonathan Ashworth.

And we've got the scientist who actually advises the government on how to design policies

to prevent the spread of viruses like coronavirus.

Professor John Edmonds.

Also with me, the former advisor, former chief of staff,

to Tony Blair, Jonathan Powell,

and somebody who was a member of Boris Johnson's government

till comparatively recently,

Baroness Morgan, Nikki Morgan.

I began by asking the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on the day that he has confirmed that up to three million Chinese will have the right to come and live here.

How many he actually expects to live and work here,

whether they've modeled the prospect of that?

Good evening, Rob.

Yes, we, of course, would model this,

and it's difficult to give precise forecasts,

but I think it's fair to assume that only a proportion of those that are offered the new

status that we've set out in the House of Commons today would take it up.

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