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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by James Forsy, Katie Bors and Fraser Nelson.

So last night the Prime Minister gave a statement to the nation.

This is what he had to say.

No one should be in any doubt.

There is a tidal wave of Omicron coming.

And I'm afraid it is now clear that two doses of vaccine are simply not enough

to give the level of protection we all need. But the good news is that our scientists are confident

that with a third dose, a booster dose, we can all bring our level of protection back up. Now, Katie, does this show that the

government is getting quite scared of Omicron but doesn't want to quite go through with further restrictions?

Yeah, I think the fact that the Prime Minister decided to do that address to the nation shows that

COVID is on his mind and also he wants to show that he

is taking firm action. But it's interesting in the sense that if you think back to that specific

format, so they're addressed to the nation, not a press conference, no question answer session.

It's tended to be when it's quite serious announcements. So things like

another lockdown, serious restrictions. And therefore, there was a sense after Boris Johnson made

that announcement, which is just, we're going to ramp up the booster program, which is significant ramping

up, but something they have been saying they were going to do for several weeks now. I think

people are a bit like, is that it? And I think it points to a few things. I think firstly,

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