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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Katie Balls, and I'm joined by James Fisive and Isabel Hardman.

Well, it's a day after so-called Freedom Day.

And yesterday on Monday, we heard from the Prime Minister dialing in from Chequers where he's in self-isolation.

And Isabel's fair to say that once again the Prime Minister was striking a very

cautious tone and also already announcing some changes to how life looks like we've allegedly

don't have many legal restrictions. Yes, it's becoming clearer just how constricted this freedom

that we've all been given actually is because one of the key things and

something that he clearly wanted to put a real emphasis on at the press conference yesterday

was a threat to nightclubs that if they don't voluntarily use the COVID pass, then the government

will make them use the COVID pass from September, which is when over 18s

will have all had a chance to be double jabbed. And the hospitality industry has reacted

furiously to this, saying that it's, you know, it's on its knees at the moment anywhere. It's

desperately trying to recover from the past year and a bit.

And obviously nightclubs have been closed for a very, very long time in this pandemic.

So they've been particularly badly hit by this and that the assurances they had been given

was that it would be up to them how they policed this rather than actually they're open

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