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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots for Spectator's daily politics podcast. I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and James Fulcife. So is there a better story to be told than the current one on the UK's vaccination plan? Today's Times reports Whitehall sources predicting all over 50s could be vaccinated by the end of March.

This comes after figures accidentally published by the Scottish government this week,

suggested the UK would have capacity for 3.8 million jabs next week and a 5.4 million a week by the end of February.

James, what's going on here? Is it the case that we actually have some very good news on vaccines?

And even though the government has been saying that we're on track, that it's even better?

The document put up and then withdrawn by the Scottish government suggests that next week the UK to be vaccinated,

almost as many people as it is vaccinated so far

in the whole programme. It suggests a very dramatic ramping up. And I think it does suggest that maybe

the situational vaccines is better than the government wishes to say. There's been a lot of talk about

how many doses there are in the country that suggest a rather large number of doses that are in the

country. I think the government's concern is that,

if you read the very good story in the Scottish edition of the Daily Telegraph today,

how Boris Johnson's private secretary rang Nicola Surgent's private secretary to basically say,

can you get this document down? And I think the government's concern is that it doesn't help the

UK's negotiations with the pharmaceutical companies who are making these vaccines

to reveal how much the UK has because other countries will then start saying, well, hang on a second,

we want some of that. And so I think that is attention. But I think the interesting question is

whether this ramp up in the vaccine program can happen. I mean, we've all got very used to

the government saying that some dramatically good thing

is going to change the game and then it not being quite as good as first advertised. So I think

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