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🗓️ 13 March 2022
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0:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by Canacord Genuity Wealth Management, award-winning wealth managers who go above and beyond to support and guide you. |
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0:20.2 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shops, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. |
0:25.0 | I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup. |
0:28.3 | With Vladimir Putin continuing to wreck devastation in Ukraine, the United Nations has estimated that 2.6 million people have fled the country. |
0:44.3 | The UK government has devised a Homes for Ukraine scheme aimed at resettling refugees with obliging citizens. Michael Gove, the Minister responsible for the scheme, joined Sophie Rayworth to explain more about the details. |
0:50.3 | Tomorrow we'll be launching a portal, a website which will allow anyone who wants to help to register their interest. |
0:56.8 | And then from Friday, we will have a process set up whereby we can match named individuals, families from Ukraine, with individuals here. |
1:06.3 | And I would hope that within a week there will be people who can benefit from that scheme. |
1:09.7 | How do they find them, though? |
1:10.7 | I mean, you're relying on people having to find the Ukrainian refugees in order to take them into their homes. |
1:14.6 | It's not that easy, is it? |
1:16.6 | It's the fastest way in which we can get people out of danger and into the United Kingdom. |
1:20.6 | And it is the case already that whether it's through social media platforms |
1:25.6 | or whether it's through charities and civil society, |
1:28.5 | those connections are being made. We know that we have in this country, according to the most |
1:35.1 | recent test of public opinion, hundreds of thousands of people potentially who are willing to take |
1:40.1 | Ukrainians into their home, and that's the fastest way we know of providing people with support. |
1:44.9 | That's a big commitment though, isn't it? Because it's minimum six months. I mean, would you take |
1:48.3 | somebody in? Yes. I'm exploring what I can do. I know that there are others who have. Again, |
1:53.7 | without going into my personal circumstances, there are a couple of things I'd need to sort out. But yes. |
1:58.6 | However, it is a big commitment. And that's why we're providing |
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