Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 18/07/21
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Become a Spectator subscriber today to access this podcast without adverts. Go to spectator.co.uk/adfree to find out more.
For more Spectator podcasts, go to spectator.co.uk/podcasts.
Contact us: podcast@spectator.co.uk
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Subscribe to The Spectator in our end of lockdown sale and get 10 weeks of the magazine, |
| 0:05.4 | in print and online, for the price of one. Not only that, but we'll also send you a bottle of |
| 0:10.5 | PIMS worth £25, absolutely free. That's 10 weeks of The Spectator and a bottle of PIMS |
| 0:16.3 | all for just £4.95. Hurry though, this offer ends on Monday 19th of July. |
| 0:22.1 | Go to spectator.k.k.org slash sale. |
| 0:29.4 | Hello and welcome to Coffeehouse Shots, the Spectator's daily politics podcast. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm Isabel Hardman, and this is the Sunday roundup. |
| 0:37.7 | Early this morning, it was revealed that both the Prime Minister and the Chancellor had been contacted by NHS test and trace. |
| 0:44.2 | However, instead of being forced to self-isolate, it was announced that both Johnson and Sunak were going to take part in a pilot scheme, |
| 0:50.3 | which meant they would be able to continue conducting essential government business |
| 0:54.6 | subject to their results from daily COVID tests. The housing secretary Robert Jenrick was |
| 1:00.5 | lined up to defend the principle of the scheme to Trevor Phillips. You can see what it looks like. |
| 1:05.7 | It looks like one rule for them and one rule for the rest of us. Well, as I say, this is a pilot that's actually being used by around 20 organisations, |
| 1:16.8 | so hundreds, if not thousands of public sector staff who work in those organisations |
| 1:23.6 | will be able to use this pilot. |
| 1:25.5 | We'll be learning from it, and of course if it's possible to roll it out more broadly because it's proven to be safe and successful, then we will do. |
| 1:33.3 | But for the rest of us who are not yet part of that pilot, the crucial advice is if you are contacted by NHS test and trace, to take that very seriously and to self-isolate because although it can |
| 1:45.5 | be frustrating, that has helped us to prevent thousands of cases. |
| 1:51.5 | A study from the end of last year showed that Test and Trace had prevented 600,000 cases |
| 1:58.6 | and 8,000 unnecessary deaths in just a three-month period leading up to the end of last year. |
| 2:04.8 | So it is an important tool in our armoury to tackle the virus right now. |
| 2:10.5 | However, within three hours of the original announcement, both Johnson and Sunak had backtracked |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Spectator, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Spectator and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.