Just fine: Boris Johnson and “partygate”
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The Economist
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🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Police have served Britain’s prime minister, among others, with a fine for breaching the lockdown rules he instituted. He may yet again emerge unscathed, but Britain’s politics is damaged nonetheless. Florida’s natural environment has made it one of America’s fastest-growing states, yet environmental challenges represent its biggest long-term challenge. And Ukraine’s most famous rock star joins the war effort.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:07.1 | In New York, I'm John Fassman. |
| 0:09.6 | And in London, I'm Jason Paulman. |
| 0:11.8 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:18.6 | People flock to Florida for its beaches and warm weather, but its environmental challenges |
| 0:23.5 | are immense, including rising sea levels, intense hurricanes, algal blooms that kill marine |
| 0:29.0 | life, and both too much and too little water. |
| 0:35.2 | And Slava Vakertuk is Ukraine's best-known rock store, a singer of ballads, protest |
| 0:40.4 | songs, and ballads that have become protest songs. |
| 0:44.1 | But he's more than that, a trained physicist, a game show winner, a former parliamentarian, |
| 0:49.0 | and now a soldier. |
| 0:55.8 | First, Britain's most senior lawmaker is now officially a law breaker. |
| 1:07.9 | Prime Minister Boris Johnson was fine yesterday for breaching the very COVID lockdown rules |
| 1:12.6 | he put into force. |
| 1:14.1 | Today I've received a fixed penalty notice from the Metropolitan Police relating to an |
| 1:19.4 | event in Downey Street on the 19th of June 2020. |
| 1:23.3 | And let me say immediately that I've paid the fine and I once again offer a full apology |
| 1:31.7 | and in a spirit. |
| 1:32.7 | He's the first serving Prime Minister to be found in breach of the law. |
| 1:36.7 | The police are just making formal with the British public already new. |
| 1:40.7 | During lockdowns, senior government figures had been partying repeatedly while private |
| 1:44.9 | citizens were holed up at home. |
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