Coming up on the Peston podcast, two huge questions.

I mean, it feels like we've been months in lockdown.

It's only a week, but is it working in pressing down the rate of infection? And the second question is,

House of Representatives has voted to impeach Donald Trump. Where does that leave him? Where does

that leave America? All of this will be discussed with Sir Patrick Valence, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister,

possibly the most important individual when it comes to setting the rules that we all follow.

Kim Darrick, our former man in Washington, who resigned when some cables that he wrote that were frankly hardly very positive about Donald

Trump were leaked. He knows pretty much everything that's relevant about what's going on in America

and two education specialists, a former education secretary, Tory Nikki Morgan, and Labor's

school spokesperson West Streeting. I'll be talking to them about this extraordinary mess that the government's got itself into over free school meals and, you know, why on earth the government hasn't yet told us how on earth they are going to grade A levels and GCSEs. All of that and much more.

First up is Nikki Morgan.

Nikki, you must have heard the Prime Minister today.

He's desperate, isn't he, not to introduce yet more restrictions?

Yes, absolutely.

I think the Prime Minister just instinctively is not comfortable in effectively locking people up in their own homes.

And I think that's actually a good thing in the sense that I think Prime Minister should agonise about taking people's liberties away.

But of course, we're in the middle of a public health crisis.

And so that decision was very necessary.. I would like to say that I think

all the emphasis, and some of the psychologists said this, all the emphasis on people who are

breaking the rules is actually doing a massive disservice to the millions and millions of people

who are following the rules. Those who have seen their businesses devastated,

those who have shielded for months on end,

...