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You're listening to the New Statement Podcast with me, Alvaray and my colleagues, Anishika Aliin and Steven Bush.

On today's episode, we talk about vaccine passports and you ask us

will the delay of one year to the local elections benefit the Labour Party.

So we're having a big old public debate at the moment about whether pubs should require

a COVID status report, so either proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test

in order to admit people to their premises.

This has been sparked by a kind of off-the-cuff comment from Boris Johnson at the liaison committee

yesterday, we're recording on Thursday.

And the idea has sparked outrage from some conservative MPs, large parts of the press

and lots of pub owners.

Anish, what do you make of this whole thing?

Do you think that this is the right debate to be having?

And how likely do you think it actually is?

In a way, I think it's a really instructive debate, isn't it?

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