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🗓️ 23 September 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | On this week's Pest and podcast, we're asking the big questions. |
0:15.0 | Has the Prime Minister done enough to suppress the virus? |
0:19.0 | Will the Prime Minister do enough to protect our jobs? As the economic recovery |
0:23.0 | we've been hoping for seems to be slower as a result of the virus than we would have hoped. |
0:29.7 | Joining me is Labour's leader, Sequeir Stama, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, one of the most |
0:36.8 | influential figures in this government, Michael Gove, and the always controversial boss of Ryanair, Michael O'Leary. |
0:43.3 | Also, with me, are two independent-minded MPs. We've got Steve Baker, the Tory, who may well be voting against the government next week, and Nadia Wittam, the Labour MP, |
0:56.0 | who has just voted against the instructions of her party's whips. |
1:01.0 | You've seen the stats on rising infections. |
1:06.0 | Did the Prime Minister do enough yesterday to, in a sense, |
1:10.0 | to try and suppress the incidents of the virus? |
1:13.3 | Look, we all understand that if absolutely necessary, we have to have lockdown restrictions. |
1:18.8 | And I think everybody, they've, the British public has already shown that it can deal with a great amount of... |
1:24.6 | But in Scotland, Nicola Thurgeon said no mixing between households, do you think that should |
1:28.3 | have happened for the whole of England? |
1:29.3 | If you just let me finish my first point, and I'll come to that, Robert. |
1:32.3 | We've already seen that people can put up with a great deal, but people can do that when they know |
1:38.3 | that the government is doing absolutely everything it can. I don't think anyone in their right mind |
1:42.3 | could look at the way that the government has |
1:44.5 | handled this and think that it's done well. Testing and tracing has been an absolute shambles. |
1:49.4 | We heard the other day MP after MP, including many... |
1:53.0 | You're making a party political point, which is perfectly reasonable point, but I'd quite |
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