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Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. On this episode of the New Statesman podcast we discuss the vaccine rollout and you

ask us does a Scotch egg count as a substantial meal. We're speaking in a week when the UK has been the first to approve the Pfizer vaccine,

so people in the UK are going to start being vaccinated next week. This has been

accompanied with quite a bit of sort of flag-waving rhetoric from ministers since the

news broke, basically showing off that our regulator managed to approve

it first and suggesting that this is somehow either a result of Brexit or because Britain is just

simply a better country, as Gavin Williamson put it. Stephen you got a number of

responses to your morning call about the vaccine didn't you and what does that

tell us about the way that ministers are framing the news?

Yeah, so yesterday, well, Wednesday if you are someone who has not kindly subscribed

and therefore gets on the day access. So on Wednesday, obviously the day of the press conference, I sent it after the press conference, you know, obviously I usually get replies mostly from a kind of cast of regulars or people who live in one of the countries mentioned in the

smalls or work in a relevant industry or you know the ones I enjoy less which is

people pointing out typos but yeah I got you know more than a hundred which okay is a teeny tiny fraction of the number of people who actually receive it

But it's well in excess of the number of emails I have ever got about a single topic before.

I mean, yeah, like us leaving that you didn't get that many replies.

Don Cummings didn't get that many replies from people who some had reasonable fears, some had fears than I would say were sort of like out and out

conspiracism, but actually even the ones which were out and out conspiracism.

So to take one which I specifically

decided I had to tackle in today's. So they got enough of them. I thought, okay, right,

I this is beyond my like logistical ability to like do a bespoke like, look, here's what I was

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