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All Out Politics

Political crossroads for Johnson and Starmer

All Out Politics

Sky News

News Commentary, Politics, News, Government

4.2156 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Adam Boulton and guests assess Boris Johnson's options ahead of his announcement on lockdown restrictions next week and the longer term prospects for Sir Keir Starmer as Labour leader after his big speech on the economy.

Joining Adam this week are the chief leader writer at The Observer, Sonia Sodha; Conservative commentator Tim Montgomerie and Sky's chief political correspondent Jon Craig.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:10.3

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0:15.0

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0:19.5

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0:21.3

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0:22.3

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0:32.3

Hello, welcome to the All-At Politics Podcast.

0:38.3

I'm Adam Bolton and joining me this week are the chief leader-writer for the Observer newspaper,

0:42.9

Sonia Soda, the conservative commentator and serial founder of online sites, Tim Montgomery,

0:49.8

and Sky's chief political correspondent John Craig.

0:53.1

This week we're going to look at the dilemmas facing both Boris Johnson and Keir Starma.

0:58.4

What should Boris Johnson say on Monday concerning lifting the lockdown?

1:03.2

And, of course, can Sir Keir Starma really get into the argument of national politics

1:09.2

following his major speech on economic policy.

1:17.0

Well, let's start with the Prime Minister, and who really would be the Prime Minister?

1:22.0

A lot of advice coming in this week when MPs held a hearing of the Science and Technology Committee from the experts,

1:29.3

but not all of it, looking in the same way direction.

1:32.1

All those numbers are looking really good.

1:34.3

So my conclusion from that is if you're driven by the data and not by dates, right now,

1:40.5

you should be looking at earlier unlocking because the data is so good.

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