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The Peston Podcast

Redecorating Downing Street, Racism on Social Media and India's Battle with COVID

The Peston Podcast

Faraz Aghaei

Government, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.620 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week on the #Peston Podcast we’re discussing:

❶ How damaged is the Prime Minister by the disclosures that he borrowed money from the Tory party to finance the redecoration of his Downing Street home? And also by the charge that he made extraordinary remarks before the 2nd lockdown that he would rather see ‘bodies piling high in the streets’ rather than have a 3rd lockdown?
❷ How do we get the scourge of racism off social media especially when it relates to footballers?
❸ Should we be doing more to help India obtain more vaccines? And what kind of booster will those who have already been vaccinated in the UK be getting in the autumn?

Listen to all this and more as we join ITV’s Political Editor Robert Peston as he sits down with Leader of the Opposition Keir Starmer MP, Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi MP, Sheffield United footballer David McGoldrick, the Conservative's Dehenna Davison MP and Labour's Jon Cruddas MP.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up on the Peston podcast. How damaged is the Prime Minister by the disclosures that he borrowed money from the Tory party to finance the redecoration

0:23.6

of his Downing Street home and also by the charge that he made extraordinary remarks

0:31.6

before the second lockdown that he'd rather see bodies piling high in the streets rather than have a third lockdown.

0:40.3

Also, how do we get the scourge of racism of social media, especially where it relates to footballers?

0:48.3

And then we're also going to be looking at vaccines.

0:52.3

Should we be doing more to help? India obtain more vaccines.

0:57.2

What kind of booster will we be getting in the autumn? Those of us who've already been vaccinated.

1:03.9

So all this and more with Sikki Asthma, Labour's leader, Nadim Zaharwe, the Vaccines Minister,

1:11.5

the Sheffield United and Ireland striker, David McGoldrick,

1:15.6

and the backbench Tory MPVN of Davidson,

1:19.1

and Labour's John Crudders.

1:21.3

John, if I could just start with you,

1:24.7

Keirtham, we're trying to make a lot of mileage

1:26.1

out the Prime Minister's woes, the uncertainties about how long he borrowed from the Tory party

1:31.3

and those explosive remarks that he says he didn't make

1:36.3

and a couple of witnesses said to me he did make.

1:38.3

Do you think any of this is having an impact on the way that voters feel about the government.

1:45.0

If you asked me a couple of days ago, I'd have said, no, I'd said there's an awful lot of froth.

1:48.0

You can't really tell what's going on, but there's something building.

1:52.0

And the aggression of the Prime Minister in trying to push this back and not answer the questions

1:57.0

suggests to me that there is something underneath that is literally

2:00.9

ticking away, you know? It's the thin end of a very big wedge. This is going to get bigger,

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