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Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast

Roadmap special: Are the dates realistic and will we need a jab to go to the pub?

Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast

ITV News

Government, Politics, News

4.2177 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Everything you need to know about the roadmap out of lockdown is in this special episode of Calling Peston.

How realistic is it that nightclubs could open in June? Will we need to prove we've had a Covid-19 vaccine to get inside? Plus, how much financial support will Rishi Sunak provide in his Budget next week?

There'll be another episode of the podcast released later this week.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

So now we know. The aim is that by June 21st, life will return to normal.

0:10.0

Boris Johnson's roadmap out of lockdown is slower than some would like.

0:14.0

Cautious, yes, he said, but irreversible. Well, that's the plan anyway.

0:18.0

So are we really living through the last days of the last ever lockdown?

0:21.6

The very Thor to send shivers. Ah, it's the hope that kills you.

0:25.6

Welcome to Calling Peston with me, Daniel Hewitt. I'll be calling our political editor Robert Peston shortly.

0:30.6

But first, that roadmap, I won't go through the whole thing because I'm sure you'd have read it already,

0:35.6

gone through it with a fine tooth comb to see who you can see when you can see them what you can do for this dishevelled podcast presenter

0:43.0

it's 48 days until that much needed haircut and 83 days till I can go and see my beloved

0:48.6

West Bromwich Albion again though the latter may feel more like punishment these days

0:52.6

there will no doubt be disappointment and frustrations for some of you,

0:56.1

but the government hopes the prospect of a summer.

0:58.3

A proper summer is enough to keep us all following the rules.

1:02.5

She habs not with me this week.

1:04.8

Lewis is producer Lewis, pressing all the buttons, making sure everyone can hear me.

1:09.8

Did you look at the roadmap and think, right, what can I do?

1:12.2

I did look at the roadmap, yeah.

1:13.6

And I noticed if everything goes well and Middlesburg get to the playoff final,

1:19.2

football stadium should open a few days before the playoff final.

1:22.4

And so if we get there, maybe I'll be able to see Borough in Wembley.

1:26.0

There's the hope of life returning to normal, which for some people might feel pretty

1:30.3

unrealistic, but that sort of fades into insignificance compared to the realistic prospect of

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