Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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First up though.

Yesterday evening, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to intensive care,

ten days after testing positive for the coronavirus.

He's the first head of a Western government to be hospitalized for COVID-19.

The Prime Minister's not an event later.

He has received oxygen support and of course one of the reasons for being an intensive care is to make sure

that whatever support the medical team can set it to be appropriate can be provided.

The deterioration of the Prime Minister's condition has unsettled British politics at a crucial moment.

Unlike America, Britain has no formal system of succession.

However, the administration has said that Dominic Rob, before in secretary,

will stand in from Mr Johnson, where necessary, as to Rob even update last night.

He's been receiving excellent care at St. Thomas's Hospital.

And we'd like to take this opportunity as a government to thank NHS staff up and down the country

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