The blame game begins
All Out Politics
Sky News
4.2 • 156 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
They discuss the blame game that appears to be opening up between ministers and scientists over the advice given and the decisions taken in the fight against the pandemic.
And the debate over contact tracing is on the agenda as a government target is missed but the Prime Minister responds by promising a world beating system by June.
Joining Adam this week are The Times columnist Melanie Phillips, the editor of politics.co.uk Ian Dunt and Sky's people and politics correspondent Nick Martin.
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| 0:00.0 | The world is becoming increasingly complex and volatile. |
| 0:03.5 | How can we make sense of it all? |
| 0:04.9 | I'm Richard Engelt. |
| 0:05.7 | And I'm Yalda Hekeem. |
| 0:06.7 | And we're the top international correspondents at NBC News and Sky News. |
| 0:10.9 | And we present Sky News's latest podcast, The World. |
| 0:14.6 | Each week will cut through the noise to guide you through the week's global events |
| 0:18.6 | and explain to you why, what happens out there |
| 0:22.4 | matters to you wherever you are. Listen now to the world with Richard Engel and me Yalda Hakim, |
| 0:28.2 | wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:35.7 | Hello and welcome to the All-Out Politics podcast from Sky News. I'm Adam Bolton and joining me this week are the Times colonist Melanie Phillips, the editor of politics.combe.com, UK, Ian Dunn, and Sky's People and Politics correspondent, Nick Martin. We're going to discuss government handling of the coronavirus crisis. Looking back at what has happened in care homes, |
| 0:58.0 | and indeed is still going on, and looking forward to track and trace the next stage of Britain's |
| 1:04.8 | fight against coronavirus. Well, let's start with care homes. And we had some interesting comments this |
| 1:18.1 | week from the Work and Pension Secretary Teres Coffey, who we discover is a chemistry PhD on |
| 1:26.5 | the whole question of what we've come to know as the science |
| 1:30.9 | and also from the Chief Executive of Care England Professor Martin Green |
| 1:35.4 | as well as a standard defence from Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary. |
| 1:42.1 | At the time, as I say, back in the middle of February, the view very clearly expressed |
| 1:48.5 | was that the transmission challenge in Care Homes was not one unlike in other parts. |
| 1:53.5 | With hindsight, did you get it wrong? |
| 1:54.5 | With hindsight, did you get it wrong? |
| 1:56.0 | You can only make judgments and decisions based on the information and advice that you |
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