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The Edition: when will the country truly recover from the virus?

Best of the Spectator

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4.4785 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The vaccine might be just around the corner, but can the country truly recover? (01:00) How can the Labour party win back the working class? (11:15) And finally, should we celebrate the new statue of Mary Wollstonecraft? (23:10)

With The Spectator's political editor James Forsyth, chair of the Health Select Committee Jeremy Hunt, firefighter and writer Paul Embery, Times Radio presenter and former Labour MP Gloria de Piero, The Spectator's radio critic Kate Chisholm, and Spectator contributor and feminist writer Julie Bindel.

Presented by Lara Prendergast.

Produced by Cindy Yu, Max Jeffery, Matt Taylor and Sam Russell.

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Hello and welcome to the edition. The spectators look at some of the most intriguing and important issues within the week's magazine. I'm Lara Prendergast. This week, three vaccines

0:36.1

effective against coronavirus have now been found, but can Britain

0:39.6

recover from the scars that it leaves behind?

0:46.0

Plus, will Labour become the party of the working class again, or is it just for cosmopolitan

0:50.4

liberals?

0:51.6

And finally, is the new Mary Wollstonecraft sculpture in Newington Green

0:55.2

a good reflection of her character? First up, James Forsyth writes in this week's cover

1:03.3

piece about the economic, educational and health challenges that Britain will face after the virus

1:08.8

goes away. How will the country recover? To discuss this,

1:13.4

he joins me now alongside Jeremy Hunt, the former health secretary and former foreign secretary,

1:18.2

and now chair of the Health Select Committee. James, in your cover piece this week, you say that

1:23.1

while victory of the coronavirus looks imminent, it has come at an extraordinary cost. How great do you think

1:29.0

that cost will be? It is going to be huge. You heard the spending review yesterday that, you know,

1:35.1

that every, even at the time of the next general election at the end of its parliament, the government

1:38.8

is still going to be borrowing over £100 billion a year. So that is the kind of economic damage. Then there is the societal

1:46.8

damage. You know, I think the view in Whitehall is it's going to take two to three years for the

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