The Road to Wigan Tier
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the New Statesman Podcast, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea discuss the government's new three-tier system for covid control, and how the Labour party has responded. Then, You Ask Us temporarily makes way for Ailbhe Asks Anoosh, as we look at the data on people dying at home during the crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
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| 0:20.0 | There are around 48,000 new cases of lung cancer every year in the UK, but it doesn't affect everyone equally. |
| 0:31.0 | Incident rates are far higher in deprived areas and there's too often a post-code lottery |
| 0:36.1 | when it comes to that all-important early diagnosis. |
| 0:40.0 | The New Statesman Podcast is sponsored by MSD, a research intensive global bio pharmaceutical company |
| 0:46.2 | active in several key areas of global health, including immunization and oncology. |
| 0:51.8 | They've recorded a special sponsored episode with the New Statesman |
| 0:54.9 | podcast in which thought leaders explore how the UK can and must tackle health |
| 0:59.8 | inequalities to deliver early diagnosis and treatment. |
| 1:04.0 | Listen to the episode now. |
| 1:05.6 | Look for lung cancer inequalities in the New Statesman podcast feed. And On this week's episode of the New Statesman podcast we discuss the new three-tier |
| 1:27.5 | system of restrictions and Alva asks me about why so many people are dying at home. |
| 1:35.0 | So we're recording as Boris Johnson is still actually speaking in the Commons, |
| 1:42.0 | answering questions from MPs about the new restrictions |
| 1:46.1 | and the new process for restrictions that he's been announcing this afternoon. The three-tier system |
| 1:51.2 | that we've actually heard quite a bit about over the past few days with some of the plans leaking but now we know for sure what it means for a place to be on medium tier alert, high tier alert and there is a very high tier as well, but he |
| 2:06.0 | only announced the sort of baseline measures for that and those measures are going to be negotiated |
| 2:10.6 | with individual regional leaders. |
| 2:13.7 | So, Alva, is it still confusing, |
| 2:15.7 | or has this cleared up some of the local lockdown measures |
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