The Week in 60 Minutes: Are Covid restrictions based on data?

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🗓️ 20 December 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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On this episode, Andrew Neil is joined by Professor Tim Spector, principal investigator of ZOE at Kings College London; Andrew Wilson, former SNP finance spokesperson and founding partner of Charlotte Street Partners; Rod Liddle, associate editor of The Spectator; and a team of Spectator journalists.

This week, we discuss whether all the data supports increased coronavirus restrictions, if there's a case for Scottish independence, and the highs and lows of 2020.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the week in 60 minutes from Spectator TV recorded on Thursday, December the 17th. It's our final show of the year on Spectator TV today. London has got into
0:23.3	tier three, but only for a few days. Does the Christmas easing still make sense? I'll be speaking
0:29.8	to the Spectator's political team and hearing from Professor Tim Specter, a genetic epidemiologist
0:36.4	at King's College in London.
0:39.1	We return to the economics of Scottish independence with Andrew Wilson,
0:43.2	former member of the Scottish Parliament for the SNP,
0:46.3	an author of that party's Scottish Growth Commission.
0:50.3	And finally, we wrap up the year by going over the highs and lows of 2020 with Spectator
0:56.6	columnist wrote little.
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