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The Week in 60 Minutes: Are vaccine passports the road to freedom?

Best of the Spectator

The Spectator

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.4785 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, Andrew Neil is joined by Rod Liddle, associate editor at The Spectator; Trevor Phillips, managing director at Webber Phillips; journalist Dan Hitchens; Harry Mount, editor of The Oldie; and a team of Spectator journalists.

We discuss how England will leave lockdown, the rise of vaccine diplomacy, and why Anglo-Saxon history is so popular.

To watch the show, go to www.spectator.co.uk/tv.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the week in 60 minutes, brought to you by Spectator TV, recorded on Thursday, February the 18th, on this week's show.

0:21.2

Will we still be in lockdown come summer?

0:23.8

The chances are the rules will be eased about how much,

0:27.5

and would vaccine passports mean greater freedom?

0:30.7

The spectator's political team will tell us about next week's exit strategy announcement

0:35.8

from the Prime Minister.

0:36.8

We'll be joined by Trevor Phillips

0:38.8

and Rod Little to discuss vaccine passports. We'll take a look at the global vaccine game.

0:45.4

China and Russia are now using to export their vaccines as soft power to gain favor in developing

0:52.5

countries. How can the West response?

0:55.0

And finally, how TV and film have given us a renewed interest in England's Anglo-Saxon

1:02.0

origins.

1:03.0

All that to come in the next hour.

1:06.0

As always, if you subscribe to the Spectator's YouTube channel, and why wouldn't you, it's free. You never

1:11.5

miss a program. Just click the subscribe button at the bottom right of the screen now. A very special

1:17.5

thanks to Charles Stanley for their continued support of the week in 60 minutes. Charles Stanley is

1:23.7

one of the UK's leading wealth management firms, one of the oldest companies on the London Stock Exchange,

1:30.3

and we're delighted to have them as our partners at Spectator TV.

1:35.7

Now, on Monday, Boris Johnson will set out how he sees England leaving its third lockdown.

1:43.4

So what can we expect to hear? I'm joined by James Fasai,

1:46.8

the spectator's political editor and Katie Bolls, our deputy political editor. James, first of all,

1:53.6

before we look at what he might say, what are the forces crowding in on them? Is it, on the one hand,

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