The Week in 60 Minutes: Boris's green games & Tory sleaze

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🗓️ 18 April 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, Andrew Neil is joined by Jill Rutter, senior research fellow at UK in a Changing Europe and a former civil servant; Sir Christopher Meyer, former UK ambassador to the United States; environmental campaigner Stanley Johnson; Professor Lawrence Gostin, director of the WHO's Center for National and Global Health Law; and a team of Spectator journalists.

We discuss the Greensill scandal, Boris's plans to rebrand Britain, and how vaccine passports are being used in the US.

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

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Week in 60 Minutes brought to you by Spectator TV recorded on Thursday, April 15th.
0:19.5	On this week's show, we'll cover everything
0:21.8	from climate change to COVID to lobbying.
0:25.8	I'll be speaking to Stanley Johnson
0:27.5	about the government's ambitious green plans
0:29.6	and to Christopher Mayer about how good a foreign policy
0:32.9	the whole global warming approach of the government is.
0:36.7	And just how many lobbyists does the
0:38.8	failed financier Lex Greensell have in Whitehall? He knows. Anyway, all that to come in the next
0:47.5	hour of Public Service TV at its finest. Now, if you enjoy what we do here at Spectator TV,
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1:29.3	And as ever, a very special thanks to Charles Stanley
1:31.6	for their continued support of the week in 60 minutes.
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