The Week in 60 Minutes: Brexit deadlock and Chinese vaccines
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The Spectator
4.4 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, we discuss whether a Brexit deal will really be broken by fish and state aid, whether Wales's 'firebreak' lockdown worked, and why China isn't shouting about it's Covid vaccine.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the week in 60 minutes from Spectator TV recorded on Thursday, December the 10th. |
| 0:17.4 | On the show today, the latest in the Brexit negotiations from the spectator's home team, |
| 0:22.7 | plus Philip Reikroft, former permanent secretary at the department for exiting the EU. Deal or no deal, |
| 0:30.2 | what should Labour do about it? Political editor of the new statesman, Stephen Bush, sheds light on Labour's |
| 0:36.5 | renewed Brexit Civil War. |
| 0:39.0 | There's still no escaping COVID. |
| 0:40.6 | Wales looks like it's about to go into a renewed lockdown. |
| 0:44.4 | I'll speak to a former leader of the Welsh Conservatives to find out why infections there just aren't going down. |
| 0:51.7 | And as the UK began vaccinating with the Pfizer jab this week, it's not the first |
| 0:56.6 | country in the world to have started. China has already vaccinated one million of its people, |
| 1:02.7 | but the vaccines haven't had regulatory approval. We'll speak to Cindy Yu, host of the Spectator's |
| 1:08.8 | Chinese Whispers podcast to find out what's going on. |
| 1:13.0 | A reminder to subscribe to the Spectator's YouTube channel for free, then you'll never miss a show |
| 1:18.6 | on Spectator TV. Just hit the subscribe button in the bottom right corner. |
| 1:24.4 | As always, a special thanks to Charles Stanley for supporting this week's episode of the |
| 1:29.3 | week in 60 minutes. Charles Stanley is one of the UK's leading wealth management firms and one of |
| 1:35.9 | the oldest companies on the London Stock Exchange. So, first, Brexit. No point in speculating, |
| 1:42.4 | since nobody really knows, though the move music has become |
| 1:45.7 | increasingly downbeat this week. I'm joined by the spectators' political editor, James Forsyth, |
| 1:51.0 | and the deputy political editor, Kitty Balls. Welcome to you both, James. What do we now think |
| 1:56.7 | happened at the Johnson Vandalian dinner on Wednesday night in Brussels. So I think over |
| 2:04.4 | scallops and turbot, no coincidence there was quite so much fish served, I think the two sides |
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