The Week in 60 Minutes: EU panic and Sturgeon's stramash

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🗓️ 28 March 2021

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On this week's episode, Andrew Neil is joined by Andrew Adonis, a Labour peer and chair of the European Movement; Jackie Baillie, the deputy leader of Scottish Labour who sits on the Holyrood committee investigating whether Nicola Sturgeon broke the ministerial code; Spectator contributor Brigid Waddams; and a team of Spectator journalists.

We discuss whether the EU will ban vaccine exports, whether the UK's rollout was a Brexit success, and what it was like to watch the collapse of the British Raj.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the week in 60 minutes, brought to you by Spectator TV recorded on Thursday, March the 25th.
0:19.8	On this week's show, the EU's vaccine showdown with the UK
0:23.7	and what's behind it. I'll be talking to staunch Europhile Andrew Adonis about that and
0:28.8	other matters, British and European. We'll also take a look at the two reports released this
0:34.3	week on Nicola Sturgeon and her devolved Scottish government, both on the
0:39.8	mishandling of the Alex Salmon case. Labor MP Jackie Bailey joins the show. She's been taking
0:45.1	a leading role in the Holyrood Inquiry. We'll also take a look back at the India-born
0:51.1	British babies who came back to Blighty in the late 1940s after the end of the ranch.
0:58.3	Where are they now in the twilight years? And does India still feel like home?
1:04.0	All that to come in the next hour of top analysis and debate.
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2:08.7	TV. Now, as we speak, European leaders are a meeting to decide whether to impose export
2:15.5	bans on AstraZeneca jabs coming out of the EU.
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