The Week in 60 Minutes: EU tantrum and hotel quarantine
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4.3 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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We discuss whether the EU's dispute with AstraZeneca is the beginning of a vaccine war, if quarantines for international arrivals will work in Britain, and who have been Britain's best prime ministers.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the week in 60 Minutes, brought to you by Spectator TV and recorded on Thursday, January |
| 0:18.4 | the 28th. |
| 0:19.8 | This week's cover story, the vaccine wars turn nasty in Europe. |
| 0:24.5 | We'll take a look at the EU's temper tantrum over its sluggage supply |
| 0:28.5 | and ask if this is a sign of things to come. |
| 0:32.3 | Schools and border controls have dominated domestic news this week. |
| 0:35.8 | The spectators' political team will report on the |
| 0:38.7 | latest developments. We'll head down under to discover how Australia's travel quarantine system |
| 0:44.6 | has worked, and on the 300th anniversary of the creation of the Office of Prime Minister, |
| 0:51.1 | we'll speak to historian and biographer Anthony Selden, on who's been the best |
| 0:56.0 | and the worst. |
| 0:57.0 | But why is there no museum of Prime Ministers? |
| 1:01.0 | All that to come in the next hour. |
| 1:03.0 | If you subscribe to the Spectator's YouTube channel, why wouldn't you? |
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| 1:14.0 | And as always, a very special thanks to Charles Stanley for their continued support of the week in 60 minutes this year. |
| 1:22.1 | Charles Stanley is one of the UK's leading wealth management firms, one of the owners companies on the London Stock Exchange, |
| 1:29.0 | and we are delighted to have them as our partners. |
| 1:32.8 | Britain passed a miserable milestone of 100,000 COVID deaths this week. |
| 1:38.2 | It's a grim statistic, a terrible toll which puts even more pressure on the vaccine rollout, not just to leaders out |
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