Hello and welcome to the week in 60 Minutes, brought to you by Spectator TV and recorded on Thursday the 22nd of April.

I'm Fraser Nelson editor of the

spectator standing in for Andrew Neal so wish me luck. On this week's show we're

going to be looking at Joe Biden's first hundred days. We're going to look at the

Indian variant of COVID and finding out how much more dangerous it is. We'll have

a former Chancellor, Sachaad Javid, on the

Football Super League debacle and a former Swedish Prime Minister, Karl Bilt, about what

to make about Putin's ambitions in Ukraine. All that to come in the next hour. And as ever,

a very special thanks to Charles Stanley for their support of this programme. Charles Stanley is

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

We're delighted to be partnering with Charles Stanley.

Now first, it's always been a hundred days since Donald Trump left his office.

We've had to learn to live without his Twitter feed and his various verbal bombs,

but has Joe Biden been doing much better? Freddie Gray writes the cover piece on that this week,

and joins me now, as does Kate Andrews, our economics correspondent. So, Freddie, let's look at

the Biden scorecard. Where does it leave us so far?

Well, the scorecard, I mean, is probably quite positive if you're a Biden supporter, if you're a Democrat.

The vaccine rollout is, he's accelerated it. It's been a big success.

The COVID relief package has made people happy.

Giving people money always makes them quite keen on you, as I'm sure Kate will go on to

explain.

But there's also been this undercurrent of concern about Biden.

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