The Week in 60 Minutes: Salmond's fightback and vaccine ID cards
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The Spectator
4.4 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
We discuss whether life will return to normal on 21 June, if a new 'retain and explain' policy will stop statue controversies, and how well Salmond's Alba party will do in May's Holyrood elections.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the week in 60 Minutes, brought to you by Spectator TV, recorded on Thursday, April the 8th. |
| 0:19.9 | On this week's show, Kenny McCaskill, the SMPMP, will tell us why he defected to Alex |
| 0:26.8 | Hammond's Alba Party. |
| 0:28.8 | And the Prime Minister has promised freedom from lockdown after the 21st of June, |
| 0:34.2 | what kind of freedom will it be? |
| 0:36.7 | All that to come in the next hour of quality TV. |
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| 1:39.2 | Now, COVID, June the 21st, it's earmarked as Freedom Day on the roadmap out of lockdown. |
| 1:48.8 | The nightclubs are to reopen. Legal requirements on social distancing should go. And thanks to the UK's |
| 1:55.9 | successful vaccine rollout, more than a semblance of pre-COVID normality beckons? |
| 2:02.6 | Or does it? |
| 2:03.6 | Is the government changing the goalposts already? |
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