The Week in 60 Minutes: SNP censorship and lockdown's legal limits
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🗓️ 21 March 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
We discuss whether the latest coronavirus data still justifies the current lockdown, how Keir Starmer is becoming irrelevant, and the SNP's efforts to censor Alex Salmond's evidence.
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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 17th. |
| 0:19.6 | On this week's show, the government is seeking to renew its emergency pandemic powers. |
| 0:25.6 | But where's the emergency? |
| 0:27.2 | I'll be speaking to former Supreme Court Judge Jonathan Sumpion. |
| 0:31.5 | And where's the opposition? |
| 0:33.0 | The spectator's political team will analyze the many troubles of Labour Party leader, |
| 0:38.2 | Kea Starrmer. |
| 0:39.7 | We'll also talk Irish travelers, are they still being discriminated against? |
| 0:44.7 | And former Brexit Secretary David Davis will join us to talk about his commons intervention |
| 0:51.3 | in the ongoing Surgeon, Stalin, Civil War. |
| 0:55.5 | All that to come in the next hour of top analysis and debate. |
| 0:59.3 | As always, if you subscribe to the spectator's YouTube channel, why would you? |
| 1:03.3 | It's free. |
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| 1:10.1 | A very special thanks to Charles Stanley for their |
| 1:12.4 | continued support of the week in 60 minutes. Charles Stanley is one of the UK's leading wealth |
| 1:17.9 | management firms, one of the oldest companies on the London Stock Exchange. We're delighted |
| 1:23.7 | to be partners with them. Now, next week the government will seek to renew its emergency COVID powers for another six months, |
| 1:33.3 | even though the vaccine rollout continues on target. |
| 1:36.3 | Hospitalizations and deaths are collapsing. |
| 1:39.3 | And in three months, the final COVID restrictions are expected to go in England. So why the need for emergency powers |
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