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The Week in 60 Minutes: Warring Scots and decline of the Church

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🗓️ 7 February 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, Andrew Neil is joined by Stephen Daisley, a journalist and Spectator contributor; The Revd Marcus Walker, Rector of Great St Bartholomew's in London; and a team of Spectator journalists.

We discuss whether vaccines are already having an impact, if the UK's relationship with the EU is deteriorating, and if the Church of England has failed its members.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the week in 60 minutes, brought to you by Spectator TV and recorded on Thursday, February the 4th.

0:19.5

First up, the UK's vaccine rollout continues at pace.

0:23.3

Over 10 million vaccinated with the first dose at the latest count.

0:27.9

We'll bring you the latest COVID update, as well as the spectators inside track on just how the UK has done it.

0:35.8

The rollout is a source of envy, especially across the channel.

0:39.0

On Friday, the EU panicked, decided to close the Irish border to stop vaccines being exported

0:44.7

to the UK, and then immediately backtracked when the enormity of its stupidity dawned on it.

0:50.7

The spectator's political team will be breaking down the fallout. We'll also take a look

0:55.7

at the sacking of Joanna Cherry, the SNPMP, who dared to side with Alex Salmon and the party's

1:03.2

embrace of transgender politics from the party's front bench. All these issues is the SMP finally in some kind of trouble. And the Church

1:14.1

of England, it was in decline before the pandemic. It's now an even faster decline. That's this

1:19.9

week's cover story on The Spectator. So all that to come in the next hour. If you subscribe to the

1:25.4

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1:27.9

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1:28.7

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1:30.0

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1:34.3

As always, a very special thanks to Charles Stanley for their continued support of the week in 60 minutes.

1:41.3

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1:45.7

oldest companies on the London Stock Exchange. We're delighted to be partners with them.

1:51.0

Now, before the vaccine, British pandemic policy was marked by repeated failures, but his vaccine

1:59.0

rollout has become the envy of many other countries, especially

2:02.4

those across the channel. Kate Andrews joins us to bring us up to date with the latest stats.

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