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Hello and thanks for listening to this edition of Analysis. podcasts. Edward Sturton will be looking at how the coronavirus pandemic is rewriting the rules politicians

live by and asking where it will take us. On February the 1st this year the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson

could have been forgiven for congratulating himself. He just fulfilled his big

constitutional promise. The headlines this morning. The UK has officially

left the European Union. But there was a sting in the tale of that morning's news.

Health officials are trying to find anyone who's had close contact with two Chinese

tourists being treated in Newcastle for the coronavirus.

The government had held its first COBRA meeting to discuss coronavirus a week earlier,

but Mr Johnson didn't attend.

Neither he nor anyone else could have predicted then how a virus that began thousands of miles away in China would shake the

foundations of our system of government here in Britain. Nine months on all the

nations of the United Kingdom are living under different social regimes, our internal

borders divide us as never before, and even parts of England have been in open revolt against

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