Summary
More than 23 million people in England will be placed in the highest tier 3 category of coronavirus restrictions, when the national lockdown ends next Wednesday. Adam, Laura and Chris talk through the new tougher tier system, and the government’s methods for choosing which areas move up and down the scale. And, former Conservative Education and International Development Secretary Justine Greening joins tells us why she believes not enough is being done to “level-up” the country, both at home and abroad.
Producers: Patrick Baker, Georgia Coan, Frankie Tobi, Ben Weisz Assistant Editor: Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Well, today we're going to be joined by the former international development secretary, |
| 0:09.0 | Justine Greening. Hello. |
| 0:10.8 | Hi, Adam, how are you? |
| 0:12.0 | I'm very well, and it's going to get better because we're going to start off with a little |
| 0:14.7 | quiz because I love a quiz and you're bound to get this as a former International Development |
| 0:18.8 | Secretary because everyone knows the UK's current target for spending on international aid is 0.7% of gross national income, |
| 0:27.6 | so the whole economy in a year. |
| 0:29.9 | Which countries are higher or lower than that? Do you remember these stats justine? I think I'd |
| 0:36.6 | be writing saying Norway and Sweden as a start. |
| 0:39.8 | Norway? Higher definitely. Well I was going to give you the countries then you tell me higher or lower, but you got |
| 0:44.0 | and maybe you got Norway already. Yeah. You've got your match here Adam. France, higher or lower. |
| 0:49.5 | Lower. Lower. Correct. United Arab Emirates. |
| 0:55.0 | Lower. |
| 0:56.0 | They are, but in future when we spend 0.5, they spend 0.55, |
| 1:02.0 | so they'll be just a bit higher in future. |
| 1:04.5 | That's a tricky question. |
| 1:06.5 | Russia, higher or lower. |
| 1:09.5 | Lower. |
| 1:10.5 | Quite significantly lower by like orders of magnitude 0.07 they spent. |
| 1:15.0 | I did sound confident about that didn't I? Yeah exactly. Oh it's an interesting one. |
| 1:19.0 | Germany higher or lower. I think we would have been higher will now be lower. Yeah so |
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