Tier Two: This Time It's Personal (but outdoors)
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🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On today's New Statesman Podcast, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea discuss the move to bring London up to a 'tier two' covid warning, and then, in You Ask Us, are joined by Stephen Bush to answer your questions on Dan Carden's resignation and what it could mean for Starmer's leadership.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 0:08.0 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 0:31.0 | There are around 48,000 new cases of lung cancer every year in the UK, but it doesn't affect everyone equally. Incident rates are far higher in deprived areas and there's too often a post-code lottery |
| 0:36.1 | when it comes to that all-important early diagnosis. |
| 0:40.0 | The New Statesman Podcast is sponsored by MSD, a research intensive global bio pharmaceutical company |
| 0:46.2 | active in several key areas of global health, including immunization and oncology. |
| 0:51.8 | They've recorded a special sponsored episode with the New Statesman |
| 0:54.9 | podcast in which thought leaders explore how the UK can and must tackle health |
| 0:59.8 | inequalities to deliver early diagnosis and treatment. |
| 1:04.0 | Listen to the episode now. |
| 1:05.6 | Look for lung cancer inequalities in the New Statesman podcast feed. And On this episode of the new statesman podcast we talk about the new tiered |
| 1:26.7 | system of restrictions and you ask us what does Dan Carden's resignation mean for |
| 1:31.5 | Kiestama's Labour Party. |
| 1:32.8 | So the tier system for COVID restrictions is really kicking in now with more people across the country facing |
| 1:48.2 | Tier 2, which is the tougher lockdown restrictions that are very similar to what places like Greater Manchester have been under for weeks. |
| 1:55.2 | So London, Essex and York will have new tougher measures coming in where you can't mix households |
| 2:01.6 | indoors from midnight on Friday. |
| 2:05.0 | And really this has actually exposed more of the sort of north-south divide, |
| 2:09.2 | to put it crudely, that we were talking about on previous episodes of the podcast, where not only do representatives of other parts of the country that have been under stricter rules and sort of crippling economic measures that now Londoners are only just beginning to face. |
| 2:25.0 | Not only are those representatives saying how they've been overlooked, |
| 2:28.0 | but also we still don't know whether Greater Manchester |
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