Too good to be true? | Michael Gove & Rachel Reeves

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Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary, Government

4.2 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Michael Gove reveals that the government has hired over 17,000 contact tracers to track coronavirus infections. He also defends the government's treatment of care homes during the pandemic. Labour's Rachel Reeves calls for more transparency on plans to reopen schools.

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0:00.0	The world is becoming increasingly complex and volatile.
0:03.5	How can we make sense of it all?
0:04.9	I'm Richard Engel.
0:05.7	And I'm Yalda Hekeem.
0:06.7	And we're the top international correspondents at NBC News and Sky News.
0:10.9	And we present Sky News's latest podcast, The World.
0:14.7	Each week will cut through the noise to guide you through the week's global events
0:18.6	and explain to you why what happens out there
0:22.4	matters to you wherever you are.
0:24.5	Listen now to the world with Richard Engel and me Yalda Hakim wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.4	Hello and welcome to the Sophie Ridge on Sunday podcast.
0:38.7	On this week's show, we heard from the Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove,
0:42.0	who revealed the government has now hired over 17,000 coronavirus contact tracers,
0:47.3	plus Rachel Reeves, his Labour shadow, was on the show.
0:49.9	Thank you. Now the keen listeners amongst you will have noticed by now that I am not Sophie.
1:03.3	I'm Matt Lavender, her producer. I'm normally on the podcast with her.
1:06.7	And this week we are joined by Neil Patterson, who's been filling in while Sophie's on holiday.
1:11.0	How are you, Neil?
1:11.9	Thank you.
1:12.4	I like to think of myself as rather more than just a filling.
1:15.5	Oh, no, I was, sorry.
1:17.1	I was massively underplaying that.
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