Travel: Are You An Amber Gambler?

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

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🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Will the Indian Variant push back the Great Unlocking of June 21 that Boris Johnson has pinned so many hopes on? Are we looking at the return to tiers or even national lockdowns, and will Conservative COVID hawks wear it? Meanwhile the Government’s advice on international travel continues to baffle. Is “go but don’t go” really good enough? And what can we expect from the COVID Inquiry, just confirmed by government? “It’s sobering that, if we accept the worst case scenarios, we could be back at the levels of cases that we saw in January and February.” – Giles Wilkes “Any chair who accepted these terms for the COVID enquiry would not be fit for the job.” – Marcus Shepheard “Did the Government delay ending travel from India because it wanted a deal with the Indian Government? Absolutely. I’ll be amazed if not.” – Giles Wilkes Presented by Bronwen Maddox with Cath Haddon, Giles Wilkes, Matthew Gill, Rosa Hodgkin and Marcus Shepheard. Audio production by Alex Rees. Inside Briefing is a Podmasters Production for the IfG. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government.
0:14.6	I'm Bromwin Maddox. You can now have a pint in a pub, a meal in a restaurant, and hug
0:20.2	someone, even if rather cautiously.
0:22.6	But as the country opens up in what Boris Johnson has described as an irreversible unlocking,
0:27.7	cases of the so-called Indian variant of the coronavirus arising.
0:31.5	So will the Prime Minister need to delay the unlocking plan for June?
0:35.1	We're going to talk about the tough choices facing the government.
0:38.4	And international travel is back on too, or is it? Ministers got into a muddle this week as they
0:43.9	try to explain where people could fly to and whether they should leave the country at all.
0:48.4	We'll take a look at the travel plans and whether they're working or not.
0:52.6	And whatever decisions are taken now
0:54.2	are going to be raked over in the eventual inquiry
0:56.6	into the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis.
0:59.6	Prime Minister has promised that one will be held next year.
1:03.4	What needs to be done to make that useful?
1:05.7	We'll ask our resident inquiry expert to find it.
1:09.2	Joining me today in our virtual studio, our IFG Senior Fellow and former Number 10 advisor,
1:14.2	Giles Wilkes. Hi, Giles.
1:15.6	Hi, there, Bronwyn.
1:16.8	Catherine Hadden, our Senior Fellow and Expert on All Things to Do with Ministers and Constitution
1:21.3	is back again. Hi, Kath.
1:22.6	Hi, Bronwyn.
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