Travel woes and Brexit five years on
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The UK eased travel to several holiday destinations this week, but will they welcome British tourists? And when are vaccination passports being introduced? Plus we reflect on five years since the Brexit referendum and how it has reshaped the country, its economy and the political parties. Presented by Sebastian Payne, with George Parker, Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe, Robert Shrimsley and special guest Anand Menon. Produced by Howie Shannon. The sound engineer was Sean McGarrity.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past |
| 0:12.4 | it all, light and breezy, ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
| 0:21.0 | Make your train journey via vantewescoast.co.uk, a vantewescoast, feel good travel. |
| 0:33.7 | Summer holidays for some Britons were back on this week, as the government announced it |
| 0:38.1 | would ease travel to several destinations and make life better for those who are double |
| 0:42.5 | jabbed. |
| 0:43.5 | I'd say to anybody, of course, travelling for any reason, at the moment during this pandemic, |
| 0:48.6 | you make sure you can re-book your flights, you make sure you've got travel insurance |
| 0:52.7 | in place, and we have to approach this cautiously. |
| 0:59.0 | Welcome to Payne's Politics, your essential insider guide to what's happening in British |
| 1:03.4 | Politics from the Financial Times, with me Sebastian Payne. |
| 1:07.8 | In this week's episode, we'll be discussing the latest changes to travelling in the time |
| 1:11.8 | of Covid, as you heard from Transport Secretary Grand Chaps at the top. |
| 1:16.2 | What is the thinking behind the government's strategy, and is travel really going to be |
| 1:20.0 | that easy this summer? |
| 1:21.3 | I'll be discussing the coronavirus, later with our political editor George Parker and |
| 1:26.0 | political correspondent Jasmine Cameron Schlesey. |
| 1:30.4 | And later, we'll be looking at the five-year anniversary of the Brexit referendum. |
| 1:34.9 | Has it panned out as we expected, and how has it reshaped British politics, the economy, |
| 1:39.6 | and the parties? |
| 1:40.6 | Chief political commentator Robert Strimsley will debate, along with Anad Menon, director |
| 1:45.0 | of the UK in the changing Europe think tank. |
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