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Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost

Unlocking lockdown | Dominic Raab & Andy Burnham

Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost

Sky News

Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary, Government

4.2157 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says it would not be "responsible" to discuss how the lockdown could be eased at this stage of the coronavirus outbreak. He also says he will hand the reins of government back to Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday. Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham explains how he thinks businesses could start to reopen.

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0:34.4

Hello and welcome to the Sophie Ridge on Sunday podcast, as pressure continues to mount on the government to give details about how and when the lockdown could be eased,

0:43.3

we were joined by the man currently in charge, Dominic Raab.

0:46.3

Plus Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Quater, Manchester, was on the podcast, we're joined by Matt Lavender.

1:02.5

Hello.

1:03.4

How are you doing, Matt?

1:04.5

Well, I'm very happy this week, Sophie, because as people who listened to last week's podcast will know we had a few technical issues.

1:11.5

It didn't go to plan on the technical front, but they have been fixed, obviously not by

1:16.0

you or I, but by people who are far better at these things than we are. So, no, glad that the

1:20.5

podcast is all working smoothly and yeah, it was another sort of big show amidst this sort of, amidst this crisis, every show feels like a

1:29.1

massive one, but speaking to the man who's basically been running the country for the past few weeks.

1:34.2

Yeah, we had Dominic Raab on the programme today, who is Foreign Secretary of course.

1:38.9

He's also the first Secretary of State, which effectively means that if the Prime Minister

1:42.1

is incapacitated, then he takes over.

1:45.2

It's the kind of job that I think no one expects to actually have to do.

1:49.5

But of course, with Boris Johnson contracting COVID-19, ending up in intensive care,

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