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It's another day in the maelstrom of COVID lockdown as we bask in the glory of having vaccinated nearly everyone over 50.

But hold on a minute. Is that cloud on the horizon that I see?

Is that a setback that I see hanging around over the Department of Health?

Yesterday, Matt Hancock puffed himself up to his full state of pomposity and practically declared victory in the war against the virus.

Only to be dragged down by the BBC and various other media outlets over a warning about a vaccine shortage.

By the end of the briefing, I was left completely baffled as to whether people under 50 were going to get the jab before the end of April or not, right?

It turns out they aren't. It turns out the experts have decided it's more important to give out second vaccines to the 25 million people who've already had one.

Which leaves me to conclude one thing and one thing only. And I want you to listen carefully to this.

The government and its medical advisors, that's those people from SAGE, apparently don't think it's dangerous for people under 50 not to be vaccinated as a matter

of priority. They obviously don't think there's much risk of them being seriously ill as a result

of getting COVID. So here's the question. Why the heck can't they go out? Why can't they

mingle? Why can't they socialise? Why can't they have dinner together in a restaurant?

Answers please on a postcard. 0344-49-1,000.

Coming up, we'll be talking to our favourite statistician Jamie Jenkins over in Wales with his

take on the figures and what they all mean.

Plus, we'll be looking at the new asylum seeker policy of sending illegal migrants to Gibraltar

or the Isle of Man as some kind of deterrent.

I'm not sure sending them to Gibraltar is much of a deterrent.

If you know you're going to end up there, I might get in a dinghy myself because I quite fancy a bit of a holiday in the sun.

What do you think? Helen Dale will be giving us her view, of course, on the police and crime bill,

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