Coming up on the Peston podcast, has the Prime Minister really done everything he could to protect us from the virus?

Today he said schools may reopen on March the 8th.

Will they reopen on March the 8th?

And are there going to be problems down the track with the supply of vaccine?

All this and much more with the business secretary

Quasi Quarteng with the vaccine expert.

Robin Shattuck from Imperial College and Chief Rabbi

Ephrae Mervis who I'm going to talk to you about really

the struggles many many many people are facing

to cope emotionally, spiritually with these terrible times.

Also joining me, Labor star, Jess Phillips,

and Tory rising star, Deanna Davidson.

First up, Deanna Davidson.

Deanna, very good to see you. I just wanted to start with the big announcement today, which is the Prime

Minister said, if all goes to plan, he hopes that schools can reopen on the 8th of March. I mean, I've talked to quite a lot

of his scientific advisers. They say there's a lot of risks around that. It's by no means certain

that schools will reopen then. Do you think he was wise to name a date at this stage?

Well, I think if you listened really carefully to what the prime minister said, he set out the 8th of March as an ambition, something to aim towards.

But at no point did he say that would definitely be the date on which schools would be reopening.

And the Prime Minister outlined that it would be dependent on a number of factors, mainly looking at the case rates across the country, but also how well

the vaccination programme is going and how that vaccine is taking shape and protecting people.

And he set out that there will be a full scientific review in the middle of February,

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