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🗓️ 19 December 2020
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0:00.0 | The Spectator magazine combines incisive political analysis with books and arts reviews of unrivaled authority. Absolutely free. Go to spectator.com.uk forward slash voucher. |
0:25.0 | Hello and welcome to CoffeeHouse shots and Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast and we're bringing |
0:30.0 | your second podcast on a Saturday and that's because we have some bad news. |
0:35.3 | The Prime Minister has delivered an impromptu press conference |
0:38.2 | where he announced new COVID Christmas restrictions. This involves a new tier to the tier |
0:44.7 | system in the shape of Tier 4 and also changes to the Christmas rules no matter where in the UK |
0:50.6 | you live. Isabel, what are the specifics of what the Prime Minister announced? |
0:55.8 | So there will be a new tier, tier four, and that will be London and parts of the south-east, |
1:00.8 | south and east of England, going into that from midnight tonight. And that's essentially |
1:05.3 | lockdown, but with religious services. So people will be instructed to stay at home, |
1:09.8 | including on Christmas Day. There will be no |
1:11.7 | mixing between households at all, not even on Christmas Day. The only mixing you can have is |
1:17.8 | support bubbles where people are at particular risk of loneliness and isolation, or one member |
1:23.2 | of one household meeting with one member of another household outdoors. And non-essential shops, |
1:29.3 | personal care services such as hairdressers and nail bars will close. So that's for tier four. |
1:35.5 | And then tiers one to three, three households will still be able to form a bubble on Christmas |
1:40.4 | day only, but no overnight stays. And James, when the Prime Minister was announcing this in the press conference, one of the big |
1:49.0 | justifications, or perhaps in a way the only one he was really putting forward was this new |
1:53.9 | strain of coronavirus suggesting that it wasn't so much that he had misread the situation |
1:59.0 | previously, but that a new strain of coronavirus |
2:01.9 | which spreads more easily, spreads more rapidly, it means that we are now effectively in a position |
2:07.7 | where new tears have to be put in place. What did he mean by that? So I thought this was actually |
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