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Hello and welcome to Coffeehouse Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Isabel Hardman and I'm joined by Katie Balls and James Forsy.

Well, we've reached another milestone in the vaccination program, Katie.

Talk us through what's happened so far. Yes, so I think if you're on Downing Street, you

will be enjoying the papers today. Lots of front pages, ultimately say, you know, good news. The

vaccine world is now getting to the point where the over 70s are going to start to be approached

about appointments. I think there was a growing sense and it's something as we discussed on the

podcast, there has been the point that ministers privately, I think have been more optimistic than

even publicly they have been. But I think that it's now catching onto something and we're seeing

lots more in the papers about quite optimistic targets,

whether or not the official ones people want to say on the morning broadcast round or not,

about how quickly this can go. I think before we get to that, it's probably just worth

pointing out that there's always a bit of a catch or some concern. And although the over

70s are now being approached, we're hearing more and more about the postcode lottery.

So some parts of the country, which have been much quicker to get the vaccine out.

And other parts where actually there are still, you know, some 90-year-olds who are yet to have it.

So I think there's a few tweaks.

It's interesting that we even had a cabinet minister to raise coffee this morning on social media,

effectively saying in her constituency,

she's had some problems and she's looking into it. So broad picture, you know, big picture,

I think this is a good news story, but clearly anything, there are going to be a few snags with

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