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🗓️ 13 September 2021
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0:00.0 | Coffee House Shots is sponsored by EDF, Britain's biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. |
0:06.5 | Find out how we are busy helping Britain achieve net zero at www.edufenergy.com. Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots as Vectators Daily Politics Podcast. |
0:24.2 | I'm Katie Bawes and I'm joined by James Forsy. |
0:27.5 | And we were in the last week of Parliament before we head into the conference recess. |
0:31.9 | James is quite a bit lined up. |
0:33.3 | But before we get to Social Care Vote and also the Will-they-wain-lay of the second-room |
0:38.0 | mill on a reshuffle, we had what appeared to be a bold move by the government over the weekend, |
0:43.2 | which was Sajad Javid saying that the government would not bring in vaccine passports. |
0:47.8 | Tell us what he said and what it actually means. |
0:50.6 | So it was a U-turn. |
0:51.6 | Boris Johnson had said on the day that all the restrictions lifted that |
0:55.4 | from the end of September, you'd only be able to enter a nightclub if you were double vaccinated. |
0:59.9 | There was huge Tory backbench opposition to this. There was an urgent question House of Commons |
1:05.8 | on Wednesday last week, where even the Dean to Harvey, the minister responsible for the policy, |
1:11.5 | said that it kind of went against everything he stood for. |
1:14.2 | And only one Tory MPs spoke in favour of the policy, more than 10 expressed their opposition, |
1:19.1 | and it was clear that there were more than 40 Tory MPs against this. |
1:22.3 | And if Labour and the other opposition parties were against it, the government would have |
1:25.3 | lost its majority. |
1:26.7 | So on Sunday morning, Sajabwe went went out and it sounded at the beginning of his media around, |
1:30.3 | like vaccine passports were highly unlikely, and by the end of it, they have been ruled out. |
1:35.3 | But I think ruled out for now is the crucial thing to remember, because those who advocate vaccine passports in government, |
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