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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators Daily Politics podcast. I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie Bors and James Sorseth. So yesterday on a podcast we talked about the Indian variant and back then it was just one stage advisor making some warnings about it. But today, perhaps there's a bit more movement on the government side. Katie, can you tell us

what's the latest of the government thinking on of Indian variant? There's some thinking.

Ultimately, I think that we've seen from the story which the I paper had first yesterday

about her sage, there was some concern in Sage about this Indian variant. I think we're now

seeing a ramping up of that.

Now, you have various, you know, members of Sage, you've got some scientific advisors out in the media

ultimately making the point that this could, you know, cause problems. Should you really be

continuing with the relaxation? I think

Dominic Cummings has retweeted one such, which means, you know, the headlines now about the

fact that Dominic Cummings is a long way saying that it could throw the roadmap in doubt.

In terms of the government, though, the message hasn't really changed. You've got a situation

where ministers out this morning are still

saying they see no reason currently why it will throw off the easing and obviously for the first

easing on Monday but also that's even in relation to the June 21st easing. I think it's worth

pointing out that the June 21st easing hasn't been signed off yet. That would be much near at

time. So everything in terms of whether it shouldn't go ahead or it should go ahead is take it with a bit of a pinch of salt.

We're not near that point for decision making it and won't be for a while. Where I think

the focus now is, is how is the government going to respond to a spike in infections in

places like Bolton when it comes to this variant and what is being discussed,

the idea of surge vaccinations. And there are various ideas that this could be making sure

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