Woe from Whitty
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🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Anoosh Chakelian, Stephen Bush, Ailbhe Rea and Patrick Maguire convene to (once again) discuss when this crisis might be over, and, in You Ask Us, take your questions on what, if anything, that government has got right.
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| 1:13.8 | a new chagadian at Alveray to discuss when will this all be over and just what has |
| 1:18.8 | the government got right? So the big headline from the latest number 10 press conference which will have been the night |
| 1:31.4 | before some listeners hear this or two nights before some others was |
| 1:35.6 | from the chief medical officer Chris Whitti who gave a clearer indication than has been given before of how long social distancing measures in whatever form |
| 1:46.1 | we'll have to go on for and he said the next calendar year and of course we've had that followed up by |
| 1:52.2 | Nicola Sturgeon today saying that they'll have to go on at least |
| 1:56.3 | till the end of the year probably into the next year so we're getting more of an idea of how long this sort of new normal is going to go on for. But I don't know how clear you |
| 2:06.2 | guys thought that those two statements were because it's clear they're trying to sound a bit more up front |
| 2:11.5 | about how we're in it for the long haul, but they're also not really |
| 2:14.7 | caveating that with, well, what does some form of social distancing measures mean in the future? Is it basically the same as now, or is it going to be like Macron is planning in France where, you know, he wants to try and open the schools by the 11th of May and then even there's talk of being able to put big events on and things by June. |
| 2:33.7 | Did you have more questions than answers from those statements, guys? |
| 2:38.0 | Sturgen's intervention, I think, has been certainly the appears to be the most honest of any UK politician |
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