Is a second wave of coronavirus inevitable? Plus U-turns, testing and trims
Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast
ITV News
4.2 • 177 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode we speak to Ilan Kelman, Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, who talks us through the risk of a second peak of Covid-19.
Robert Peston gives us his insight into this week's government U-turns and the progress of the UK's coronavirus testing and tracing regime.
And all the team discuss what they're doing to mitigate the impacts of having no access to a hairdresser.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome once again to another episode of the ITV News Politics Podcast. |
| 0:07.3 | The Tory Prime Minister once said they were not for turning. |
| 0:09.8 | That Tory Prime Minister was not Boris Johnson. |
| 0:12.6 | This week a U-turned not once but twice in two days. |
| 0:15.9 | Firstly, on a policy which could have seen the families of some overseas NHS workers killed by coronavirus deported. |
| 0:22.6 | After outrage from all sides, the government decided to extend the indefinite leave to remain |
| 0:26.3 | offer to porters, cleaners and care workers. Then 24 hours later, another one, Boris Johnson, |
| 0:32.0 | was forced to scrap a surcharge for migrant NHS workers who need access to NHS treatment. |
| 0:37.2 | Former Tory Minister |
| 0:38.0 | Lord Patton had called the policy monstrous. Boris Johnson, who defended the decision at PMQ's, |
| 0:43.3 | a day later, changed his mind. Hopefully you haven't you turned on us just yet and we'll stick |
| 0:47.7 | with us for another episode of Calling Peston with me, Daniel Hewitt, my colleague, she had Khan. |
| 0:52.9 | Hello! And the man whose face adorned the logo of this podcast, Mr Robert Pestan, me, Daniel Hewitt's my colleague, Shehab Khan. Hello. |
| 0:58.8 | And the man whose face adorned the logo of this podcast, Mr. Robert Pest and will be here for his analysis. |
| 1:01.3 | Anyway, how are we all doing? Lewis, Sheehab, welcome. |
| 1:05.6 | Hello. |
| 1:06.4 | It's good to be here. How are you? How's lockdown treating you? |
| 1:10.7 | It's all right. I haven't felt very |
| 1:12.6 | locked down this week. I've been travelling around quite a lot, doing some stories. So it's been, |
| 1:20.0 | it's been a good week actually. I've got sunburned in a car park in Crawley. So that's glamour, |
| 1:24.7 | the glamour of our TV life. That is as good as it gets. |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah, we have to socially distance now between producers and camera operators. |
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