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Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast

Is vaccine rollout still on track? Plus Alan Johnson special guest

Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast

ITV News

Government, Politics, News

4.2177 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Former home secretary Alan Johnson is our special guest this week.

We also discuss vaccine nationalism and whether other countries can impact the UK's jab rollout.

In a deep dive interview, former Labour minister Alan Johnson talks about everything from switching politics for writing, his sympathy for ministers during the pandemic and thoughts on whether Labour can win the next election.

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0:00.0

All aboard the Vaccine Express, the one-stop ticket to life out of this crisis.

0:09.7

The UK rollout was powering along, but now for the first time the journey has a slight

0:13.7

hiccup on route. Major global powers suggest they might block exports, but don't worry if

0:18.5

producer Lewis can get his hands on Mexican Coca-Cola, he can get his

0:22.4

hands on anything. I'm Shihab Khan, he's Daniel Hewitt. Hello. And together, we're the calling

0:27.3

Peston team. We'll be doing what we do every episode and give ITV's political editor, Robert

0:32.5

Peston, a call to get his insight in the latest news and development. But first, Dad, it's good to have you back.

0:39.3

I've been doing the intro. I'm keeping the intro duty in what's nothing short of a power grab.

0:45.9

Well, you did such a good job last week without me that I don't see any reason to change it.

0:50.1

It's a bit like not changing a winning football team, isn't it? You have a good result.

0:55.0

Why change the 11?

0:56.0

I'm trying to see it in a positive way.

0:58.0

If you want to call it a coup, fair enough, I'm relaxed.

1:01.0

I'm gutted I missed last week because I didn't get to try the Mexican Coke.

1:06.0

I haven't actually spoken to either of you about it.

1:08.0

Did you try it last week? We did try it, yeah, but we forgot to bring a

1:12.7

kind of regular cook to compare it against. So how, what did it taste the same? Or was it actually

1:18.9

a lot better? What do you think? I mean, there are two sides of this. And we ended the episode

1:23.1

saying that we should never do this again, because it's not an audio friendly activity the two of us

1:31.3

sitting in silence drinking coke it's how you do it still went it's still end up on the podcast the

1:35.5

second thing is as lewis said we didn't actually have a normal bit of coke to compare it to so we

1:40.1

both took a sip and we were like we think this tastes like normal coke but we can't be

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