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Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast

Lockdown easing unmasked - plus cricket legend Michael Holding

Calling Peston: The ITV News Politics Podcast

ITV News

Government, Politics, News

4.2177 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The government has revealed its plan for the final step of the Covid roadmap - but for some 'freedom day' is inspiring fear.

Robert Peston analyses the decision and tells the story of those who are worried about its implications.

Then Dan Hewitt talks to ITV News Health Producer Alex Cherrie about the reaction from front-line medics.

Plus Shehab Khan interviews cricket legend Michael Holding about his new book.

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Hello, for 16 long months controlling coronavirus has meant living with once unthinkable legal

0:53.0

limits on our lives, locking down,

0:55.0

masking up and keeping our distance from those we love. But no longer. The virus may be staying put,

1:01.0

but those legal limits are not. In England, on July the 19th, pretty much all of them will be gone.

1:06.0

The UK government is hoping the vaccines will be all the protection we need to keep hospitalisations and deaths

1:11.4

low enough to get back to normal. If not now, then when was the question Boris Johnson posed

1:16.7

this week, but there are plenty of questions over whether he's gone too far in removing

1:21.2

too many measures. I'm Daniel Hewitt. Welcome to episode 98 of Calling Peston with me to discuss

1:27.4

this massive development in the COVID story.

1:29.3

Our political reporter Shehab Khan, how you doing Sheehab?

1:32.3

Hello, yeah, good thanks.

1:33.3

And our political editor, of course, Robert Peston is here.

1:36.3

How are you and Robert?

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