Testing times | Michael Gove, Tony Blair & Rosena Allin-Khan

Sophy Ridge On Sunday

Sky News

Politics, News, News Commentary, Government

4.2 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Michael Gove says the UK is now testing 10,000 people a day for coronavirus. But he refuses to be drawn on when lockdown measures are likely to be lifted. Former Prime Minister Tony Blair calls for testing of almost the entire UK population. Labour MP Dr Rosena Allin-Khan makes the same plea on testing, just after finishing a night shift in A&E.

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0:00.0	The world is becoming increasingly complex and volatile.
0:03.5	How can we make sense of it all?
0:04.9	I'm Richard Engel.
0:05.7	And I'm Yalda Hekeem.
0:06.7	And we're the top international correspondents at NBC News and Sky News.
0:10.9	And we present Sky News's latest podcast, The World.
0:14.7	Each week will cut through the noise to guide you through the week's global events
0:18.6	and explain to you why what happens out there
0:22.4	matters to you wherever you are. Listen now to the world with Richard Engel and me Yalda Hakim,
0:28.2	wherever you get your podcasts.
0:32.6	Hello and welcome to the Sophie Ridge on Sunday podcast after the Prime Minister contracted
0:37.2	coronavirus and with a crisis intensifying in the UK. We were joined by Michael's and welcome to the Sophie Ridge on Sunday podcast after the Prime Minister contracted coronavirus
0:37.7	and with a crisis intensifying in the UK. We were joined by Michael Gove, one of the government's
0:42.9	most senior ministers. The former Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Labour MP Dr Rosanna
0:47.6	Alan Khan were also on the podcast by Matt Lavender.
1:02.4	Hello.
1:03.0	How are you, Matt?
1:03.7	Yeah, not too bad from our distant studios apart from each other, as we were talking about last week.
1:08.5	It's going to continue for the foreseeable future,
1:16.4	I think. But yeah, not too bad, not too bad. Loving that lockdown life. What about you?
1:20.6	Yeah, the same. I mean, I'm enjoying obviously self-isolating from you. We don't actually see each other anymore, me and Matt. Well, that's a bit mean. And actually, also... The only time to
1:23.8	catch up is on the podcast. Also, thoroughly misleading, given that all you've done is spend the last week moaning about the fact that you're all on your own and you're really
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