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(Boris yawns)

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- [Carrie] Morning.

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- Oh, good morning.

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{knocking at door)

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- Come in.

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Thank you, Robert.

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- Would you like breakfast
in bed, prime minister?

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- Oh, yes, please.

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- No full English though.

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The doctor sent us a diet sheet.

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- Good, good, fresh start.

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New lean, mean Boris.

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Say goodbye to the roly-poly,

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hail-fellow-well-met Boris of yesteryear.

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- I'l bring the juice and muesli.

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- Good.

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Thank you.

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Easter Sunday Christ rose from the dead,

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what did he do on Monday?

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Pootle around a bit
and help in the garden?

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- I don't know what Christ
did but you're gonna rest.

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- Oh God, here he comes.

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Go away.

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Why have we never trained that bloody dog?

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- So testing...

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Where are we at with that?

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- We are increasing capacity

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but there have been a few teething issues.

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- And we're currently at?

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- Currently around 18,000 a day.

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«And I heard there was a
problem with PHE testing?

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- We have a shortage of swabs

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and there has been an
issue with the enzymes.

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- We reckon we're
getting around 3% errors.

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-Can I remind everyone that
we have a current target

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of 100,000 tests per day
by the end of this month.

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- We are aware of that,

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though that wasn't a target that we set.

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That was your target.

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{knocking at door)

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- Come in.

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- Prime Minister?

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- Ah Pericles, the man himself,

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would you put it over there
please on the table by the desk?

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- Yes, Prime Minister.

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- He's my hero, he died
in the plague in Athens.

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We are made of sterner stuff.

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- Is that good there Prime Minister?

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- Very good, thank you so much, thank you.

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- Prime Minister.

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- [Reporter] And I'm very
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have now died from coronavirus,

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every one of them a tragedy.

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(siren wailing)

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- [Doctor] Okay we're here.

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- [Doctor] Here we go Andrea.

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- Okay in here please.
- Thanks Becky.

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We'll just put you by the bed now, okay?

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- Hi Andrea.

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Hi Andrea it's Becky.

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It's gonna be alright honey,

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we're gonna get you a
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- [Doctor] Welcome back Andrea.

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You're back at Northwick Park.

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We're going to look after you now.

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- Who made the decision not to test

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the un-symptomatic care workers?

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- Well presumably there
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to allow that.

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- But why aren't they
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Just setting out brand new lighthouse labs

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is bound to be slow out of the blocks.

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Who makes these decisions?

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two Nobel prize winners in medicine?

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- Exactly.

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- Morning.

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- Hello Dom.

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- [Dom] Hello.

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- Welcome back.

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- Thanks.

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- It's delicious.

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- Really?

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- Don't do your old
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- Youth of today.

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- In through the nose, fill those lungs,

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- Oh god, I feel like a geriatric.

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- We need to build your
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just day by day.

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And the harder you work
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- Shall we see, what is he doing?

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Daddy's busy.

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Come on.

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- [Speaker] The report
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well publicized incident in China

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in which two researchers
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were exposed to SARS coronavirus samples

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that were incompletely inactivated.

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- We're almost half way through April.

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How close are we to meeting
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- Yeah, we're at just under 20,000 a day.

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- Where were you supposed
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- We're roughly on target, thanks Dom.

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- Can you send me your projections

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so we can track your progress daily?

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- The Department of Health
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if you wish to check it.

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-I do wish to check it.

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I'd like to see those
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- We need some good news, alright?

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We need to get something out there,

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get something positive out there,

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we're taking a lot of flak on care homes,

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we need something to announce.

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- [Reporter] All around Britain

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people are out in the street,

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but inside the nursing
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the situation is critical and
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- Telegraph says Care
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- Shit,

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Morning all.

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So go on, what is today's good news?

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- Gowns, we're going to run out of gowns.

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in which they need to be
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without undermining safety,

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a clarification rather than a ban.

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- We've had a change of
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-Oh God.

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Let me guess, the gowns?

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- Well we don't need them
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- Right, yeah I mean that makes
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given that the virus only
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- Sats are coming up to 80s,

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are you happy for prior closure?

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- Prior closure.

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Thank you.

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- Prime Minister, the NHS saved your life.

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Now, we need you to save ours.

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- Fuckin' hell.

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- We need personal
protective equipment now.

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- Now, the situation around
PPE has become quite serious.

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- [Mark] Matt, we need
something to announce.

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- Yeah well we have sourced 400,000 gowns

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from a supplier in Turkey,

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but we should wait for it to
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- Yeah it's important that
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- We are under promising
and under delivering.

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There's a total lack of ambition,

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it seems to me the
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no one's in charge, no one's responsible,

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we need to get someone in from outside

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who can get things done.

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- Well that was the
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in the first place.

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Jim Spittle came from Tesco,

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Jin Sahota came from Technicolor

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and they implemented a supermarket style

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just in time system to save money,

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you could argue that's
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- Look, we need our own
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to come in and turn things around

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and I've been thinking
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he delivered the Olympics,

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I'm sure he can deliver
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- [Matt] Alright, Turkey, where are we at?

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- We've got three planes on the tarmac

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at RAF Brize Norton ready to go.

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- Okay, great.

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- The one problem is
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with the export permit from
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- Today I can announce
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a large delivery of PPE
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- Matt specifically said not to announce

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the Turkey shipment.

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- But we're trying to cover your backs,

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get something positive out
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and by the way you can tell Matt

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Boris spoke to Paul
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we're gonna announce tomorrow.

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- Dom wants us to fuck up
50 he can tell everyone

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how crap we are and he wants
everyone to be crap except him.

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- Well look maybe we get
Deighton to own Turkey,

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I mean he is the new tsar after all-

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- Yeah I don't think he's that stupid.

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Make sure you tell everyone
it was Downing Street

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that briefed out Turkey and not us.

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- Yeah, I have done.

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I'll see you in a bit.

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- [Reporter] The government has appointed

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the 2012 Olympics chief
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as PPE tsar.

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- Right, oh...

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Yeah red, hang on.

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There we go.

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-I think the appointment of Lord Deighton

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will give renewed drive and focus

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to really coordinate this...

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- Hello?

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- Pippa, it's Dave.

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Sorry to bother you on a Sunday.

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It's just I got a call from someone I know

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saying that he and his wife
just saw Dominic Cummings

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in Houghall Woods up here.

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- In Durham?

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- Yeah?
-Mum?

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Shh.

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But he was in London last week.

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- Yeah.

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1 thought you might wanna take a look.

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- Well when was he there?

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- [Dave] I got a call five minutes ago.

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Right,

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- [Child] Come on it's your go.

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- Okay, thanks.

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{telephone ringing)

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Hi Jeremy, it's Pippa.

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- Hi Pippa.

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- We've just had a tip
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might be wandering around Houghall Woods.

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No chance of you going
down there now is there?

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«It'll take me a little
while to get there

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but I'll get a photographer
there as quickly as I can.

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- Now will you play?

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- Yes, now I will play.

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- Excuse me gents, I'm from
the Daily Mirror newspaper,

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I don't suppose you've seen
this gentleman have you?

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-No, no.

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- Thank you for your time, cheers.

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- So the Mirror are asking
where Dom was yesterday.

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- What do you mean yesterday?

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- Was he in Durham or was he here?

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- Fuck's sake, not again.

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(telephone chimes)

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(phone buzzes)

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(Pippa sighs)

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- The Mirror is digging for stuff about us

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being in Durham during lockdown.

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- Has The Guardian gone away?

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- Seems to have.

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- Good.

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- [Reporter] A new testing
center opens at Chessington Zoo

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but the car park is empty.

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Staff say they're only averaging

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three or four tests per hour.

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- Right, well we pretty
much have a week to go,

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where are we at?

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- The good news is capacity's
pushing 40,000 tests per day.

267
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- Yeah, that's still not
even half way there, but...

268
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- Bad news is although capacity is 40,000,

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we're only actually doing around 20,000.

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- We need to meet this target.

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- After the uncertainty of the bug itself,

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we emerged from quarantine into the almost

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comical uncertainty of London lockdown.

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Queuing is a pain in the
arse and the most fun

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you'll have all day.

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Did you read my lockdown
article for The Spectator?

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- Yeah.

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- Was it okay?

279
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- Yeah.

280
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- I thought it might help.

281
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- Have you seen The Spectator today?

282
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- Strangely Jack, I don't have
much time to read magazines.

283
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- There's an article by Mary Wakefield

284
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about their self-isolation.

285
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- People are frightened and they're calm,

286
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it's spring and it's lockdown,
queuing is a pain in the arse

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and the most fun you'll have all day.

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- [Automation] One new message.

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- Hi, it's me again
about Dominic Cummings.

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Look, it's probably too late
now but a friend of mine

291
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said she saw him as well
in the woods near here.

292
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- [Matthew] That's great news.

293
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Was the same day you saw them?

294
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- No, it was the 19th.

295
00:13:05,610 --> 00:13:06,839
- Two weeks later?

296
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Can I talk to them?

297
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- No, they're very nervous.

298
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They don't want to be identified.

299
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So can you publish the story now?

300
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- [Matthew] Not if I can't speak to them.

301
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- But they spoke to me,
they're a second source.

302
00:13:18,250 --> 00:13:19,160
- Yeah absolutely.

303
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Where were they when they saw him?

304
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- They were walking in the woods

305
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and Cummings was there
and as they passed him

306
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he said something about how
beautiful the bluebells were.

307
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- He spoke to them?

308
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- [Caller] Yeah.

309
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(slow ominous music)

310
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- Good morning.

311
00:13:50,650 --> 00:13:52,288
Jeremy Armstrong from the
Daily Mirror Newspaper,

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we're just making some enquiries
about Dominic Cummings.

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Were you here last Sunday by any chance?

314
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- Well I'm here most Sundays.

315
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- Would you recognize Dominic Cummings?

316
00:13:59,370 --> 00:14:00,360
- Sorry to trouble you.

317
00:14:00,450 --> 00:14:01,963
Jeremy Armstrong from the
Daily Mirror Newspaper.

318
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Were you here last Sunday by any chance?

319
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-No.

320
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- Okay, thank you.

321
00:14:13,410 --> 00:14:15,845
- Thank you so much, you're
all very kind to see us off.

322
00:14:15,930 --> 00:14:16,726
Thank you.

323
00:14:16,810 --> 00:14:19,404
Don't get cold, take this rascal from me.

324
00:14:19,490 --> 00:14:21,481
I want to thank you all
for looking after us,

325
00:14:21,570 --> 00:14:26,565
you're very kind.

326
00:14:37,130 --> 00:14:39,041
- Welcome back Prime Minister.

327
00:14:39,130 --> 00:14:40,120
- Thank you.

328
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(Boris sighs)

329
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Home.

330
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Okay, right.

331
00:14:54,650 --> 00:14:56,721
This way, it's a left turn for you Dylan,

332
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left turn, Dylan, come on.

333
00:14:58,650 --> 00:14:59,526
- [Emily] Good morning Prime Minister.

334
00:14:59,610 --> 00:15:00,600
- Oh Emily, sorry, you wouldn't mind

335
00:15:00,690 --> 00:15:01,725
taking Dylan for a walk would you?

336
00:15:01,810 --> 00:15:03,084
- Yes of course Prime Minister, thank you.

337
00:15:03,170 --> 00:15:04,444
- You're probably gonna need that.

338
00:15:04,530 --> 00:15:07,727
Okay thank you, right okay, there we go.

339
00:15:07,810 --> 00:15:08,766
- Yes!

340
00:15:08,850 --> 00:15:12,286
(room cheering and applauding)

341
00:15:12,370 --> 00:15:13,519
Good to have you back.

342
00:15:13,610 --> 00:15:16,250
- You are too kind, thank you.

343
00:15:16,330 --> 00:15:20,449
If this virus were a physical assailant...

344
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- We have got to announce on Friday

345
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that we have carried out 100,000 tests

346
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in the previous 24 hours.

347
00:15:40,210 --> 00:15:42,360
- Yeah and I think we need to focus on

348
00:15:42,450 --> 00:15:45,886
having the capacity to do 100,000.

349
00:15:45,970 --> 00:15:47,529
- Alright well have we got the capacity?

350
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- We're maybe 20,000 short.

351
00:15:49,130 --> 00:15:52,680
- Yeah well we cannot be 20,000 short.

352
00:15:52,770 --> 00:15:54,727
- We could include the antibody tests

353
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as well as the PCR tests.

354
00:15:56,370 --> 00:15:57,166
- Yeah and where would that get us?

355
00:15:57,250 --> 00:15:58,046
- Nearer.

356
00:15:58,130 --> 00:15:59,882
- Well what about the home testing kits?

357
00:15:59,970 --> 00:16:01,005
- We're already counting those.

358
00:16:01,090 --> 00:16:01,886
- Yeah but we're counting them

359
00:16:01,970 --> 00:16:03,244
when the test results come in.

360
00:16:03,330 --> 00:16:04,126
- Yeah.

361
00:16:04,210 --> 00:16:05,689
- Well if we counted them
when they were sent out,

362
00:16:05,770 --> 00:16:07,886
then that would boost
the numbers wouldn't it?

363
00:16:07,970 --> 00:16:09,040
- Yeah.

364
00:16:09,130 --> 00:16:12,327
Very good, that is it, that is it.

365
00:16:15,810 --> 00:16:19,041
- I like the word restart,
I think that's hopeful.

366
00:16:19,130 --> 00:16:20,165
- No it suggests failure.

367
00:16:20,250 --> 00:16:22,924
You restart a computer
after it's fucked up.

368
00:16:23,010 --> 00:16:25,923
- But what are we telling
them, to go out or to stay in?

369
00:16:26,010 --> 00:16:27,728
- Getting back to normal?

370
00:16:27,810 --> 00:16:31,769
- No not normal, it's
a step towards normal.

371
00:16:31,850 --> 00:16:34,410
- Do we even wanna go back to normal?

372
00:16:34,490 --> 00:16:36,128
Don't we wanna suggest that the new world

373
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might just be better than the old?

374
00:16:37,570 --> 00:16:38,401
-No.

375
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(Boris sighs)

376
00:16:47,170 --> 00:16:48,888
- Are you alright Prime Minister?

377
00:16:48,970 --> 00:16:49,801
- Yeah I'm good, I'm good.

378
00:16:49,890 --> 00:16:51,881
Yeah just overdid it a bit, yeah.

379
00:17:02,130 --> 00:17:03,484
- Oh shit.

380
00:17:03,570 --> 00:17:04,401
- [Boris] What is it?

381
00:17:04,490 --> 00:17:07,084
- I think my water's just broken.

382
00:17:07,170 --> 00:17:08,888
- Well, shall I call the doctor?

383
00:17:08,970 --> 00:17:10,563
-No I don't need a doctor, I need my mum.

384
00:17:10,650 --> 00:17:12,482
- [Boris] Have you had any contractions?

385
00:17:12,570 --> 00:17:14,288
- Yeah, I dunno, I think...

386
00:17:14,370 --> 00:17:16,566
No, I haven't, I think
they were Braxton Hicks.

387
00:17:16,650 --> 00:17:18,482
- Mm okay.

388
00:17:18,570 --> 00:17:19,401
Okay.

389
00:17:21,770 --> 00:17:25,047
I'm gonna head down if you...

390
00:17:25,130 --> 00:17:25,961
- Alright fine.

391
00:17:26,050 --> 00:17:27,120
- [Boris] Alright bye!

392
00:17:27,210 --> 00:17:28,120
- Bye, bye.

393
00:17:29,890 --> 00:17:31,688
- I believe that the pandemic has exposed

394
00:17:31,770 --> 00:17:33,886
systemic weaknesses in our government,

395
00:17:33,970 --> 00:17:36,849
complex systems like
government need to employ

396
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the best cognitive technologies.

397
00:17:39,210 --> 00:17:41,645
I wrote about the need
to make decisions fast

398
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during a crisis in my blog.

399
00:17:43,690 --> 00:17:44,725
- Yes, yes I read it.

400
00:17:46,090 --> 00:17:47,444
Coffee?

401
00:17:47,530 --> 00:17:51,125
- We need seeing rooms
rather than cabinet rooms,

402
00:17:51,210 --> 00:17:54,601
we need dynamic tools to see
deeper into complex systems,

403
00:17:54,690 --> 00:17:58,445
to see across time and
see across possibilities,

404
00:17:58,530 --> 00:18:01,090
thus making it easier to
work with reliable knowledge

405
00:18:01,170 --> 00:18:03,559
and interactive quantitative models.

406
00:18:04,970 --> 00:18:08,008
- What does that actually
mean in practice?

407
00:18:09,290 --> 00:18:13,204
- Well one thing it means
is that the cabinet office

408
00:18:13,290 --> 00:18:15,850
needs to be responsible
directly to Number 10.

409
00:18:15,930 --> 00:18:16,840
- We are already.

410
00:18:16,930 --> 00:18:18,887
- There has been a failure
to have a coherent,

411
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effective response to the pandemic

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00:18:21,330 --> 00:18:24,243
and a failure to have
prepared for the pandemic,

413
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this is something I've
written about before.

414
00:18:25,770 --> 00:18:27,727
- We had assessed the risk of a pandemic

415
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and there were recommendations as to

416
00:18:29,010 --> 00:18:29,841
how to mitigate the impact.

417
00:18:29,930 --> 00:18:31,079
- Which were not acted upon.

418
00:18:31,170 --> 00:18:33,844
- No, because the government's
priority was saving money.

419
00:18:33,930 --> 00:18:36,001
It's the government's responsibility,
not the civil service.

420
00:18:36,090 --> 00:18:38,161
- You want to maintain the status quo.

421
00:18:38,250 --> 00:18:40,127
- Well in my opinion one of
the problems that we have

422
00:18:40,210 --> 00:18:42,963
is that we have a whole
class of special advisors

423
00:18:43,050 --> 00:18:44,529
who don't trust the civil service.

424
00:18:44,610 --> 00:18:45,406
- Like me?

425
00:18:45,490 --> 00:18:47,288
- Well yes, to be blunt.

426
00:18:47,370 --> 00:18:50,761
Advisors who are in the main
ex-journalists or activists

427
00:18:50,850 --> 00:18:53,160
who have no experience of
delivering or managing,

428
00:18:53,250 --> 00:18:56,083
whose expertise is in PR or campaigning,

429
00:18:56,170 --> 00:18:59,003
whose interest is in eye catching phrases

430
00:18:59,090 --> 00:19:00,842
or promises or arguments,

431
00:19:00,930 --> 00:19:02,887
they're used to being on the outside

432
00:19:02,970 --> 00:19:05,166
lobbing bombs and bricks
through the windows

433
00:19:05,250 --> 00:19:06,729
rather than being on the inside

434
00:19:06,810 --> 00:19:10,326
engaging with the boring
problems of how to deliver

435
00:19:10,410 --> 00:19:11,889
ata local level day in, day out.

436
00:19:11,970 --> 00:19:14,644
- The Civil Service is
programmed to be dysfunctional,

437
00:19:14,730 --> 00:19:17,290
it excludes the most able people.

438
00:19:17,370 --> 00:19:19,122
- Look at the special
advisors you've appointed,

439
00:19:19,210 --> 00:19:20,803
do you honestly think they're more capable

440
00:19:20,890 --> 00:19:22,119
than the Civil Servants we have here?

441
00:19:22,210 --> 00:19:23,723
- Actually yes, I do.

442
00:19:23,810 --> 00:19:25,323
- We have a rigorous selection process

443
00:19:25,410 --> 00:19:27,720
on the basis of ability,
not political opinion.

444
00:19:27,810 --> 00:19:29,562
You know people have worked
here for 20 or 30 years

445
00:19:29,650 --> 00:19:31,527
delivering complex programs
to all governments-

446
00:19:31,610 --> 00:19:33,248
- 20 to 30 years, exactly.

447
00:19:33,330 --> 00:19:36,049
- Well I've read your
blogs and your criticisms

448
00:19:36,130 --> 00:19:37,564
of the Civil Service and
of the Civil Servants,

449
00:19:37,650 --> 00:19:39,209
you obviously despise us.

450
00:19:39,290 --> 00:19:42,248
Maybe that contempt leads to
a bad working relationship.

451
00:19:43,650 --> 00:19:46,085
I mean imagine a new
manager coming into a club,

452
00:19:46,170 --> 00:19:47,649
let's say José Mourinho at Tottenham

453
00:19:47,730 --> 00:19:49,050
and imagine he spent years saying how

454
00:19:49,130 --> 00:19:52,088
every player in the club,
every coach, the chairman,

455
00:19:52,170 --> 00:19:55,162
all of them are lazy and
venal and incompetent

456
00:19:55,250 --> 00:19:56,206
and imagine he then arrives

457
00:19:56,290 --> 00:19:58,042
and has to work with these people.

458
00:19:58,130 --> 00:20:00,246
I mean you wouldn't
expect it to be a success,

459
00:20:00,330 --> 00:20:02,207
you'd want to clear them all out,

460
00:20:02,290 --> 00:20:04,645
but what if he couldn't
clear them all out?

461
00:20:04,730 --> 00:20:07,290
- He would be given the
authority to clear them out

462
00:20:08,730 --> 00:20:10,243
or he wouldn't go to the club.

463
00:20:13,170 --> 00:20:14,968
- Right tests, how we doing?

464
00:20:15,050 --> 00:20:17,166
- We're getting closer by
counting the home tests,

465
00:20:17,250 --> 00:20:18,365
we're almost there.

466
00:20:18,450 --> 00:20:20,043
- Well almost isn't good enough.

467
00:20:20,130 --> 00:20:22,519
- We could sort of delay
sending out the tests today

468
00:20:22,610 --> 00:20:24,806
and tomorrow and send
more out on Thursday,

469
00:20:24,890 --> 00:20:27,245
it could get us over the line.
- So, can you manage that?

470
00:20:27,330 --> 00:20:29,321
- [Chris] Well, we could try.

471
00:20:29,410 --> 00:20:32,289
(Carrie screaming)

472
00:20:32,370 --> 00:20:34,202
- Oh, are you alright?

473
00:20:35,250 --> 00:20:37,161
- I think I need to go to hospital.

474
00:20:37,250 --> 00:20:38,126
- Oh, we have lift off?

475
00:20:38,210 --> 00:20:40,121
-I hope so because
this is fucking painful.

476
00:20:40,210 --> 00:20:41,803
- And how often are the contractions?

477
00:20:41,890 --> 00:20:42,800
- I don't know, I haven't timed them.

478
00:20:42,890 --> 00:20:44,210
- And how dilated are you?

479
00:20:44,290 --> 00:20:45,849
-I don't know.
- Well shall I take a look?

480
00:20:45,930 --> 00:20:46,726
- No, call the fucking hospital!

481
00:20:46,810 --> 00:20:49,086
- Right okay, absolutely, will do.

482
00:20:51,290 --> 00:20:52,564
- Oh my God.

483
00:20:52,650 --> 00:20:53,481
Oh my God.

484
00:21:05,170 --> 00:21:07,127
- Here we go, are we in the right place?

485
00:21:07,210 --> 00:21:08,166
- Hello Carrie.

486
00:21:08,250 --> 00:21:09,240
Hello Prime Minister.

487
00:21:09,330 --> 00:21:10,604
- It's Boris tonight, Boris.

488
00:21:10,690 --> 00:21:11,486
-Oh.

489
00:21:11,570 --> 00:21:13,049
I'm Beryl.

490
00:21:13,130 --> 00:21:14,040
- Is that helping?

491
00:21:14,130 --> 00:21:15,165
- Yeah I think so.

492
00:21:15,250 --> 00:21:17,969
- Yeah that's what they taught
us in the old NCT classes.

493
00:21:18,050 --> 00:21:18,846
- Oh yeah?

494
00:21:18,930 --> 00:21:21,524
Surprised you can remember, 20 years ago.

495
00:21:21,610 --> 00:21:23,760
- Oh no it's like riding
a bike, you never forget.

496
00:21:23,850 --> 00:21:24,646
- Good to know.

497
00:21:28,930 --> 00:21:30,284
- 0h, God!

498
00:21:30,370 --> 00:21:32,327
No, I should...

499
00:21:33,290 --> 00:21:35,088
Do I need to count, shall I count them or-

500
00:21:35,170 --> 00:21:35,966
-No!

501
00:21:36,050 --> 00:21:37,768
- Alright, okay yeah, great, great.

502
00:21:44,050 --> 00:21:44,846
You want a sandwich?

503
00:21:44,930 --> 00:21:45,726
-No.

504
00:21:46,810 --> 00:21:47,606
- You sure?

505
00:21:47,690 --> 00:21:48,680
- Oh yeah.

506
00:21:48,770 --> 00:21:50,488
- Good, good Carrie.

507
00:21:50,570 --> 00:21:52,527
Breathe through it, breathe through it,

508
00:21:53,850 --> 00:21:56,808
resist the urge to push
and another deep breath.

509
00:21:56,890 --> 00:21:59,040
Don't push, just breathing, breathing,

510
00:21:59,130 --> 00:22:00,359
breathing with me Carrie.

511
00:22:01,930 --> 00:22:03,079
- Doing really well.

512
00:22:03,170 --> 00:22:03,966
- Good, good!

513
00:22:04,050 --> 00:22:06,564
Just a little push, just a
little push, okay it's coming.

514
00:22:06,650 --> 00:22:10,530
Just give me a little
push, just a little one.

515
00:22:10,610 --> 00:22:11,839
Good, good, oh.

516
00:22:17,250 --> 00:22:18,570
There.

517
00:22:18,650 --> 00:22:19,526
- Oh, hi.

518
00:22:19,610 --> 00:22:24,605
Hi, oh my God.

519
00:22:25,090 --> 00:22:26,524
- A beautiful baby boy.

520
00:22:26,610 --> 00:22:27,441
- Hi.

521
00:22:29,450 --> 00:22:30,440
- Well done.

522
00:22:34,170 --> 00:22:35,763
- [Carrie] Hi.

523
00:22:35,850 --> 00:22:38,000
- [Dominic] From today,
we're moving to improve

524
00:22:38,090 --> 00:22:41,048
daily reporting system for deaths.

525
00:22:41,130 --> 00:22:42,120
- Ready to go PM?

526
00:22:42,210 --> 00:22:44,281
- Yes, back to work Gazza.

527
00:22:44,370 --> 00:22:46,088
- Oh by the way, the
Palace says you can run

528
00:22:46,170 --> 00:22:47,126
in their grounds if you like.

529
00:22:47,210 --> 00:22:48,609
- Well that's very nice of Maj...

530
00:22:48,690 --> 00:22:52,809
- We recorded an additional
3,811 deaths in total.

531
00:22:52,890 --> 00:22:55,279
- Well thank you, thank
you, thank you so much.

532
00:22:55,370 --> 00:22:56,724
It went very very well, very well.

533
00:22:56,810 --> 00:22:58,448
She pushed it out like a trooper.

534
00:22:59,370 --> 00:23:00,166
Hello.

535
00:23:00,250 --> 00:23:02,366
- [Reporter] The race
is on to find a vaccine

536
00:23:02,450 --> 00:23:03,963
to fight the virus.

537
00:23:04,050 --> 00:23:07,406
Today, AstraZeneca and the
Jenner Institute at Oxford

538
00:23:07,490 --> 00:23:09,766
announced a new deal to work together

539
00:23:09,850 --> 00:23:12,080
to try and fast track the roll out

540
00:23:12,170 --> 00:23:14,559
of their potential Covid-19 vaccine.

541
00:23:34,530 --> 00:23:36,282
- He has a lot of hair hasn't he?

542
00:23:36,370 --> 00:23:37,405
- Well yeah he takes after Boris.

543
00:23:37,490 --> 00:23:39,003
- That's right, yes exactly.

544
00:23:40,570 --> 00:23:42,322
- What's his name?

545
00:23:42,410 --> 00:23:44,720
- Wilfred Laurie Nicholas.

546
00:23:44,810 --> 00:23:46,528
- [Mother] Aww, nice.

547
00:23:46,610 --> 00:23:47,930
- Yeah, after the two grandads.

548
00:23:48,010 --> 00:23:51,162
- And Nicholas after two doctors.

549
00:23:51,250 --> 00:23:53,810
- So what will you actually call him?

550
00:23:53,890 --> 00:23:55,847
- We're not sure yet are we?

551
00:23:55,930 --> 00:23:56,726
-No.

552
00:23:56,810 --> 00:23:58,483
- No, not yet so...

553
00:23:58,570 --> 00:24:01,801
- It's terrible not being able
to come and see him properly.

554
00:24:01,890 --> 00:24:02,925
Give him a hug.

555
00:24:03,010 --> 00:24:04,762
- [Carrie] Yes, and change a nappy.

556
00:24:05,970 --> 00:24:07,119
- Yes.

557
00:24:07,210 --> 00:24:09,406
- The old team back together again.

558
00:24:09,490 --> 00:24:10,286
Good to see you boys.

559
00:24:10,370 --> 00:24:11,644
- Good to see you Prime Minister.

560
00:24:11,730 --> 00:24:12,765
- Congratulations on your baby.

561
00:24:12,850 --> 00:24:13,806
- Oh thank you so much.

562
00:24:13,890 --> 00:24:15,164
Well, shall we?

563
00:24:15,250 --> 00:24:17,526
Once more unto the breach dear friends.

564
00:24:17,610 --> 00:24:21,490
And so I can confirm
today for the first time

565
00:24:21,570 --> 00:24:25,006
that we are past the peak of this disease,

566
00:24:25,090 --> 00:24:29,049
we are past the peak and we
are on the downward slope.

567
00:24:29,130 --> 00:24:30,040
- [Reporter] The people
were out in the street

568
00:24:30,130 --> 00:24:33,486
again last night but the
death toll continues to rise

569
00:24:33,570 --> 00:24:35,800
as the government faces questions

570
00:24:35,890 --> 00:24:37,847
about its handling of the crisis.

571
00:24:39,370 --> 00:24:42,123
(Wilfred crying)

572
00:25:09,730 --> 00:25:12,119
- [Doctor] How are you
this morning, Aisha?

573
00:25:12,210 --> 00:25:13,325
- [Aisha] Not good.

574
00:25:13,410 --> 00:25:17,290
- Look you've heen on this
therapy now for 48 hours,

575
00:25:17,370 --> 00:25:19,327
we don't wanna see you intubated do we?

576
00:25:20,330 --> 00:25:22,765
So look, I can start you on a trial,

577
00:25:22,850 --> 00:25:25,444
you'll be given one of
a series of four drugs

578
00:25:25,530 --> 00:25:28,363
which might help, it might be a placebo.

579
00:25:29,370 --> 00:25:31,088
How do you feel about
that? Do you wanna try?

580
00:25:35,210 --> 00:25:36,006
- Well?

581
00:25:36,850 --> 00:25:40,161
- We have requests for
more than 30,000 home tests

582
00:25:40,250 --> 00:25:43,447
so when Amazon send them
out we will technically

583
00:25:43,530 --> 00:25:45,806
get over the line of 100,000 capacity.

584
00:25:49,170 --> 00:25:50,285
- Excellent, good job.

585
00:25:50,370 --> 00:25:51,963
- [Speaker] But that does mean we'll drop

586
00:25:52,050 --> 00:25:53,324
below that margin tomorrow.

587
00:25:53,410 --> 00:25:55,447
- We can worry about that tomorrow.

588
00:25:55,530 --> 00:25:59,000
At the beginning of
last month I set a goal.

589
00:25:59,090 --> 00:26:03,288
I can announce that we have met our goal,

590
00:26:03,370 --> 00:26:06,965
the number of tests yesterday
on the last day of April

591
00:26:07,930 --> 00:26:10,046
was 122,347.

592
00:26:13,370 --> 00:26:15,008
- Well that's very convenient.

593
00:26:15,090 --> 00:26:17,525
-I know, last day of April, it's lucky.

594
00:26:17,610 --> 00:26:19,726
- It's quite a wide reaching trial.

595
00:26:19,810 --> 00:26:21,209
- What will she be having?

596
00:26:21,290 --> 00:26:23,406
- It'll be a drug or a placebo

597
00:26:23,490 --> 00:26:26,289
but it could really help Aisha's recovery.

598
00:26:26,370 --> 00:26:28,646
She'd also be helping future patients

599
00:26:28,730 --> 00:26:30,528
by being part of this trial.

600
00:26:30,610 --> 00:26:33,045
- Beta, is it what you want?

601
00:26:36,090 --> 00:26:37,000
- Okay.

602
00:26:37,090 --> 00:26:39,286
Okay you have our permission.

603
00:26:39,370 --> 00:26:41,759
- [Reporter] The Nightingale
Hospital in East London

604
00:26:41,850 --> 00:26:42,999
is to close.

605
00:26:43,090 --> 00:26:45,127
The hospital, which opened
on the 3rd of April,

606
00:26:45,210 --> 00:26:50,205
has 4,000 beds but has only
had 54 patients in total.

607
00:26:50,650 --> 00:26:53,244
The 12 patients being
treated there at the moment

608
00:26:53,330 --> 00:26:56,527
are being transferred to
other London hospitals.

609
00:26:56,610 --> 00:26:58,806
- [Reporter] The United
Kingdom has overtaken Italy

610
00:26:58,890 --> 00:27:01,200
to report the highest official death toll

611
00:27:01,290 --> 00:27:03,327
from the new Coronavirus in Europe,

612
00:27:03,410 --> 00:27:06,163
increasing pressure on
Prime Minister Boris Johnson

613
00:27:06,250 --> 00:27:08,400
over his response to the crisis.

614
00:27:08,490 --> 00:27:11,209
- Professor Neil Ferguson has
quit as a government advisor

615
00:27:11,290 --> 00:27:13,645
on Coronavirus after admitting breaking

616
00:27:13,730 --> 00:27:16,324
the very rules he helped introduce.

617
00:27:16,410 --> 00:27:17,764
- I'm speechless.

618
00:27:17,850 --> 00:27:20,603
Yes, I think it is
absolutely the right decision

619
00:27:20,690 --> 00:27:22,328
that he resign.

620
00:27:22,410 --> 00:27:24,924
I mean I'm not allowed to get involved

621
00:27:25,010 --> 00:27:27,729
in the operational
decisions of police matters.

622
00:27:27,810 --> 00:27:30,609
- So when Matt Hancock said
there were 100,000 tests

623
00:27:30,690 --> 00:27:31,521
that had been done,

624
00:27:31,610 --> 00:27:34,921
actually 40,000 of those
tests were postal tests.

625
00:27:35,010 --> 00:27:37,445
- So how many tests did they do?

626
00:27:37,530 --> 00:27:38,565
- We just don't know.

627
00:27:38,650 --> 00:27:41,403
- But yesterday we learned, tragically,

628
00:27:41,490 --> 00:27:45,961
that at least 29,427 people in the UK

629
00:27:46,050 --> 00:27:49,281
have now lost their lives
to this dreadful virus.

630
00:27:50,130 --> 00:27:52,201
That's now the highest number in Europe.

631
00:27:52,290 --> 00:27:54,327
The UK was slow into lockdown,

632
00:27:54,410 --> 00:27:57,482
slow on testing, slow on tracing,

633
00:27:57,570 --> 00:27:59,880
and slow on the supply
of protective equipment.

634
00:28:02,130 --> 00:28:02,926
- What a cunt.

635
00:28:05,650 --> 00:28:07,800
- [Reporter] As the Red
Arrows fly over London

636
00:28:07,890 --> 00:28:11,281
to celebrate the 75th
anniversary of VE Day,

637
00:28:11,370 --> 00:28:15,000
the British people are once
again facing a deadly enemy,

638
00:28:15,090 --> 00:28:17,161
this time, the Coronavirus.

639
00:28:17,250 --> 00:28:19,810
- And when I look at our country today

640
00:28:19,890 --> 00:28:22,848
and see what we are
willing to do to protect

641
00:28:22,930 --> 00:28:24,364
and support one another,

642
00:28:24,450 --> 00:28:27,920
I say with pride that
we are still a nation

643
00:28:28,010 --> 00:28:30,923
those brave soldiers, sailors and airmen

644
00:28:31,010 --> 00:28:34,082
would recognize and admire.

645
00:28:34,170 --> 00:28:37,481
(Wilfred crying)

646
00:28:37,570 --> 00:28:38,366
- It's your turn.

647
00:28:38,450 --> 00:28:39,246
- What?

648
00:29:06,090 --> 00:29:08,127
- [Lee] So we have the new slogan.

649
00:29:12,610 --> 00:29:13,645
- Stay alert.

650
00:29:15,210 --> 00:29:16,200
Really, stay alert?

651
00:29:17,530 --> 00:29:19,168
- You see the problem is that,

652
00:29:19,250 --> 00:29:21,241
because our plan is to
gradually relax the rules

653
00:29:21,330 --> 00:29:23,890
and our messaging just,
by its very nature,

654
00:29:23,970 --> 00:29:25,085
has to be kind of vague.

655
00:29:25,170 --> 00:29:27,605
Now stay at home, that was
great because it's simple

656
00:29:27,690 --> 00:29:30,250
and it's static but well
now we're telling everyone

657
00:29:30,330 --> 00:29:32,480
to exercise more now but then next week

658
00:29:32,570 --> 00:29:34,880
go to a garden center
and then maybe go to work

659
00:29:34,970 --> 00:29:36,244
if you can but don't if you can't.

660
00:29:36,330 --> 00:29:37,650
- We have focus grouped it.

661
00:29:47,290 --> 00:29:50,282
- Quarantine for people
who arriving from abroad?

662
00:29:50,370 --> 00:29:52,566
- Yes, well there was an
argument for quarantine

663
00:29:52,650 --> 00:29:53,446
in the early stages.

664
00:29:53,530 --> 00:29:56,283
We don't believe that it
makes sense to quarantine now

665
00:29:56,370 --> 00:29:57,690
unless it's from specific areas

666
00:29:57,770 --> 00:29:59,283
with a very high amount of covid.

667
00:29:59,370 --> 00:30:01,202
- People know that the
virus came here from abroad,

668
00:30:01,290 --> 00:30:02,519
they wanna know it's
not gonna happen again.

669
00:30:02,610 --> 00:30:04,681
- Statistically Dom, it makes little sense

670
00:30:04,770 --> 00:30:06,443
to quarantine from a country
with a lower rate of covid

671
00:30:06,530 --> 00:30:08,009
than we have.

672
00:30:08,090 --> 00:30:09,125
- We have focus grouped this.

673
00:30:09,210 --> 00:30:11,360
People don't want their
sacrifices to be wasted.

674
00:30:11,450 --> 00:30:14,408
If we have one death
arising from the arrival

675
00:30:14,490 --> 00:30:16,845
of someone from Italy, we will be blamed.

676
00:30:16,930 --> 00:30:18,762
- Yeah, I thought we were
being led by the science

677
00:30:18,850 --> 00:30:20,170
and not by focus groups?

678
00:30:21,450 --> 00:30:23,839
- Itis now almost two months

679
00:30:23,930 --> 00:30:26,285
since the people of this country began

680
00:30:26,370 --> 00:30:28,930
to put up with restrictions
on their freedom.

681
00:30:29,010 --> 00:30:29,841
- Oh shit.

682
00:30:31,130 --> 00:30:32,928
- Okay again yeah.

683
00:30:33,010 --> 00:30:33,806
It is now...

684
00:30:33,890 --> 00:30:36,723
(phone vibrating)

685
00:30:37,810 --> 00:30:40,040
Yeah, yeah I'm in the middle of filming.

686
00:30:40,130 --> 00:30:41,529
Well you'll find out tonight.

687
00:30:41,610 --> 00:30:42,600
I know you're a cabinet minister,

688
00:30:42,690 --> 00:30:45,000
1 don't have fucking Alzheimer's.

689
00:30:45,090 --> 00:30:46,569
Well watch the broadcast tonight

690
00:30:46,650 --> 00:30:49,847
then you'll know what the
policy is like everybody else.

691
00:30:49,930 --> 00:30:52,001
I say, well what are you gonna do, resign?

692
00:30:53,050 --> 00:30:54,370
Stay alert Gazza!

693
00:30:54,450 --> 00:30:56,521
Stay a-fucking-lert!

694
00:30:56,610 --> 00:30:57,805
Right!

695
00:30:57,890 --> 00:30:58,846
Where were we?

696
00:31:03,570 --> 00:31:05,447
«1am concerned ahout
the lack of transparency

697
00:31:05,530 --> 00:31:06,929
in recent spending.

698
00:31:07,010 --> 00:31:09,684
Contracts with Public First
to bring in Gabriel Milland,

699
00:31:09,770 --> 00:31:11,761
with Topham Guerin to bring in Ben Guerin.

700
00:31:11,850 --> 00:31:13,284
I mean the appointment of Ben Warner's

701
00:31:13,370 --> 00:31:15,600
brother's company Faculty
to do data management.

702
00:31:15,690 --> 00:31:18,125
- We appointed people we
trust, the best people.

703
00:31:18,210 --> 00:31:20,599
- We're taking about hundreds
of millions of pounds

704
00:31:20,690 --> 00:31:24,445
being spent on consultancy
firms with no open competition.

705
00:31:24,530 --> 00:31:27,249
This could just look
like jobs for the boys.

706
00:31:27,330 --> 00:31:28,843
-I just thought you'd like to know,

707
00:31:28,930 --> 00:31:30,807
The Mirror want to talk to me.

708
00:31:30,890 --> 00:31:31,686
- What?

709
00:31:31,770 --> 00:31:33,169
- They've heard that Cummings was up here

710
00:31:33,250 --> 00:31:35,605
and somebody must've told
them that I'd seen him.

711
00:31:35,690 --> 00:31:38,762
- I promise you we will
get this story out, please.

712
00:31:38,850 --> 00:31:41,683
- Look, I told you almost a
month ago that I'd seen him

713
00:31:41,770 --> 00:31:43,522
and you've done absolutely nothing.

714
00:31:43,610 --> 00:31:44,930
Can you not speak to The Mirror?

715
00:31:45,010 --> 00:31:46,364
They must have a source.

716
00:31:46,450 --> 00:31:49,329
- [Reporter] Rishi Sunak today
announced the continuation

717
00:31:49,410 --> 00:31:51,048
of the furlough scheme.

718
00:31:51,130 --> 00:31:52,040
- Hello Pippa, how are you?

719
00:31:52,130 --> 00:31:54,883
- So, a collaboration?

720
00:31:54,970 --> 00:31:55,960
- Cooperation.

721
00:31:56,050 --> 00:31:57,961
- We'll need some clear ground rules.

722
00:31:58,050 --> 00:31:59,199
- [Speaker] Of course.

723
00:31:59,290 --> 00:32:00,928
- I'l have to talk to my bosses.

724
00:32:02,010 --> 00:32:02,806
- Thank you.

725
00:32:02,890 --> 00:32:04,801
- The Equality and Human Rights Commission

726
00:32:04,890 --> 00:32:08,326
has said it's deeply concerned
by potential breaches

727
00:32:08,410 --> 00:32:10,401
in the human rights of the elderly.

728
00:32:10,490 --> 00:32:13,448
The government's strategy
has been to protect the NHS

729
00:32:13,530 --> 00:32:14,759
from being overwhelmed,

730
00:32:14,850 --> 00:32:17,603
but at what cost to Britain's care homes?

731
00:32:18,730 --> 00:32:20,767
- Yeah so we call our source ABBA.

732
00:32:20,850 --> 00:32:22,204
- Alright, what are they like?

733
00:32:22,290 --> 00:32:25,089
- They're great, very detailed,
very precise, very together.

734
00:32:25,170 --> 00:32:26,683
What's Bluebell like?

735
00:32:26,770 --> 00:32:27,566
- Bluebell?

736
00:32:27,650 --> 00:32:28,879
- Sorry, my name for them.

737
00:32:28,970 --> 00:32:30,688
It's because of Cummings
talking about the bluebells.

738
00:32:30,770 --> 00:32:32,169
- How'd you know that?

739
00:32:32,250 --> 00:32:34,366
- Your source is a friend of my source.

740
00:32:34,450 --> 00:32:35,485
- [Pippa] Oh right.

741
00:32:35,570 --> 00:32:36,640
- [Matthew] What are they like?

742
00:32:36,730 --> 00:32:41,645
- Well to be honest, we haven't
talked to them directly.

743
00:32:41,730 --> 00:32:44,119
- What you haven't, but
someone at The Mirror has?

744
00:32:44,210 --> 00:32:47,601
- No, they were too nervous
about being identified.

745
00:32:49,810 --> 00:32:52,450
- Surely you must have
the scientific evidence,

746
00:32:52,530 --> 00:32:54,760
you're able to tell me
the base underpinning

747
00:32:54,850 --> 00:32:58,081
the department's decision to
reopen schools for reception.

748
00:32:58,170 --> 00:33:00,241
- That was not a departmental decision.

749
00:33:01,690 --> 00:33:05,160
That was a cabinet decision.

750
00:33:06,210 --> 00:33:07,609
- So The Mail are running with a story

751
00:33:07,690 --> 00:33:10,045
that our school reopening
plans are in chaos.

752
00:33:10,130 --> 00:33:11,165
- Well that's rubbish.

753
00:33:11,250 --> 00:33:13,685
- Not surprising really
given the scientific office's

754
00:33:13,770 --> 00:33:15,363
performance at the Select Committee.

755
00:33:15,450 --> 00:33:17,282
- His statement was factually accurate.

756
00:33:17,370 --> 00:33:18,326
- It was idiotic.

757
00:33:18,410 --> 00:33:21,641
- It was correct in saying
that it was a cabinet decision.

758
00:33:21,730 --> 00:33:25,086
(Wilfred crying)

759
00:33:25,170 --> 00:33:26,160
- Il go.

760
00:33:26,250 --> 00:33:28,844
- No, I will, I wasn't asleep.

761
00:33:36,770 --> 00:33:38,522
Ithink he's hungry.

762
00:33:38,610 --> 00:33:39,930
- Oh no, no, no I'll go.

763
00:33:40,010 --> 00:33:42,809
You get some sleep love, come on.

764
00:33:42,890 --> 00:33:43,800
Okay, okay.

765
00:33:54,930 --> 00:33:56,329
- [Source] We don't want any publicity.

766
00:33:56,410 --> 00:33:57,969
- Well I don't know your names,

767
00:33:58,050 --> 00:34:00,246
so there is no way anyone
can find out from us

768
00:34:00,330 --> 00:34:03,209
and you're sure it was Dominic Cummings?

769
00:34:03,290 --> 00:34:04,121
- [Source] Yes.

770
00:34:04,210 --> 00:34:05,006
- [Pippa] Was he alone?

771
00:34:05,090 --> 00:34:06,364
- [Source] No, he was with his wife.

772
00:34:06,450 --> 00:34:08,248
I assume it was his wife, a woman anyway.

773
00:34:08,330 --> 00:34:09,729
We passed them on the path.

774
00:34:09,810 --> 00:34:12,370
Cummings said something about
the bluebells looking lovely.

775
00:34:12,450 --> 00:34:13,565
- We heard the recording.

776
00:34:13,650 --> 00:34:15,880
We all agree the story seems good

777
00:34:15,970 --> 00:34:18,325
but we can't publish without
knowing who bluebell is.

778
00:34:18,410 --> 00:34:19,889
- Yeah, I agree.

779
00:34:19,970 --> 00:34:22,689
- The relationship between Dom and Sedwill

780
00:34:22,770 --> 00:34:25,000
is at breaking point I believe.

781
00:34:25,090 --> 00:34:27,081
Mark believes Dom is
trying to push him out

782
00:34:27,170 --> 00:34:29,047
and effectively take control
of the Civil Service.

783
00:34:29,130 --> 00:34:31,804
- Well okay so, what, is there a solution?

784
00:34:31,890 --> 00:34:34,200
- I think it would be extremely
disruptive to lose Mark now.

785
00:34:34,290 --> 00:34:35,519
- Is he threatening to go?

786
00:34:35,610 --> 00:34:37,442
- We're already facing Philip Rutnam

787
00:34:37,530 --> 00:34:39,441
suing for constructive dismissal,

788
00:34:39,530 --> 00:34:41,885
Dom wants to get rid of Simon
McDonald at the Foreign Office

789
00:34:41,970 --> 00:34:43,449
after his Select Committee performance

790
00:34:43,530 --> 00:34:45,123
and there are issues at
the Justice Department too.

791
00:34:45,210 --> 00:34:47,008
- Well yeah but Dom wants us to transform

792
00:34:47,090 --> 00:34:48,649
the way we govern so
you know he'll always-

793
00:34:48,730 --> 00:34:50,641
- But I don't believe that losing the head

794
00:34:50,730 --> 00:34:52,846
of the Civil Service in
the middle of this crisis

795
00:34:52,930 --> 00:34:55,001
is in the country's best interests.

796
00:34:55,090 --> 00:34:57,969
- I love Dom but you know
he's not a chief executive,

797
00:34:58,050 --> 00:35:02,203
he's not a manager, he's an ideas man.

798
00:35:04,730 --> 00:35:06,880
- [Speaker] Does the Prime
Minister think that it's right

799
00:35:06,970 --> 00:35:09,484
that care workers coming from abroad

800
00:35:09,570 --> 00:35:12,881
and working on our front
line should have to pay

801
00:35:12,970 --> 00:35:17,203
a surcharge of hundreds,
sometimes thousands of pounds,

802
00:35:17,290 --> 00:35:19,679
to use the NHS themselves?

803
00:35:20,730 --> 00:35:22,129
- We've been deluged with complaints.

804
00:35:22,210 --> 00:35:24,042
We can't have clap for
carers and then tell them

805
00:35:24,130 --> 00:35:25,359
to pay up for healthcare.

806
00:35:26,370 --> 00:35:30,807
- People hate it, focus
group reports are explicit.

807
00:35:30,890 --> 00:35:33,279
- Alright so we err, we
cancel the charge do we?

808
00:35:34,370 --> 00:35:35,201
- Yeah.

809
00:35:35,290 --> 00:35:36,086
-I agree.

810
00:35:36,170 --> 00:35:37,205
- Right, so if we're gonna change that,

811
00:35:37,290 --> 00:35:39,486
I mean couldn't someone
have seen this coming?

812
00:35:39,570 --> 00:35:40,366
Mm?

813
00:35:40,450 --> 00:35:42,760
I mean isn't it someone's actual job

814
00:35:42,850 --> 00:35:45,410
to see what's coming towards
us and give me a heads up?

815
00:35:46,930 --> 00:35:47,726
- How are you?

816
00:35:47,810 --> 00:35:49,483
How are you feeling?

817
00:35:49,570 --> 00:35:51,322
- Well to be honest a
bit knackered actually,

818
00:35:51,410 --> 00:35:56,405
what with the virus and the
baby and the job, you know.

819
00:35:57,290 --> 00:36:00,840
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

820
00:36:01,850 --> 00:36:03,045
What about you?

821
00:36:03,130 --> 00:36:04,200
- Oh I'm okay.

822
00:36:04,290 --> 00:36:06,520
Nothing too exciting.
- Yeah?

823
00:36:06,610 --> 00:36:11,605
- It would be so good to
see you, you know, properly,

824
00:36:12,090 --> 00:36:15,526
you know, when this is over.

825
00:36:15,610 --> 00:36:16,406
- Yeah.

826
00:36:16,490 --> 00:36:17,446
- Great.

827
00:36:17,530 --> 00:36:18,565
- Sounds good.

828
00:36:18,650 --> 00:36:20,004
- So, what can I do you for?

829
00:36:20,090 --> 00:36:21,489
- We've had a report
about Dominic Cummings

830
00:36:21,570 --> 00:36:23,720
being up here in Durham during lockdown.

831
00:36:23,810 --> 00:36:24,959
Do you know anything about that at all?

832
00:36:25,050 --> 00:36:26,882
- I was wondering when someone
would ask me about that.

833
00:36:26,970 --> 00:36:27,766
- Really?

834
00:36:27,850 --> 00:36:30,239
- Yeah, we spoke to the family.

835
00:36:30,330 --> 00:36:31,764
-Is this off the record?

836
00:36:31,850 --> 00:36:33,079
- You know what, if you
ask me an official question

837
00:36:33,170 --> 00:36:35,639
1 can give you an official response.

838
00:36:35,730 --> 00:36:36,845
- We can run this story on the basis

839
00:36:36,930 --> 00:36:39,399
that the police have been looking into it.

840
00:36:39,490 --> 00:36:40,685
-I'm nervous.

841
00:36:40,770 --> 00:36:42,841
Downing Street have
denied this story before.

842
00:36:42,930 --> 00:36:45,080
- They denied the 19th,
they haven't denied the 5th.

843
00:36:45,170 --> 00:36:46,922
- Which the police confirmed.

844
00:36:47,010 --> 00:36:49,206
- We should give Downing
Street the right to respond.

845
00:36:49,290 --> 00:36:50,280
(phone chimes)

846
00:36:50,370 --> 00:36:51,440
- What the fuck?

847
00:36:51,530 --> 00:36:52,486
- What?

848
00:36:52,570 --> 00:36:54,322
- Pippa says The Mirror and The Guardian

849
00:36:54,410 --> 00:36:58,005
are gonna run a story on Dom
being in Durham tomorrow.

850
00:36:58,090 --> 00:36:59,364
- Oh fuckin' hell.

851
00:36:59,450 --> 00:37:00,281
Let me see.

852
00:37:02,170 --> 00:37:03,729
- They're asking for a comment.

853
00:37:05,130 --> 00:37:06,723
- Yeah, tell them they're cunts.

854
00:37:08,610 --> 00:37:09,406
Fuck!

855
00:37:11,370 --> 00:37:13,441
- I'm not sure you can say
that to a journalist anymore.

856
00:37:13,530 --> 00:37:15,203
- Policy development.

857
00:37:15,290 --> 00:37:16,849
I need to know your
underdoing of the dynamic-

858
00:37:16,930 --> 00:37:17,726
- Dom!

859
00:37:17,810 --> 00:37:18,606
Dom!

860
00:37:18,690 --> 00:37:19,646
I need a word.

861
00:37:19,730 --> 00:37:20,720
Gotta do it.

862
00:37:26,930 --> 00:37:28,045
- I'll be back in a moment.

863
00:37:28,130 --> 00:37:29,120
- Yes, okay.

864
00:37:32,770 --> 00:37:33,919
- So I've got The Mirror and The Guardian

865
00:37:34,010 --> 00:37:35,125
asking for a comment on a story

866
00:37:35,210 --> 00:37:37,201
that you were in Durham during lockdown.

867
00:37:40,530 --> 00:37:41,645
- No comment.

868
00:37:41,730 --> 00:37:44,006
- Okay well they're gonna
run with it tomorrow.

869
00:37:44,090 --> 00:37:46,969
- No one cares where
spads go or what spads do,

870
00:37:47,050 --> 00:37:50,088
it's just lobby people hot air.

871
00:37:50,170 --> 00:37:52,559
- Alright, I'l get Jack to deny it then.

872
00:37:52,650 --> 00:37:55,324
-No, I'll handle it.
- Well we can do it-

873
00:37:55,410 --> 00:37:56,206
-I said I'l handle it.

874
00:37:56,290 --> 00:37:57,928
- Did the PM know you were up there?

875
00:38:03,410 --> 00:38:04,809
- Yeah.

876
00:38:04,890 --> 00:38:06,289
- When?

877
00:38:06,370 --> 00:38:08,646
- Before he went into hospital.

878
00:38:08,730 --> 00:38:10,562
I don't remember exactly when.

879
00:38:11,410 --> 00:38:12,923
- You know this is gonna get messy.

880
00:38:13,010 --> 00:38:15,445
- I said I'l handle it, alright?

881
00:38:29,250 --> 00:38:31,969
- So according to The Met,

882
00:38:32,050 --> 00:38:34,485
Durham Police are gonna
confirm The Mirror story.

883
00:38:43,810 --> 00:38:45,209
- I'll be working from home.

884
00:38:46,930 --> 00:38:49,285
- Into your room now,
you've got five minutes.

885
00:38:49,370 --> 00:38:50,246
Go go go.

886
00:38:50,330 --> 00:38:51,525
There you go, well done.

887
00:38:52,570 --> 00:38:55,369
(phone vibrating)

888
00:38:55,450 --> 00:38:56,326
Hi Jeremy?

889
00:38:56,410 --> 00:38:58,401
- [Jeremy] Hi Pippa, we've got it.

890
00:38:58,490 --> 00:38:59,639
- Yes.

891
00:38:59,730 --> 00:39:02,722
- It's all bullshit, it's
the same usual suspects,

892
00:39:02,810 --> 00:39:06,166
The Mirror, The Guardian, the
fucking left leaning cunts,

893
00:39:06,250 --> 00:39:08,810
they're just trying to find
titbits to feed their readers.

894
00:39:08,890 --> 00:39:10,767
- Okay, so we're good to go?

895
00:39:10,850 --> 00:39:13,524
8:00pm, let's synchronize our watches.

896
00:39:14,610 --> 00:39:17,284
-I didn't breach any guidelines,
1 should fucking know,

897
00:39:17,370 --> 00:39:18,565
I helped to write them.

898
00:39:24,370 --> 00:39:25,883
- Well done.

899
00:39:25,970 --> 00:39:28,280
- My first ever front page story.

900
00:39:28,370 --> 00:39:29,201
- Brilliant.

901
00:39:40,650 --> 00:39:42,163
- [Carrie] He has to resign.

902
00:39:42,250 --> 00:39:43,479
- But he doesn't want to.

903
00:39:43,570 --> 00:39:46,039
- It's not a case of what he wants.

904
00:39:46,130 --> 00:39:47,450
He's gonna drag you down with him.

905
00:39:47,530 --> 00:39:49,487
- Yeah, once they smell
blood they just want more,

906
00:39:49,570 --> 00:39:50,685
you know, they're like sharks.

907
00:39:50,770 --> 00:39:53,284
Well that makes them sound
way too glamorous, you know,

908
00:39:53,370 --> 00:39:55,088
they're like hyenas and they're, you know,

909
00:39:55,170 --> 00:39:57,241
once you're down and
wounded they gather around.

910
00:39:57,330 --> 00:40:01,688
Just gotta keep on plowing
across the savannah ignoring them

911
00:40:01,770 --> 00:40:04,444
and then they're too
cowardly to, you know,

912
00:40:04,530 --> 00:40:06,248
to come in for the kill.

913
00:40:06,330 --> 00:40:08,401
- [Reporter] Boris Johnson
gives Dominic Cummings

914
00:40:08,490 --> 00:40:10,083
his full support.

915
00:40:10,170 --> 00:40:12,844
The opposition says it's double standards,

916
00:40:12,930 --> 00:40:16,605
Labour's Rachel Reeves
calling for an investigation.

917
00:40:16,690 --> 00:40:18,442
- I want to go to the playground.

918
00:40:18,530 --> 00:40:20,601
- We can go to the playground.

919
00:40:20,690 --> 00:40:21,964
- I can get up myself.

920
00:40:22,050 --> 00:40:23,006
Did you see that?

921
00:40:23,090 --> 00:40:24,285
- I know, you're really
good at doing that.

922
00:40:24,370 --> 00:40:27,408
Oh we need tiger, we need
tiger, alright come on.

923
00:40:27,490 --> 00:40:29,686
Right, let's go.

924
00:40:29,770 --> 00:40:31,204
Alright, let's go.

925
00:40:39,610 --> 00:40:40,486
- [Robin] Hello?

926
00:40:40,570 --> 00:40:41,719
- Hi, is that Robin Lees?

927
00:40:41,810 --> 00:40:43,687
It's Matthew Weaver from The Guardian.

928
00:40:43,770 --> 00:40:44,760
- [Robin] That was quick.

929
00:40:44,850 --> 00:40:47,080
- Yes, so when did you
think you saw Cummings?

930
00:40:47,170 --> 00:40:48,729
- I'm pretty sure it was him.

931
00:40:48,810 --> 00:40:51,563
I can remember his number plate,

932
00:40:51,650 --> 00:40:53,323
it was on the 12th of April.

933
00:40:53,410 --> 00:40:54,730
- You remember his number plate?

934
00:40:54,810 --> 00:40:55,845
- [Robin] Yeah I've got a good memory

935
00:40:55,930 --> 00:40:57,159
for that sort of thing.

936
00:40:57,250 --> 00:40:58,843
« Here he comes.
- Morning Mr Cummings.

937
00:40:58,930 --> 00:41:00,079
- Hey guys.

938
00:41:00,170 --> 00:41:01,683
Social distancing.

939
00:41:01,770 --> 00:41:03,602
Move out the way, create a path through.

940
00:41:03,690 --> 00:41:05,124
- Are you getting ready to go?
- Doesn't look good does it?

941
00:41:05,210 --> 00:41:06,006
- Who cares about good looks?

942
00:41:06,090 --> 00:41:07,364
It's a question of doing the right thing,

943
00:41:07,450 --> 00:41:09,521
it's not about what you guys think.

944
00:41:09,610 --> 00:41:11,442
- Are you gonna consider
your position Mr Cummings?

945
00:41:11,530 --> 00:41:12,326
- [Dominic] Obviously not.

946
00:41:12,410 --> 00:41:13,969
- [Reporter] The public
are probably very angry.

947
00:41:14,050 --> 00:41:15,006
- I don't think so.

948
00:41:15,090 --> 00:41:16,649
You guys are probably as right about that

949
00:41:16,730 --> 00:41:17,526
as you were about Brexit.

950
00:41:17,610 --> 00:41:18,759
Do you remember how right you were,

951
00:41:18,850 --> 00:41:20,602
how right you all were about that?

952
00:41:21,690 --> 00:41:24,409
- Dom has sent us a statement to issue.

953
00:41:24,490 --> 00:41:25,286
-Dom?

954
00:41:25,370 --> 00:41:26,644
I'm sorry, where is Dom?

955
00:41:26,730 --> 00:41:29,927
- Judging by the TV news
footage he's gone to the park.

956
00:41:30,010 --> 00:41:31,409
- Well why isn't he in the office?

957
00:41:31,490 --> 00:41:34,164
- I think he's trying to signal
that he doesn't give a fuck.

958
00:41:34,250 --> 00:41:36,366
- Well he'd better start giving a fuck!

959
00:41:36,450 --> 00:41:38,805
- So Number 10 have said at no stage

960
00:41:38,890 --> 00:41:41,166
was he or his family
spoken to by the police

961
00:41:41,250 --> 00:41:42,968
about this matter as is being reported.

962
00:41:43,050 --> 00:41:44,768
- Well that's just wrong.

963
00:41:44,850 --> 00:41:46,443
We have the Durham Police statement saying

964
00:41:46,530 --> 00:41:49,204
what he did was unwise and frustrating.

965
00:41:49,290 --> 00:41:51,850
- And Robin Lees is happy
for us to use his name.

966
00:41:51,930 --> 00:41:53,648
(phone chimes)

967
00:41:53,730 --> 00:41:57,166
- Mirror and Guardian are
claiming Dom was in Barnard Castle

968
00:41:57,250 --> 00:41:59,890
on the 12th and Durham on the 19th.

969
00:41:59,970 --> 00:42:02,769
- Well no, we know he was
in Durham on the 12th.

970
00:42:02,850 --> 00:42:04,727
- Barnard Castle's not in Durham.

971
00:42:04,810 --> 00:42:05,606
- Where is it?

972
00:42:05,690 --> 00:42:07,124
- Hang on.

973
00:42:07,210 --> 00:42:11,249
It's 24.4 miles away on the fastest route

974
00:42:11,330 --> 00:42:13,924
or 26.6 via Dentgate Lane.

975
00:42:15,450 --> 00:42:19,045
- And what the fuck was he
doing in Barnard fucking Castle?

976
00:42:19,130 --> 00:42:22,122
Call his number until he fucking answers.

977
00:42:22,210 --> 00:42:23,006
Fuck!

978
00:42:23,090 --> 00:42:24,808
- The important thing is that everybody

979
00:42:24,890 --> 00:42:27,245
stays in the same place while in lockdown,

980
00:42:27,330 --> 00:42:29,287
that's clearly what happened in this case.

981
00:42:29,370 --> 00:42:31,520
Now the Prime Minister would've known

982
00:42:31,610 --> 00:42:34,602
that Mr Cummings stayed put
and didn't come out again

983
00:42:34,690 --> 00:42:35,760
until he was feeling better.

984
00:42:35,850 --> 00:42:38,569
- Did no one tell that fucking
idiot not open his mouth

985
00:42:38,650 --> 00:42:39,685
and talk shit.

986
00:42:39,770 --> 00:42:42,569
- Well actually I don't think
that technically is wrong.

987
00:42:44,090 --> 00:42:45,364
- In what way is it not wrong?

988
00:42:45,450 --> 00:42:47,043
- Well presumably Dom was feeling better

989
00:42:47,130 --> 00:42:49,087
when he went to Barnard Castle

990
00:42:49,170 --> 00:42:52,401
or else he wouldn't want
to go for a walk, would he?

991
00:42:52,490 --> 00:42:54,367
- Is that supposed to be a joke?

992
00:42:54,450 --> 00:42:55,246
- Yes.

993
00:42:56,730 --> 00:42:57,720
- Hi Lee.

994
00:42:57,810 --> 00:42:58,925
«Yeah The Mirror and
The Guardian were saying

995
00:42:59,010 --> 00:43:02,048
that you were in Barnard Castle
on the 12th, is that right?

996
00:43:02,130 --> 00:43:02,926
- They have a witness?

997
00:43:03,010 --> 00:43:03,806
- Yeah.

998
00:43:03,890 --> 00:43:05,881
They're also saying you were
in Houghall Woods on the 19th,

999
00:43:05,970 --> 00:43:08,689
now you were down here
on the 14th so what,

1000
00:43:08,770 --> 00:43:10,681
does that mean you went back up there?

1001
00:43:11,970 --> 00:43:13,199
- That's not true.

1002
00:43:13,290 --> 00:43:15,088
I'l draft a response.

1003
00:43:15,170 --> 00:43:16,843
- [Reporter] Dominic
Cummings has faced his own

1004
00:43:16,930 --> 00:43:19,046
political mortality before,

1005
00:43:19,130 --> 00:43:21,326
surely now he's running out of lives.

1006
00:43:25,890 --> 00:43:27,688
- [James] Were you at Barnard Castle?

1007
00:43:27,770 --> 00:43:29,044
- Yeah.

1008
00:43:29,130 --> 00:43:30,529
- [James] When did you
return from Durham to London?

1009
00:43:30,610 --> 00:43:31,964
- On the 13th.

1010
00:43:32,050 --> 00:43:32,846
- [James] Well what about
this story that you were there

1011
00:43:32,930 --> 00:43:34,489
on the 19th?

1012
00:43:34,570 --> 00:43:36,368
- I was in London on the 19th.

1013
00:43:36,450 --> 00:43:39,806
I have photos, data on my
phone, I was in London.

1014
00:43:43,170 --> 00:43:45,764
Perhaps the PM and I could talk privately?

1015
00:43:45,850 --> 00:43:46,726
- Sure, sure.

1016
00:43:50,530 --> 00:43:51,679
How is Mary?

1017
00:43:52,650 --> 00:43:54,561
- She's finding it pretty
difficult at the moment.

1018
00:43:54,650 --> 00:43:56,163
- Yeah, I can imagine.

1019
00:43:56,250 --> 00:43:57,729
- [Dominic] tl blow over.

1020
00:43:57,810 --> 00:44:00,165
- Gabriel's organized some focus groups,

1021
00:44:01,010 --> 00:44:02,648
get a sense of whether
it's cutting through.

1022
00:44:02,730 --> 00:44:04,164
- [Boris] Right thanks, yeah.

1023
00:44:06,730 --> 00:44:08,607
- You do remember that I told you

1024
00:44:08,690 --> 00:44:10,169
I was in Durham on the phone.

1025
00:44:10,250 --> 00:44:12,161
- Oh come on Dom.

1026
00:44:12,250 --> 00:44:13,923
It's not a question of
what I feel or think

1027
00:44:14,010 --> 00:44:18,322
or believe about you being
in Durham and you know that.

1028
00:44:20,530 --> 00:44:23,170
- We have almost five years ahead of us.

1029
00:44:23,250 --> 00:44:25,844
There's a huge amount of work to be done.

1030
00:44:25,930 --> 00:44:28,729
In five years time no one will remember

1031
00:44:28,810 --> 00:44:30,448
Barnard Castle or Durham.

1032
00:44:31,530 --> 00:44:34,522
This is just a bit of bad
weather, it'll blow over.

1033
00:44:34,610 --> 00:44:37,841
(Boris speaking Latin)

1034
00:44:42,810 --> 00:44:46,769
- All men make mistakes,
the only crime is pride.

1035
00:44:48,370 --> 00:44:51,840
-l don't believe it was
a mistake to go to Durham.

1036
00:44:55,090 --> 00:44:58,208
- I was looking at some of
the papers from Imperial

1037
00:44:58,290 --> 00:44:59,564
about the spread of the virus.

1038
00:44:59,650 --> 00:45:02,085
They estimate that about one
and a half million people

1039
00:45:02,170 --> 00:45:04,241
were infected by the time we locked down.

1040
00:45:04,330 --> 00:45:08,005
Two weeks earlier that figure
would've been about 75,000.

1041
00:45:08,090 --> 00:45:10,559
- Yeah, they were reported
in The Times yesterday.

1042
00:45:10,650 --> 00:45:15,645
- 22 days of dither and delay
that cost thousands of lives.

1043
00:45:18,010 --> 00:45:19,921
- People have died all over the world.

1044
00:45:20,930 --> 00:45:21,920
There were failures.

1045
00:45:22,770 --> 00:45:25,330
That's why we need to change the system.

1046
00:45:25,410 --> 00:45:27,970
Sage isn't fit for
purpose, PHE's a disaster,

1047
00:45:28,050 --> 00:45:30,246
the NHS is full of time servers,

1048
00:45:30,330 --> 00:45:32,640
the Department of Health is incompetent.

1049
00:45:32,730 --> 00:45:35,165
This crisis was a health crisis.

1050
00:45:35,250 --> 00:45:38,959
The next will be transport
or work and pensions.

1051
00:45:39,050 --> 00:45:42,520
We need to use this disruption to build

1052
00:45:42,610 --> 00:45:45,284
a different system of government.

1053
00:45:45,370 --> 00:45:48,123
- You complain a lot about
failure in government,

1054
00:45:48,210 --> 00:45:50,167
about how it's never
punished, sometimes rewarded,

1055
00:45:50,250 --> 00:45:52,366
but was this all their fault?

1056
00:45:52,450 --> 00:45:54,885
It's this big government that isn't us?

1057
00:45:55,810 --> 00:45:57,209
I mean, haven't we failed?

1058
00:45:59,490 --> 00:46:00,560
1 think we failed.

1059
00:46:05,650 --> 00:46:06,970
You fucked up Dom.

1060
00:46:08,210 --> 00:46:11,362
- Dominic Cummings is a
complete and utter disgrace

1061
00:46:11,450 --> 00:46:12,599
who needs to go.

1062
00:46:12,690 --> 00:46:14,647
- He's unscrupulous and selfish.

1063
00:46:14,730 --> 00:46:17,609
- He should resign and we
should be concentrating

1064
00:46:17,690 --> 00:46:19,567
on more important issues.

1065
00:46:19,650 --> 00:46:21,368
(Wilfred crying)

1066
00:46:21,450 --> 00:46:22,326
- [Carrie] Good luck!

1067
00:46:22,410 --> 00:46:23,400
- Thank you.

1068
00:46:25,810 --> 00:46:29,087
Am I really gonna have to say all this?

1069
00:46:31,050 --> 00:46:32,040
Fuck's sake.

1070
00:46:34,250 --> 00:46:35,843
Don't touch the hair, thanks.

1071
00:46:35,930 --> 00:46:36,761
- [Speaker] It's time.

1072
00:46:36,850 --> 00:46:37,646
- Good afternoon.

1073
00:46:37,730 --> 00:46:40,802
I want to begin by
answering the big question

1074
00:46:40,890 --> 00:46:43,643
that people have been
asking in the last 48 hours.

1075
00:46:43,730 --> 00:46:47,280
I believe that in every respect
he has acted responsibly

1076
00:46:47,370 --> 00:46:50,567
and legally and with integrity.

1077
00:46:50,650 --> 00:46:54,564
And I have concluded that
he followed the instincts

1078
00:46:54,650 --> 00:46:57,449
of every father and every parent.

1079
00:46:57,530 --> 00:46:58,565
Yes, lain?

1080
00:46:58,650 --> 00:47:02,530
- Did Dominic Cummings make
a trip to Barnard Castle

1081
00:47:02,610 --> 00:47:04,726
in April when he was isolating,

1082
00:47:04,810 --> 00:47:07,450
or at least was based in Durham?

1083
00:47:07,530 --> 00:47:11,922
- Again, I just repeat
what I said earlier on,

1084
00:47:12,010 --> 00:47:15,969
I'm content that at all
times throughout his period

1085
00:47:16,050 --> 00:47:21,045
in isolation he behaved
responsibly and correctly.

1086
00:47:21,930 --> 00:47:23,603
«You know that is not
going to be the end of it.

1087
00:47:23,690 --> 00:47:25,044
- Were you watching?

1088
00:47:25,130 --> 00:47:26,165
- Yes.

1089
00:47:26,250 --> 00:47:28,082
He is going to bring you down.

1090
00:47:28,170 --> 00:47:29,649
- Good.

1091
00:47:29,730 --> 00:47:30,879
- Sack him!

1092
00:47:30,970 --> 00:47:33,007
Sack him, sack him, sack him, sack him.

1093
00:47:33,090 --> 00:47:34,524
- I'm gonna sack you one day.

1094
00:47:35,810 --> 00:47:37,130
- Is that a complaint?

1095
00:47:37,210 --> 00:47:38,644
- Yeah, I thought the
whole point of having

1096
00:47:38,730 --> 00:47:41,290
a young girlfriend was that
you got lots and lots of sex?

1097
00:47:41,370 --> 00:47:42,565
- Yes, and babies.

1098
00:47:42,650 --> 00:47:43,924
Do you remember that we have a baby?

1099
00:47:44,010 --> 00:47:44,806
- Yeah.

1100
00:47:47,130 --> 00:47:49,167
- Hi, I got your email
about Dominic Cummings.

1101
00:47:49,250 --> 00:47:51,605
- We saw him here, in Durham.

1102
00:47:51,690 --> 00:47:52,521
- [Pippa] When?

1103
00:47:53,410 --> 00:47:55,401
- On the 19th of April.

1104
00:47:55,490 --> 00:47:56,639
- And where?

1105
00:47:56,730 --> 00:47:58,801
- [Clare] In Houghall Woods.

1106
00:47:58,890 --> 00:48:00,244
- And you're sure it was Dominic Cummings?

1107
00:48:00,330 --> 00:48:01,684
- [Clare] Absolutely.

1108
00:48:01,770 --> 00:48:04,080
- And you're willing to
have your names published?

1109
00:48:04,170 --> 00:48:05,046
- [Clare] Oh yes.

1110
00:48:08,970 --> 00:48:10,199
- That's The Mail.

1111
00:48:10,290 --> 00:48:11,644
Not The Mirror, The Mail.

1112
00:48:14,770 --> 00:48:17,284
You have got to get rid of him.

1113
00:48:17,370 --> 00:48:19,122
- [Boris] What is the plan?

1114
00:48:19,210 --> 00:48:21,486
- Well we need to draw a
line under this somehow.

1115
00:48:21,570 --> 00:48:22,969
- It's not gonna be easy.

1116
00:48:23,050 --> 00:48:24,927
- In my opinion and I'm sorry to say this,

1117
00:48:25,010 --> 00:48:27,923
but Dom has to go, he can
come back at a later date

1118
00:48:28,010 --> 00:48:29,569
but right now he's causing
too much collateral damage.

1119
00:48:29,650 --> 00:48:31,209
- Well he doesn't wanna go.

1120
00:48:31,290 --> 00:48:33,042
«1 don't think it is
right that you go out there

1121
00:48:33,130 --> 00:48:34,928
and take the flack for Dom.

1122
00:48:35,010 --> 00:48:36,080
It's not right.

1123
00:48:36,170 --> 00:48:37,080
-I agree.

1124
00:48:37,170 --> 00:48:39,480
- [Lee] Maybe Dom should make a statement,

1125
00:48:39,570 --> 00:48:40,640
we get him out there.

1126
00:48:41,730 --> 00:48:43,687
- Dom, talk in public?

1127
00:48:43,770 --> 00:48:45,807
He's not gonna like that.

1128
00:48:45,890 --> 00:48:48,245
- [James] Maybe then he'll
understand how angry people are.

1129
00:48:56,130 --> 00:48:57,200
- Coffee?

1130
00:48:57,290 --> 00:48:58,086
-No.

1131
00:49:01,730 --> 00:49:03,004
- Gabriel's gonna pretend to be a cross

1132
00:49:03,090 --> 00:49:04,842
between Peston and Kuenssberg.

1133
00:49:05,690 --> 00:49:06,486
- Pest-berg.

1134
00:49:06,570 --> 00:49:07,526
- Give you a dry run.

1135
00:49:08,730 --> 00:49:11,290
Have you brought a change of clothes?

1136
00:49:11,370 --> 00:49:12,166
-No.

1137
00:49:15,210 --> 00:49:16,041
- Cleo?

1138
00:49:18,010 --> 00:49:20,399
Get him something sensible to wear.

1139
00:49:20,490 --> 00:49:22,242
- Hey Nicola, they've announced Cummings

1140
00:49:22,330 --> 00:49:25,402
is doing a press conference
today in Downing Street.

1141
00:49:25,490 --> 00:49:27,128
We're in the lobby
today but can't go in,

1142
00:49:27,210 --> 00:49:29,884
I've got the kids, can you cover for me?

1143
00:49:29,970 --> 00:49:32,120
- [Gabriel] So why did you
travel to Barnard Castle?

1144
00:49:32,210 --> 00:49:35,089
- [Dominic] To make sure that
1 was okay to drive to London.

1145
00:49:35,170 --> 00:49:37,081
- Weren't you putting
other people at risk?

1146
00:49:37,170 --> 00:49:40,720
- No, because we socially
distanced at all times.

1147
00:49:44,410 --> 00:49:46,048
- When you found out
your wife had the virus

1148
00:49:46,130 --> 00:49:47,450
you went home immediately.

1149
00:49:47,530 --> 00:49:49,441
- Yep, to check that she was okay.

1150
00:49:49,530 --> 00:49:51,521
- But then you came back
into Downing Street,

1151
00:49:51,610 --> 00:49:54,170
a busy office, after
having been in contact

1152
00:49:54,250 --> 00:49:55,649
with someone with the virus.

1153
00:49:55,730 --> 00:49:58,165
Wasn't that in breach of the guidelines?

1154
00:50:00,290 --> 00:50:03,009
Weren't you risking
infecting your colleagues?

1155
00:50:06,210 --> 00:50:09,726
-I could say that I socially
distanced at the office.

1156
00:50:09,810 --> 00:50:12,245
- Why didn't you just have the
stuff you needed sent home?

1157
00:50:16,090 --> 00:50:17,808
- Do you think he's done a runner?

1158
00:50:21,170 --> 00:50:23,684
- Good luck.

1159
00:50:23,770 --> 00:50:24,601
- Thank you.

1160
00:50:29,330 --> 00:50:30,240
- Hi there.

1161
00:50:32,730 --> 00:50:33,800
Sorry I'm late.

1162
00:50:35,610 --> 00:50:38,124
Good afternoon, thanks for coming.

1163
00:50:39,690 --> 00:50:42,489
Yesterday I gave a full
account to the Prime Minister

1164
00:50:42,570 --> 00:50:44,368
of my actions between the 27th of March

1165
00:50:44,450 --> 00:50:48,205
and the 14th of April of
what I thought and did,

1166
00:50:48,290 --> 00:50:51,920
and he has asked me to repeat
that account directly to you.

1167
00:50:53,130 --> 00:50:54,689
1 know that millions of
people in this country

1168
00:50:54,770 --> 00:50:57,205
have been suffering, thousands have died,

1169
00:50:58,090 --> 00:50:59,888
many are angry about what
they've seen in the media

1170
00:50:59,970 --> 00:51:01,040
about my actions.

1171
00:51:02,130 --> 00:51:03,768
On Sunday the 12th of April,

1172
00:51:03,850 --> 00:51:06,490
15 days after I had
first displayed symptoms,

1173
00:51:06,570 --> 00:51:08,368
I decided to return to work.

1174
00:51:08,450 --> 00:51:11,044
My wife was very worried,
particularly given my eyesight

1175
00:51:11,130 --> 00:51:14,043
seemed to have heen
affected by the disease.

1176
00:51:14,130 --> 00:51:14,961
- What the fuck?

1177
00:51:15,050 --> 00:51:16,370
They never said that to me.

1178
00:51:16,450 --> 00:51:17,246
- [Dominic] We agreed that we
should go for a short drive

1179
00:51:17,330 --> 00:51:19,446
to see if I could drive safely.

1180
00:51:19,530 --> 00:51:21,521
- Why doesn't he just fucking apologize?

1181
00:51:21,610 --> 00:51:24,489
- And ended up on the outskirts
of Barnard Castle town.

1182
00:51:24,570 --> 00:51:26,880
In the last few days there
have been many media reports

1183
00:51:26,970 --> 00:51:31,328
that I returned to Durham
after the 13th of April.

1184
00:51:31,410 --> 00:51:32,844
All these stories are false.

1185
00:51:33,770 --> 00:51:35,647
There is a particular
report that I returned there

1186
00:51:35,730 --> 00:51:37,880
on the 19th of April.

1187
00:51:37,970 --> 00:51:41,725
Photos and data on my phone
prove this to be false.

1188
00:51:41,810 --> 00:51:42,641
- Fuck.

1189
00:51:44,970 --> 00:51:46,802
- Last year I wrote
about the possible threat

1190
00:51:46,890 --> 00:51:49,530
of coronaviruses and the
urgent need for planning.

1191
00:51:50,570 --> 00:51:53,688
For years I have warned of
the dangers of pandemics.

1192
00:51:53,770 --> 00:51:56,728
The truth is I had argued for lockdown.

1193
00:51:57,850 --> 00:51:59,682
1 did not oppose it.

1194
00:51:59,770 --> 00:52:02,523
I wanted to explain what I thought,

1195
00:52:02,610 --> 00:52:03,930
because I think that people like me,

1196
00:52:04,010 --> 00:52:06,126
who helped to make the rules,

1197
00:52:06,210 --> 00:52:08,406
should be accountable for their actions.

1198
00:52:22,250 --> 00:52:24,560
- Let me just say at the
outset that I can't speak

1199
00:52:24,650 --> 00:52:27,290
on behalf of special advisors,
as that is not my job.

1200
00:52:28,410 --> 00:52:29,206
Yes?

1201
00:52:29,290 --> 00:52:32,328
- When you told us that
Dominic Cummings was isolating,

1202
00:52:32,410 --> 00:52:34,321
quote at home,

1203
00:52:34,410 --> 00:52:36,765
did you know at home meant Durham

1204
00:52:36,850 --> 00:52:38,409
or did you think it was London?

1205
00:52:39,330 --> 00:52:43,324
- No, the context of my
answer was just pointing out

1206
00:52:43,410 --> 00:52:44,400
that he wasn't at work.

1207
00:52:44,490 --> 00:52:46,561
- Yeah but you said he was at home.

1208
00:52:46,650 --> 00:52:49,688
- I was just pointing out
that he wasn't at work.

1209
00:52:49,770 --> 00:52:51,488
- [Speaker] You told us he was at home.

1210
00:52:51,570 --> 00:52:52,890
It seems odd you would tell us that

1211
00:52:52,970 --> 00:52:54,608
without knowing where he was.

1212
00:52:54,690 --> 00:52:57,000
- I was just pointing out
that he wasn't at work.

1213
00:52:57,090 --> 00:52:59,320
- I actually think that
they've been quite brave

1214
00:52:59,410 --> 00:53:02,766
in the way that you've
been prepared to sacrifice

1215
00:53:02,850 --> 00:53:06,081
the credibility and popularity
of your own government

1216
00:53:06,170 --> 00:53:07,683
just to stand by your man.

1217
00:53:07,770 --> 00:53:11,843
You've somehow managed to
unite a nation in condemnation

1218
00:53:11,930 --> 00:53:15,924
and indignation over your
handling of Mr Cummings.

1219
00:53:16,010 --> 00:53:18,365
- Prime Minister, you said that
a number of the allegations

1220
00:53:18,450 --> 00:53:20,407
that are made about Dominic
Cummings were false.

1221
00:53:20,490 --> 00:53:21,685
You were with him for six hours.

1222
00:53:21,770 --> 00:53:23,886
Did you see the evidence to prove that?

1223
00:53:23,970 --> 00:53:27,361
- Meg I, you know, I don't
want to, I don't want to...

1224
00:53:27,450 --> 00:53:29,919
- Yes or no Prime Minister,
it's a simple question.

1225
00:53:30,010 --> 00:53:31,205
Did you see the evidence?

1226
00:53:31,290 --> 00:53:33,850
- If it'll please you I'll say yes I did,

1227
00:53:33,930 --> 00:53:36,160
but 1, you know, I don't want to yeah...

1228
00:53:36,250 --> 00:53:40,130
I don't want to in any way
cloud, you know, issues...

1229
00:53:41,970 --> 00:53:43,369
- We have to run the Edwards' story.

1230
00:53:43,450 --> 00:53:45,123
They are the perfect witnesses.

1231
00:53:45,210 --> 00:53:46,359
She's a nurse.

1232
00:53:46,450 --> 00:53:48,202
He's supplied Nightingale hospitals.

1233
00:53:48,290 --> 00:53:49,519
He's a Tory.

1234
00:53:49,610 --> 00:53:52,921
They are really clear and
they're willing to be named.

1235
00:53:53,010 --> 00:53:54,967
- Cummings has said very
clearly this is not true.

1236
00:53:55,050 --> 00:53:55,846
- Exactly!

1237
00:53:55,930 --> 00:53:57,045
We've got him!

1238
00:53:57,130 --> 00:53:58,928
- And the PM said that
he'd seen the evidence.

1239
00:53:59,010 --> 00:54:01,160
- Exactly, we've got him too.

1240
00:54:01,250 --> 00:54:04,049
- Cummings has specifically
said this story is untrue.

1241
00:54:04,130 --> 00:54:06,565
If we print this and then he
brings out his phone records

1242
00:54:06,650 --> 00:54:10,006
and proves he was in
London then we're fucked.

1243
00:54:10,090 --> 00:54:10,886
- Okay.

1244
00:54:10,970 --> 00:54:12,483
Allright, well bye for now then guys.

1245
00:54:12,570 --> 00:54:14,447
Okay, thank you, bye bye.

1246
00:54:16,250 --> 00:54:17,160
- Fuck!

1247
00:54:17,250 --> 00:54:18,763
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck!

1248
00:54:21,490 --> 00:54:22,924
Oh.

1249
00:54:23,010 --> 00:54:24,125
Sorry sweetheart.

1250
00:54:25,650 --> 00:54:27,084
Bad day at the office.

1251
00:54:28,090 --> 00:54:30,843
(dramatic music)

1252
00:54:41,770 --> 00:54:42,566
{knocking at door)

1253
00:54:42,650 --> 00:54:43,481
- What?

1254
00:54:45,210 --> 00:54:46,689
- Can I have a word about this-

1255
00:54:46,770 --> 00:54:48,363
- No, not a good time.

1256
00:54:49,610 --> 00:54:50,930
Can I ask one question?

1257
00:54:51,010 --> 00:54:52,330
- [Dominic] Of course.

1258
00:54:52,410 --> 00:54:55,129
- Why did you change your blog?

1259
00:54:55,970 --> 00:54:59,042
Retrofit it to include coronavirus.

1260
00:54:59,130 --> 00:55:01,690
I mean didn't you know that people

1261
00:55:01,770 --> 00:55:03,204
would be able to find that out?

1262
00:55:03,290 --> 00:55:05,167
I mean are you not tech savvy?

1263
00:55:06,090 --> 00:55:08,650
I mean why do you have to try to show

1264
00:55:08,730 --> 00:55:11,119
that you had predicted
the pandemic on your own

1265
00:55:11,210 --> 00:55:13,440
like some fucking super forecaster?

1266
00:55:13,530 --> 00:55:17,000
(Boris speaking in Latin)

1267
00:55:24,890 --> 00:55:25,925
-I don't speak Greek.

1268
00:55:26,010 --> 00:55:27,728
- Yeah and I'm not gonna translate.

1269
00:55:34,770 --> 00:55:38,843
(crowds cheering and applauding)

1270
00:56:01,890 --> 00:56:05,884
This royal throne of
kings, this sceptred isle,

1271
00:56:05,970 --> 00:56:09,326
this earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,

1272
00:56:09,410 --> 00:56:13,802
this other Eden, demi-paradise,

1273
00:56:13,890 --> 00:56:16,803
this fortress built by nature for herself

1274
00:56:16,890 --> 00:56:19,848
against infection or the hand of war,

1275
00:56:19,930 --> 00:56:23,241
this happy breed of
men, this little world,

1276
00:56:24,450 --> 00:56:27,249
his precious stone set in the silver sea

1277
00:56:27,330 --> 00:56:30,607
which serves it in the office of a wall

1278
00:56:30,690 --> 00:56:34,365
or as a moat defensive to a
house against the envious,

1279
00:56:34,450 --> 00:56:39,445
less happier lands, this blessed plot,

1280
00:56:39,770 --> 00:56:44,765
this earth, this realm, this England.

1281
00:56:51,930 --> 00:56:55,400
Usually leave it there,
you know, forget the rest.

1282
00:56:56,290 --> 00:57:00,124
This England, whose rocky shore beats back

1283
00:57:00,210 --> 00:57:03,885
the envious siege of watery Neptune,

1284
00:57:05,130 --> 00:57:07,804
is now bound in with shame,

1285
00:57:09,010 --> 00:57:12,924
with inky blots and
rotten parchment bonds,

1286
00:57:14,330 --> 00:57:17,766
that England that was
wont to conquer others

1287
00:57:17,850 --> 00:57:22,765
hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

1288
00:57:25,090 --> 00:57:28,765
Ah would the scandal vanish with my life?

1289
00:57:30,890 --> 00:57:34,167
How happy then were my ensuing death?

1290
00:57:37,450 --> 00:57:38,804
- You're not going to die.

1291
00:57:44,610 --> 00:57:45,406
-No.

1292
00:57:47,890 --> 00:57:49,164
You're right.

1293
00:57:49,250 --> 00:57:51,924
(pensive music)

1294
00:57:56,930 --> 00:57:59,160
-I think in retrospect it's clear

1295
00:57:59,250 --> 00:58:00,365
that the official plan was wrong,

1296
00:58:00,450 --> 00:58:03,010
it's clear that the whole advice was wrong

1297
00:58:03,090 --> 00:58:05,127
and I think it's clear that we obviously

1298
00:58:05,210 --> 00:58:07,850
should've locked down essentially
the first week of March

1299
00:58:07,930 --> 00:58:09,079
at the latest.

1300
00:58:16,170 --> 00:58:18,730
The truth is that senior
ministers, senior officials,

1301
00:58:18,810 --> 00:58:22,644
senior advisors like me
fell disastrously short

1302
00:58:22,730 --> 00:58:26,041
of the standards the public
has a right to expect

1303
00:58:26,130 --> 00:58:29,009
of its government in a crisis like this.

1304
00:58:43,530 --> 00:58:46,727
-In England from today we're once again

1305
00:58:46,810 --> 00:58:49,450
asking you to stay at home.

1306
00:59:04,050 --> 00:59:06,849
- It's completely crackers
that someone like me

1307
00:59:06,930 --> 00:59:08,603
should've been in there, just
the same as it's crackers

1308
00:59:08,690 --> 00:59:10,283
that Boris Johnson was in there.

1309
00:59:12,490 --> 00:59:16,006
(cheering and applauding)

1310
00:59:18,450 --> 00:59:20,282
- It is with a very heavy
heart I must tell you

1311
00:59:20,370 --> 00:59:23,840
we cannot continue with
Christmas as planned.

1312
00:59:50,850 --> 00:59:54,161
1 paid the fine immediately and I offered

1313
00:59:54,250 --> 00:59:57,561
the British people a full apology.

1314
01:00:05,010 --> 01:00:08,480
Itis clearly now the
will of the parliamentary

1315
01:00:08,570 --> 01:00:12,359
Conservative Party that
there should be a new leader

1316
01:00:12,450 --> 01:00:15,647
of that party and therefore
a new Prime Minister.

1317
01:00:15,730 --> 01:00:19,405
(crowd cheers and applauds)

1318
01:00:23,250 --> 01:00:26,481
(slow dramatic music)