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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 15 February 2021 - Rapid rollout of vaccines will release pent up demand
Description: "The media has been full of stories of how the UK economy collapsed to its worst performance in 312 years but, in reality, that has no bearing on the growing optimism about how the economy will perform going forward.
While employment still concerns analysts, the fact that, differently to most recessions, there is a huge pile of pent-up demand growing which will burst like a dam once the lockdowns are lifted.
Fifteen million people have now been vaccinated. This puts the UK way out in front of other G7 economies.
Pressure is growing for the Government to start a phased reduction...