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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 23 February 2021 - Despite easing of lockdown support still necessary
Description: "The UK has been able to begin to take full advantage of the success of its vaccination programme by announcing a staged lifting of lockdown measures culminating, it is planned, for restrictions to be fully lifted by the late June.
As Boris Johnson commented when questioned by journalists at last evening’s press briefing, there will always be those who want him to act with more haste just there will be those who advise greater caution, but he believes that this plan can be seen as irreversible yet able to be delayed if circumstances demand.
The crux of the lifting li...