Northern Ireland's Survival Game (with Gavin Robinson MP)

10/07/20 • 22 min

A swathe of tighter lockdown restrictions could be hitting the north of England, with new measures set to be announced in Scotland.

In today's episode, we look at the situation in Northern Ireland. Gavin Robinson, DUP MP for Belfast East, tells Bloomberg Westminster's Roger Hearing and Sebastian Salek funding for Irish businesses hit by local restrictions won't be enough for all of them to survive.

Plus, as Rishi Sunak dazzles the Conservatives, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Therese Raphael joins to discuss the chancellor's future prospects.

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A swathe of tighter lockdown restrictions could be hitting the north of England, with new measures set to be announced in Scotland.

Plus, as Rishi Sunak dazzles the Conservatives, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Therese Raphael joins to discuss the chancellor's future prospects.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Bloomberg UK Politics - Northern Ireland's Survival Game (with Gavin Robinson MP)

Transcript

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I take full responses for everything this government has been doing in tackling coronavirus and I'm very proud of our record. Hence the thousands of our citizens have died avoidably. These were unnecessary death because of systematic government miss ponder with good British common sense, we will continue to defeat this virus and take this country forward. There were a lot of green shoots opportunity on. You know, we've been held down on pie floor