want to risk the health of people in order to buzz up the economy, which i complete the understand needs it. and i think life matters more than the economy at the moment. just out of interest, you've been shielding, and if you are to get a letter in the next few days or weeks saying you are free to move around now, would you trust that, would you continue to stay at home? not yet, not yet. the only thing we have done in these months, i haven't seen my family, i haven't seen my doctor. it was only saturday i finally, we drove to liverpool, saw her at a distance where she lives, and drove back. that's a lot of done. it's desperately hard for so many people. appreciate that. the i has a pole or reports unable to give the thumbs down on the prime minister's handling of the pandemic, madeline. this comes off the back of professor

neil ferguson, who helped shape the response, saying lockdown one week earlier could've halved the death toll. it appears, though, this was premature. what do you make of this poll? on the neil ferguson point, given his various modelling were shown to be so wildly off the mark initially in this was not at all packed up in the sage minutes, he had not been raising those particular warnings, they had been pushing for the light on exactly when it happened and it actually turns out there were more people, people like dominic cummings, who we re people like dominic cummings, who were super hawkish on the lockdown which is not the narrative we were given to quite a long time, but i'm not at all surprised to see public opinion has slumped on this one because it has felt like for weeks there's been an apathy or dithering, feeling schools have been neglected, a lot of campaigning going on and

there have been majorfeelings on testing and the care homes. initially, there is a feeling of wartime spirit and collectivism, and in these times of crisis, around the world, the incumbent leader tends to have very high poll ratings and that will inevitably decline was the reality of the situation sets in if people were led to that lockdown would be temporary and it's ended up dragging on for longer than expected, and some people who are perhaps initially quite happy on furlough are now beginning to worry more and more about the future, sol think this is partly explained by the government's patchy record but it's also partly inevitable we would see this plummeting. yasmin, do you agree it was inevitable the pulling would drop so significantly?” think, madeline, you're being too kind to our prime minister and cabal

here. there have been so many failures. anything the people of this country on the whole, most people of this country, have behaved so people of this country, have behaved so responsibly, have done the right thing over and over so responsibly, have done the right thing overand overand so responsibly, have done the right thing over and over and over, i've been astonished by that, actually, how prepared people were to do the right thing for the sake of the national health service, for the sake of society. and i'm sorry, but i think sake of society. and i'm sorry, but ithink our sake of society. and i'm sorry, but i think our leadership has failed them and it's not because i am of them and it's not because i am of the opposite political persuasion. i really do feel... say some really jeremy hunt, in a position of some influence, would have been a better person than some of the people we have in charge, including dominic cummings, who is in —— and unelected man accountable to

i'io —— and unelected man accountable to no one. he broke the rules, he broke the packed of this country. let's move voice from this story. the ft weekend. the headline here says finger points to china as australia suffers a state—sponsored cyber attack. that is not with the prime minister, scott morrison, has said but that is clearly what is being implied. because of the sophistication of the attack and the fa ct sophistication of the attack and the fact the ft reports that has been over many months and targeted governments and political organisations, business, education, so organisations, business, education, so given the sophistication and the range of the attack, they believe china is the culprit. it does make sense because this is at a time of ratcheting tensions between china and australia, after australia called for an investigation to the origins of coronavirus in wuhan and china has started a mini tariff war with the australians, retaliating

for their support of taiwan. there is been sabre rattling between australia and china, so i think that probably explains why some of the experts have referred —— inferred that. -- inferred that. let's have a look at the indian paper the weekend business standard. the clash between chinese and indian soldiers, killed 20. prime minister modi says no one entered the territory. what we thing of this one? they... i have no doubt at all it has been happening in australia, and certainly, any conflict between india and china would be a total catastrophe for

both countries. but at the moment, china seems... i'm no friend of modi, ithink china seems... i'm no friend of modi, i think he's an awful leader, but at the same time, china seems to be picking fights with even its own people in hong kong but also doing a lot of stuff globally which are terrifying for some kind of world stability, i think it. ok, terrifying for some kind of world stability, ithink it. ok, we terrifying for some kind of world stability, i think it. ok, we will move away from that story and to the daily telegraph, women are being overlooked in the recovery plan, government are being warned. we've seen some government are being warned. we've seen some in articles commenting on how women seem to have taken a step backwards, madeline, during the pandemic, with them bearing the brunt of childcare, still working from home, cooking, cleaning, etc. it's presented in the news as well. it's presented in the news as well. it's true. i don't have children, my

friends who do, having an absolute nightmare of a time. we published an open letter from nightmare of a time. we published an open letterfrom a nightmare of a time. we published an open letter from a series of highly influential women in public life, the city luminaries, and also some p°p5 the city luminaries, and also some pops sports women, including judy murray, gabby logan, and they kind of come together to urge the government to consider how the coronavirus is weighing unequally on women and if sending ovens —— seven steps a re women and if sending ovens —— seven steps are taken —— significant steps... all this talk of, we are all in this together, it hasn't weighted equally at all. and as women are more likely take up the burden of housework and taking care of the children, they are also more

likely to work in sectors that have been shut down during the pandemic and were looking to be furloughed, so and were looking to be furloughed, sol and were looking to be furloughed, so i think they stand to gain from easing of restrictions as we come out of lockdown, but what this article says is women are living out article says is women are losing out on more fronts. let's move on. there seems to be a green light coming for holidays for some countries, yasmin. yes, this is the express. bless the express. i don't think so. i think everything is so uncertain at the moment, the break—outs are coming, settling, and countries are frightened. we are frightened. we have got this quarantine policy for people coming to this country... the language has

shifted, talking about air core doors and countries we could be travelling to —— air corridors. trying to get some kind of tourism going. look at trying to get some kind of tourism iei trying to get some kind of tourism m—mm