steve baker, thank you very much indeed for your time today. we appreciated, thank you.s mason is at westminster, we have to start with the vaccine news, a great day for british science and for everyone who signed up to this oxford vaccine, isn't it? yes, incredibly exciting news is how borisjohnson tweeted his reaction to this vaccine news in the last couple of hours. he still hold up, of course, in there, in self—isolation, until thursday morning, completing what will be about a ten day stint, having come into co nta ct about a ten day stint, having come into contact with a conservative mp who later tested positive. what we are going to get in the next couple of days, news on the tiers system returning in england, and the geography of how that will play out, plus, we help, news around christmas, the strategy for what it does between now and when the various vaccines come properly onstream, because of course they have to go through regulatory checks, and then there's the whole business of manufacturing them at scale before that starts to kick in, the government hopes, a

have got not only the covid—19 recovery group as they call themselves, this group of mps led by steve baker very vociferous about the fact they want the government before their going to vote on any further restrictions, they want the government to provide cost benefit analysis per region of what this means because of the huge effect on peoplesjobs and means because of the huge effect on peoples jobs and livelihoods. means because of the huge effect on peoplesjobs and livelihoods. so there is that issue but if you have gotjesse norman there is that issue but if you have got jesse norman and the there is that issue but if you have gotjesse norman and the deans there is that issue but if you have got jesse norman and the deans were he —— the deans howie you know there is something in trouble. we know the government has you turned a lot on free school meals, nhs charges for migrant workers, i think there will be softening coming in next sketch! couple of days. where they say something like if you are in a village which is not affected at all, there will be listening even if you're ina all, ther

steve baker, who is the leader of the covid recovery group which is effectively the rebel contingentps, they are saying they are grateful the prime minister has been in touch but still they want the kind of analysis to say why we are going into these new stricter tears now. now what the telegraph is saying is that there is a promise of a sunset clause on the tier system on the 3rd of february which would give mps another vote at the end of january. which would give mps another vote at the end ofjanuary. well that is all very well but this is exactly the issue they are talking about now. they have a vote coming up on tuesday and what they want to see is some more detail about why they should tell their constituents that effectively local economies are going to go bust. 0k, well, the sunday express also goes with the same story. pm's promise to mps over virus. what do you make of this?|j think virus. what do you make of this?” think it's meaningless, like so many of the prime minister's announcements. it's a piece of empty rhetoric. they can have a vote on it because it is nigeljust se

and you know that there is a group called the micro recovery group led by steve baker and the former chief with commitment are a vociferous and recent weeks about holding government to account say they are not going to vote for for the restrictions less the government explains clearly cost—benefit analysis of bringing in new and opposing restrictions. the rebellion brewing and even some of the government own ministers. this is probably going to be a little bit of movement on this, it will be do need to remember though is the rate is coming down, good news in the vaccine front and be careful not to throw away all the good work that has been done so far but a really good tough time for businesses for people stuck in their homes for a weeks and months to come stop by interesting to see if there is movement, ali, because ultimately one of the things is the premise or once a simplicity as everyone understood what was happening. if you were in a tier what was happening, we did not have the situations where one road has these restrictions and of the road had different restrictions. but as a

the weekend as well it will be interesting to see what those back benches and others have to say steve baker, former brexit minister, one as well. there is some form of support from the leader of the labor opposition party as well with those labor votes, it looks like the key vote on thursday about extending these restrictions about going into a second lockdown, it looks like it will pass, despite there's a whole lot of people who think the cure for the covid issue we are seeing will create a hole host of other illnesses, mental health, for the huge waiting list i'm just outside st. thomas' hospital, one key london hospital, the hospital where boris johnson received treatment for covid as well. there are grave concerns what it means for a whole host of illnesses and the economy itself whether we can afford it, afford the furlough scheme, which started today. that was contentious for the northern assemblies, the red wall mps who breached those labor seats in the general election last year as well a lot of them saying, why didn't we get this earlier? why didn't he we get this support earlier?

once the baker said the levels of authoritarianism on display were appalling —— steve baker said.sment of the impact of these measures before mps the impact of these measures before m ps vote the impact of these measures before mps vote next week which downing street has confirmed that it will do. and another, graham brady, the tory chairman of the 1922 backbench committee, saying it was unfair that so committee, saying it was unfair that so many committee, saying it was unfair that so many areas were committee, saying it was unfair that so many areas were being lumped together, parts of england where cases of the virus were relatively low, bundling it with nearby areas where they were higher. but i think the fact is that that is just all priced in out of the prime minister has come to the view however relu cta ntly a nd has come to the view however reluctantly and warily that there is simply no alternative to putting large parts of the country under tough restrictions for perhaps many more months until the spring next year when the government clearly hopes that vaccines will be i

mentioned ideological reasons but certainly, infringements of personal liberty is reading some people, steve baker the european research group, now a leading light in the crg, covid recovery group, talking about the authoritarianism of the government, public measures they are introducing and he is very good at organising rebellions, he has a track record. the other reason i think people are upset, not definitely going to rebel but thinking about it, they are worried about the tiered system has been imposed, in kent, lancashire, lincolnshire, all being lumped together into tier 3 and yet within those counties, prevalence of the virus is low in some areas, high in others and they say the government should take a far more localised approach and a pile of former cabinet ministers who are making these points, including greg clark, damian green, they will meet the health secretary matt hancock in the coming days to press their views, set against all of this, perhaps unsurprising earlier this morning the communities secretary robert jenrick tried to give people some cause for hope and he said we are goin

quite a lot of conservative mp5 speaking out against the restrictions including steve baker, behind whatincredibly low prevalence of the virus and this has upset for example some former cabinet ministers, greg clark, damian green, mp5 for kent, who say it isa damian green, mp5 for kent, who say it is a big county, the virus is at different stages across the county, white lump everywhere together, this one size fits all approach has upset conservative politicians in lincolnshire and lancashire. robert jenrick the communities secretary on this programme earlier defended that way of doing things, he said it was much better to do that than at a very local level but he held out some hope that there will be a review on december the 16th of the measures which have been imposed and he suggested it will be possible at that stage, for people to move between tiered systems. he said the review would be meaningful and we could see at least some hope for people still scratching their heads before christmas. there will be a meaningful review on or around the 16th of december. at that point we will revi

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baker and ashley parker and ben rhodes. let's go back to the big board and national political correspondent steve kornacki. what's going on in georgia with the sonny perdue case? >> we keep watching this presidential race tighten in georgia as more of those votes come in. 13,000 trump's lead over biden, but the senate race also is tightening. not in a way -- it's not about is ossoff going to catch perdue here. it's about this perdue number which we have at 50.0 right now. if that drops anywhere below 50.0, 49.9, then there's a runoff election. you have to get 50% to win the election outright for a senate race in georgia. otherwise, perdue versus ossoff becomes a runoff. just the situation here in. we keep talking about biden drawing closer and closer to trump in the presidential race with these votes being counted in georgia. we're not sure if biden is going to overtake trump and win the state, but it does seem likely he's going to get a little closer. and if this goes any closer, we've got to work out the decimal points to see if you work it out enough, this could be under 50 right now. anything under 50,