Chopper’s Politics Podcast: Geoffrey Cox and Jeremy Hunt

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On Shakespeare’s birthday, mellow-voiced former Attorney General, Geoffrey Cox QC, makes a return to the podcast with stirring readings to raise the spirits. Don’t say we don’t treat you.

And former Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt MP, tells The Telegraph’s Chief Political Correspondent, Christopher Hope how the government could have been better prepared in their pandemic preparations, and why contact tracing is so important. Plus he tells us why Health Secretary Matt Hancock was right to promise 100,000 tests per day.

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