Episode Details

From the enforced lockdown to the exit strategy, what powers does the Government need to deal with COVID-19 – and how should it use them? The lockdown decision introduced some of the most stringent restrictions on ordinary life since World War II, and public and police have struggled to understand where Government guidance on the lockdown differs from the law. How might restrictions change? What level of parliamentary scrutiny will be required? And how can the Government ensure that its response to the pandemic is within the law?

Dr Catherine Haddon, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government, is joined by:

• David Allen Green, lawyer and journalist 
• Tom Hickman QC, Reader in Public Law at UCL and Barrister at Blackstone Chambers
• Raphael Hogarth, Associate at the Institute for Government

Audio production by Alex Rees

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