End The Dictatorial Lockdown (with Graham Stringer MP)

It's a year since Boris Johnson first told people to stay at home, at the beginning of a crisis that has cost the lives of more than 126,000 Britons, destroyed jobs and business and caused the worst recession in 300 years.Graham Stringer, Labour MP for Blackley and Broughton tells Bloomberg Westminster's Caroline Hepker and Roger Hearing it's time to end the restrictions now that more than half the adult population have been vaccinated. Stringer adds that he fears the government has taken dictatorial powers and it has gone to their heads.Plus Katharina Hauck, reader in health economics and deputy director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics at Imperial College, joins to discuss the cost of the lockdown and its unequal impact. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.