(uplifting music)
- [Publisher] We're extremely excited to announce
that following his bestselling books
on the Emperor Augustus and Winston Churchill,
the long-awaited. (crowd whoops)
Yes, the very long-awaited biography of Shakespeare
by Boris Johnson will finally be published in April 2020.
(crowd cheers and applauds)
- [Reporter] Are you going to go for the leadership?
- [Boris] Well, do you know, um,
yeah, of course, we're gonna go for it.
(intense music) (glass breaking)
- [Carrie] Get off me. Get off my fucking laptop.
- [Neighbor] Hello? Are you okay in there?
- [Carrie] Get out of my flat.
(camera shutters snapping)
- [Newsreader] Boris Johnson dodging reporters
as he left this south London flat this morning.
- [Reporter] Have you ruined your chance
of becoming prime minister, Mr. Johnson?
- Dignity still matters in public life.
And Johnson will never have it.
(camera shutters snapping)
- [Newsreader] Neighbors allege they heard a row
between the Tory leadership front runner
and his partner, Carrie Symonds.
- [Reporter] Why were police outside your house last night?
-For many of us, his, his elevation will signal
Britain's abandonment of any claim
to be a serious country.
- [Returning Officer] Boris Johnson is elected
as the leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party.
(party members applaud)
(regal music)
(crowd roaring)
(regal music continues)
(engines drone)
(helicopter rotor chatters)
«I have a hunch that Johnson will come to regret
securing the prize for which he's struggled so long.
- I have just been to see Her Majesty, the Queen,
who has invited me to form a government.
And so I am standing before you today to tell you
the doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters,
they are going to get it wrong again.
(staff applauding)
- [Boris] As Churchill said about the moment
when he finally took over as prime minister,
"I felt as though I was walking with destiny,
all my life was a preparation for this hour and this trial.”
As your prime minister, I command you.
- [Carrie] Aren't you tired?
- Never! Power is an aphrodisiac.
And absolute power is absolutely aphrodisiacal.
(Carrie squeals)
(intense music)
(helicopter rotor chatters)
- [Newsreader] A nation divided, and a Tory party divided,
over the issue of Brexit.
Today the possibility that parliament might be prorogued,
closed down for more than a month,
the longest suspension since the Second World War.
(protestors chanting)
- [John Bercow] Order.
- The ayes to the right, 328,
the nos to the left, 301.
(MPs cheer and jeer)
- [Labour MP] Not a good start, Boris.
- [John Bercow] Order. (camera shutter snaps)
- When are you fucking MPs gonna realize,
we are leaving on October 31st?
- While the opposition run, they cannot hide forever.
- Mr. Speaker, the Lords,
who are authorized to declare prorogation of parliament.
- [MPs] No!
(opposition MPs jeering) {camera shutters snapping)
- The decision to advise Her Majesty to prorogue parliament
was unlawful.
- [Dom] We need a plan for the election.
- [Isaac] If they vote for one.
- Oh, there'll be one, it can't go on like this.
- What, the people versus parliament?
- Exactly, the rebels don't realize
how much people in the real world hate them.
- So we need a simple message.
- "Take back control" won the referendum,
we need the equivalent for the election.
- Three words.
- Oh, is that the brief?
- Well, yeah.
- The prime minister.
(Conservative MPs cheer) {opposition MPs jeer}
- Come on, come on. Come on, then.
Everything was done with full propriety.
- [Newsreader] You have to declare an interest,
did you declare it?
- There was no, there was no interest to declare.
I'm very, very proud of everything that, uh, we did.
- Do not even think
about trying to talk to that woman, alright?
- [Photographer] Boris, Boris, straight ahead.
(camera shutter snaps)
- Good? - Yeah, very good.
Three words.
- You can run the campaign.
- Let's get Brexit done.
Let's get Brexit done.
Get Brexit done.
Let's get Brexit done.
(bricks clatter)
Enough, Let's get this done.
Get Brexit done.
We're going to get Brexit done.
Let's get Brexit done.
Let's get Brexit done,
and let's bring this country together.
- [Reporter] Boris!
(camera shutters snapping)
(soaring music)
- [Newsreader] The exit poll is predicting,
is indicating it's a big Conservative win.
(staffers cheering)
(cork pops)
(staffers continue cheering)
- We pulled 359, didn't we?
(camera shutters snapping)
- [Newsreader] Tonight Boris Johnson got a hero's welcome
at Conservative Party headquarters
after his landslide victory. ♪ Oh, Isaac Levido ;
I Oh, Isaac Levido /
♪ Oh, Isaac Levido ♪ - And here he is,
our prime minister for the next five years,
Boris Johnson! (activists cheering)
- Nice gesture, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you all. Thank you.
Thank you, when, when, when, when, when,
when, when, when,
When the Emperor Augustus had any sort of,
you know, military problem,
his first response, I imagine, was to say,
"Get Agrippa.”
(activists laugh)
In the Brexit referendum Dom Cummings has been my Agrippa.
(activists cheer)
And, and I think,
I think I heard somebody singing his name earlier,
in this election my Agrippa
has been played by Isaac Levido!
(activists cheer)
I Oh, Isaac Levido /
- Well, well, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, we did it.
We did it. (activists cheer)
We pulled it off, didn't we? We pulled it off.
We broke the deadlock. - Yes!
- We ended the gridlock. We smashed the roadblock!
(activists cheering)
And we'll use, and with this mandate and this majority
we are last able to do what?
- [Activists] Get Brexit Done!
- Ah, so you have been paying attention. Yeah.
Thank you. Very good. (activists laugh)
Now, less than six months ago, when I became your leader,
1 could only offer you, to quote a predecessor of mine,
blood, toil, tears, and sweat,
but now, less than six months later,
we can look forward to the broad, sunlit uplands.
Anew dawn is breaking. - Yes.
- 2020 will be a year of prosperity, growth, and hope.
(activists cheer)
(bats chirping)
{bats chirping continues)
(cleaver thuds)
(ominous music) (bats chirping)
Hello, it's Boris Johnson here, taking a moment
to wish you all a merry little Christmas.
- Maybe try it one more time,
just with a little bit more sparkle.
- (sighs) Okay.
Hello, it's Boris Johnson here, taking a moment
to wish you all a merry little Christmas.
It's that special time of year
when we can take that opportunity
to celebrate all that is good in the world,
and to spend time with our friends and family.
-For God's sake. -0i!
- What?
- Do you want white or red, Mum?
- Uh, red, please.
-I hope you're all enjoying a wonderful break
with your loved ones,
sharing gifts and tucking into some delicious food.
(cleaver thuds) (shoppers speaking Mandarin)
{ominous music)
- Oh. - There you go!
- [Charlotte] Wow.
- We actually have some news to tell you,
don't we, Boris?
- Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we do, we, we have
we have good news, which you can probably guess,
we are expecting a baby. (guests laugh)
Well, at least, uh... but it's all,
it's all gotta be top secret until tell all the kids.
So you know, you know, mum's the word, you know.
They'd kill me if they heard it first from the "Daily Mail."
Here's to it. Thank you so much.
- Cheers. - Cheers, cheers,
cheers, cheers, cheers. - Cheers.
- To you, congratulations.
- Cheers. - Thank you so much.
- That's okay. -I was desperate to tell you.
- What did you get them for Christmas?
- Oh books, mainly.
You know, it's so difficult to get out
and do the Christmas shopping, so I'm afraid
it was Waterstones Online for everyone, I'm afraid.
- We got Stephanie a signed copy of "Harry Potter.”
- Really?
- We didn't wanna leave her out.
- Carrie never saw her father at Christmas,
he was always with his other children.
- Christmas was always the hardest time for us
when Stanley and I separated.
- Well, I, I was pretty much grown up.
- It's probably the best thing
if you're going to divorce, hoarding school.
- I don't know how
you could bear to send your children away to school.
1 couldn't have managed without Carrie.
- Aw. - But, but, I mean, Lara,
Lara loved her school.
- She went to boarding school?
- Yeah, to Bedales.
- We're not sending ours away, just so you know.
- Uh, you're going away for the new year?
- Yes, we're going to Mustique.
- I'm so envious.
- You need the rest, you look tired.
- Although, you know I do...
I'm supposed to be trying to write that book
while I'm there. - Which book?
- You know the one on Shakespeare,
the, the one that was commissioned
for the 400th anniversary.
- No, but that was years ago.
- I know, I know, but the advance was 500K,
and that is three years of prime minister's money,
and we need the spondulicks, 50, you know, must do.
- You always did do everything at the last moment.
- Well, exactly, that's why I became a journalist,
‘cause I, I, Ineed a deadline, I need a deadline.
I need a deadline for this cracker.
And you are the woman with the deadline.
(cracker pops)
- [Queen Elizabeth] My family and I are also inspired
by the men and women in our emergency services.
(plate clatters)
- [Voicemail Service] Welcome to the 02 messaging service.
The person you are calling is unable to take your call.
Please leave your message after the tone.
{tone beeps) - Hello Lara, it's Dad here.
Just, just calling to, uh, wish you a very merry Christmas,
and I hope that you are having a lovely day.
- Of course, at the heart of the Christmas story
lies the birth of a child.
{tone beeps) - Hello Milo,
uh, it's Dad here,
just calling to wish you a merry Christmas.
- And overcome long held differences
and deep-seated divisions
to bring harmony and understanding.
(tone beeps) - Hello, Hello Cassia,
uh, it's Dad here,
just calling to wish you a merry Christmas,
and I hope that you are having a lovely day,
and I am sending lots of love, uh, Dad, bye.
{tense music)
Wine dark sea.
- What?
- It's what Homer always called it,
whenever he mentions the sea it's the wine dark sea.
It's like whenever he mentions dawn
it's rosy fingered dawn.
- Like you always saying, "Get Brexit done."
- Exactly, repetition, very respectable rhetorical device.
Very respectable rhetorical device.
(boat engine drones)
(water splashing) It's not bad, is it?
- Not bad. -ls it?
Pretty blooming good, yes.
(water splashing)
- [Announcer] Seven, six, five.
- [Crowd] Four, three, two, one.
- Happy New Year. (partygoers cheering)
(fireworks crackling) (glasses clinking)
- Happy New Year, everyone.
(fireworks crackle and whistle)
(upbeat music) - Cheers.
I We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet;
I For days of auld lang syne }
(fireworks crackle and boom)
(stirring music)
(siren bleats)
{tense music)
(medical staff speaking Mandarin)
(medical staff continue speaking Mandarin)
(birds chirruping)
(birds continue chirruping)
(gentle music)
- [Yogi] And come into prayer position.
And now step the right foot back,
Moving your arms into warrior two.
Look forward, arms straight.
{tense music)
- [Newsreader] China has informed
the World Health Organization
of a mysterious new SARS-like virus.
The cluster of cases are linked to a wet market
in the city of Wuhan.
The market has now been closed down.
(engine rumbles)
(phone ringing)
- Helena, can you get in touch
with our friends in the ministry,
and the Chinese Center for Disease Control,
see if they're writing up anything
on this new pneumonia outbreak?
- Yeah, of course.
- We don't want the "New England Journal"
getting hold of it before us.
« That would be terrible. {Richard chuckles)
- Ugh, do you have to work?
- Yeah, on, on, on, on the Shakespeare, you know.
- (scoffs) God!
We're here to rest and recuperate.
- "If you cannot understand my argument,
and declare 'lt's Greek to me,' you are quoting Shakespeare.
If you claim to be more sinned against than sinning,
you are quoting Shakespeare.
If you act more in sorrow than in anger,
if your wish is father to the thought,
if your property has vanished into thin air,
then you are quoting Shakespeare."
- What does he have to say about sex?
- Loved it. - Oh, right, good.
- Any time, any place, anywhere.
- Is that Shakespeare too?
- No, no that's an old Martini advert.
-Oh. - Bit before your time.
- Massively.
- [Dom] There are some profound problems
at the core of how the British state makes decisions.
Failure is so normal it is not defined as failure anymore.
We want to hire an unusual set of people,
with different skills and backgrounds
to work in Downing Street.
-I'm new, attached to the policy department, Ben Warner.
- We want to hire some very clever young people,
with extreme curiosity and capacity for hard work.
- First set of stairs, then left and right,
and you should be good, okay? - Thank you.
(phone ringing)
(vomit splashes)
(Dylin barks) (Carrie retches)
(Dylin whines and barks)
- Borris, can you deal dog, please?
(Dylin barking) Boris!
- Yes, yes, yeah, I, are you okay?
(Dylin barks) - Yeah.
- Come on Dylin, come on.
Dylin, out, out, out, out, out, out, out.
This way, come on, come on.
Bloody difficult, there's it, come on,
there's it, come on.
{tense music)
- [Dom] We need some true wildcards,
artists, people who never went to university,
weirdos from William Gibson novels.
Like that girl hired by Bigend as a brand diviner,
who feels sick at the sight of Tommy Hilfiger.
And if you don't fit in, I'l get rid of you within weeks.
I'm telling you this now, $0 you can't complain later.
(staff chattering indistinctly)
(phone ringing)
- Hello, I'm Ben Warner.
-And?
- I'm working here.
- Who says?
- I start today.
- This is my department, and you don't work here.
- Dominic Cummings told me to start today.
- Well tell Dom he'd better find you in office, then.
There's no space in here.
(staff chattering indistinctly)
- Okay, we're gonna keep this short.
Uh, the PM got back from Mustique last night,
So there is no media activity planned for today.
-And his diary's being kept empty for the same reason.
-Dom? - We don't want
the prime minister's diary to be clogged up with stuff.
We don't wanna be distracted by events.
We wanna focus on long term strategy.
(Dylin barks)
- Sorry, would you, would you mind trying dog-wrangle him?
Would you bind the mighty Cerberus
and take him outside for a piss?
Oh come on Dylin, for God's sake-
- [Aide] Happy New Year, Prime Minister.
- Happy New Year, good to see you.
- [Aide] Happy New Year, Prime Minister.
- Happy New... where is that bloody dog?
Hello, hello, all. Happy New Year, by the way.
- [Staff] Happy New Year, Prime Minister.
- Yell if you see him, you know what he looks like.
Come on you... little beggar.
- [John] Good morning, Prime Minister.
- Nice to see you, John. - Morning.
- Yeah, good to see you.
Okay.
Well done.
Well done. You have him well and truly wrangled.
You might just need that as well, okay.
Really, it'll be fine. Thank you so much.
(intense music)
Hey, Lucia, how are you?
Well rested, I hope. - Morning, Prime Minister.
- Good on you.
- [Aide] I'd quite like to see you.
- Okay.
Hello, kids. How are you?
Do you like the painting?
I painted that.
I did paint that, I did. You don't believe me do you?
But I did. Hello, Cleo, how are you?
- Morning, Prime Minister.
- You're looking very fresh.
- Ben, looking forward to the new term?
- New year, new me, welcome back.
- Oh, very good, I like that. Yep.
Hello, Martin, happy New Year. - Happy New Year,
Prime Minister. - Happy new year, Dom.
- Happy New Year, Prime Minister.
- Good rest?
- Good thinking time.
- Ah, good thinking time.
Any, uh, any New Year's resolutions?
-No.
- Hi Shirin, hi, um.
So, as anticipated,
I will not be coming in for any meetings in person.
Yeah, no, it's, uh, it's pretty obvious, yes.
- We are leaving Europe at the end of this month,
we need to keep the press focused on that.
- No, I agree. - We need to have
a few simple strategic goals. - Yeah, of course.
- This year free trade deal with Europe.
Free trade deal with America. - Yep, sure.
- Plus we have 12 months to put in place
the architecture of our new, independent institutions.
Those decisions will set our course for a generation.
- Oh yeah, a lot to do, Dom.
- We need to radically overhaul the way we govern,
and we need to start by clearing out the dead wood.
- From the cabinet?
- Cabinet's easy. Civil service is hard and crucial.
We need spads who can put a rocket under the civil service.
- We appointed most of the SPADs, as I recall.
- No cabinet reshuffle til the Brexit Bill goes through.
- You wanna, do you wanna draw up a few suggestions?
-It's along list.
(traffic roars) (keyboard clatters)
(phone rings)
- Morning. Right, shall we?
Let's do it? What have we, uh, what have we got?
- So far the winter's been mild,
$0 we've managed to avoid any major crises.
- Which was lucky for the election campaign.
- [Chris] There is the WHO report
of a new coronavirus outbreak in China.
- [Matt] Why is it always China?
- We're keeping an eye it.
Right,
(car horns blare) {tense music)
(medical staff speaking Mandarin)
{tense music continues)
(medical staff continue speaking Mandarin)
- Sorry, coming through. Sorry, thank you.
(spads chatter indistinctly)
(Dominic sighs)
- What a week.
Some of you will have seen my blog
advertising for your replacements.
In fact, all of you had better have read my blog.
Did anyone not read it?
We've already got two new recruits, stand up, Ben.
Ben is a data genius, he's the reason we won the referendum,
and the reason we won the election,
you have to understand the data.
That's what all these idiots
writing about politics don't get,
they think that standing in Westminster
talking to some politician is reporting.
That's why they get everything wrong.
Stand up, Andrew.
This is Andrew Sabisky, he's a superforecaster.
He is a thinker, the kind of thinker we need
to shake this place up a bit.
ARPA, Advanced Research Projects Agency,
what can we learn from their experience?
Failure doesn't matter.
Joseph Licklider was a visionary.
He gave great people resources and freedom.
That's what I'm gonna do with people like Ben and Andrew.
Science, data, and evidence-based policy
are gonna be at the heart of everything we do.
And remember all you spads are now my responsibility.
1 hire you, I fire you.
1 don't want any of you to go freelancing around town
trying to make your minister look good.
From now on everything they say
has gotta be approved by Number 10.
- [Newsreader] In Wuhan, a man has died
having caught the new virus,
which officials say comes from the same family
as the deadly SARS virus.
(medical staff speaking Mandarin)
- [George] Richard, hey.
- [Richard] George, good to see you.
limagine you've got a lot on there.
- We're busy, yes.
1 think the genome of the new virus will be shared tomorrow.
- Oh, that's fast. - On Virological,
we're trying to stay ahead of it this time.
Ithink everyone have learned lessons from the last SARS.
- And do you maybe have anything to publish?
- Could do, could do soon.
Also the "New England Journal" are chasing us.
{tense music)
- Good night, Mummy. - Good night, Mummy.
- Night night, I'll be up in a minute.
{tense music continues)
- [Newsreader] Thailand has reported
the first case of the Wuhan coronavirus
found outside of China.
The patient arrived at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport
from Wuhan last week with a high fever.
- What do we, uh, what do we know?
- Not a huge amount.
The WHO seem to be taking it pretty seriously.
But the, the problem is the Chinese,
you know, how can we tell exactly what is happening?
(email alert chimes)
{tense music)
- Tim.
- [Newsreader] In other news in the region,
Japan has confirmed its first case of the Wuhan virus.
- Okay, uh, let's collect the basic numbers,
Wuhan population, and general Hubei population,
reported cases, number of people leaving Wuhan by plane,
and number of cases reported overseas.
- [Newsreader] International airports,
like this one in Tokyo,
are already taking preemptive measures
to prevent the virus spreading.
- See, now, that looks impressive, but will it work?
- Unlikely. - Those suits look good tough,
don't they?
They're, they're very "E.T."
- [Newsreader] The first case of the SARS coronavirus
has been reported in South Korea.
{tense music)
- Morning, Professor. - Morning.
- The Chinese have done the work on the genome,
1 think we should start on a vaccine.
- Don't you think we should wait,
to see how the virus is gonna spread?
- We've been wanting to try
a rapid vaccine development program,
so this would be a good trial,
even if the virus doesn't spread,
we can take the work we've done on the MERS vaccine,
and apply it to SARS CoV2, they are very similar viruses.
- Okay.
(siren blares)
- [Newsreader] The WHO has reported that it is possible
there is human to human transmission
of the SARS coronavirus.
(siren blares) (tense music)
(engine roars)
- The data coming out of China is pretty incomplete.
- As always.
- But we've been working
with the Chinese government and researchers,
distributing an electronic case record form,
to get the building blocks
for detailed mapping and modeling.
- Even with the incomplete data, we're pretty certain
that person to person transmission is happening,
and that the reproductive rate is above one.
- At the moment, it looks like the incubation period
is between five to 10 days,
which means that the safe time after contact,
14 days would be a sensible outer limit.
- [Newsreader] A whole city has been closed down.
This is Wuhan, in the Hubei province of China.
Public transport, the airport, and train stations
are closed until further notice.
(resident singing in Mandarin)
- [Newsreader] The shutdown has come
just before the Chinese New Year,
when millions of people travel back to their homes.
The authorities in Beijing
are now canceling plans for the celebrations.
- So Helena, we're publishing the first four papers today,
including the one on human-to-human transmission.
That's the big one. - Great,
- Say thank you to George. They've been so fast.
(phone ringing)
- Jamie, it's happening, let's go.
- Where we going?
- Cabinet Office Briefing Room A.
- Oh-hoo-hoo.
- There are five basic scenarios.
China could contain it
and it never achieves community transmission outside China.
- That's our preferred option.
- Or it spreads outside of China,
and it stays as deadly and as transmissible.
Or it becomes less transmissible and less deadly,
just because of the way these viruses mutate.
Or it could become more transmissible and less deadly.
The nightmare scenario
is that it becomes more transmissible and more deadly.
It's unlikely, viruses live to breed.
They live to survive.
It's not actually in a virus's interest to be overly deadly,
because they then kill their host before they can spread.
- Right, so, so what can we do
to contain the virus in China?
- We have the PHE incident response teams.
We could send a team to China.
- I, I think that's gonna be very difficult.
The Chinese like to sort these things out themselves.
(children singing in Mandarin)
(drums beat) (cymbals clash)
(camera shutters snapping)
- Wow, wow, yes. That was excellent, excellent.
(crowd applauding)
- [Reporter] Mr. Hancock, what's the government doing
about this view coronavirus?
- Well, uh, I chaired the meeting of COBRA today
to discuss coronavirus,
and we agreed that the risk to the UK public remains low.
- [Reporter] Mr. Hancock, what measures did the government-
- [Reporter] Any more data from Wuhan? Mr. Hancock?
- Hi, lan, how you doing?
- Very well, thank you, Prime Minister.
- Imran, good to see you.
Hey, Dom, how are you?
(mellow music)
- [Lawyer] Marina will get most of the money
from the house in Islington.
- And, and what do I get?
- [Lawyer] The place in Thame.
(Boris sighs)
You don't like it?
-No, I do like the house in Thame,
it's just it's, you know, it's not exactly worth that much.
- [Lawyer] Well, you get money as well, it adds up to 50-50.
- [Newsreader] It's getting closer.
Today, France reported its first case
of the new SARS-like coronavirus.
- The latest numbers from the Chinese
now suggests an R number up to three,
which is pretty much in line with our estimate
of somewhere between 2.6 and 3.5.
The data is pretty thin.
- That seems very high.
- What that means is,
we would need to cut these reproduction numbers by 60%
to be able to deal with it.
- Ifthe Chinese numbers are accurate, Neil.
-A 60% cut is drastic.
- You'd have to shut up shop, basically.
- Like the lockdown in Wuhan?
- Exactly.
- [Newsreader] Beijing has confirmed the number of people
who have died from a new type of respiratory virus in China
has now passed 40. (machines beeping)
- We've now got the test developed in Oxford up and running
in our lab in Colindale.
- Incredible, I mean, we hadn't even heard of this virus
three weeks ago.
Now, we've set up an incident management team,
reporting to Yvonne.
- Are you sure you want to use the word pandemic?
Because it is going to be big news if you say this.
- When you look at the international air traffic
out of the city, the number of infections,
there is definitely going to be a pandemic.
- [Tour Guide] As recently, 1987, the minster was on fire.
It was struck by a bolt of lightning,
(tourist coughing) the south transept
consumed by flames. {tourist coughing)
There were hundreds of firefighters here,
working tirelessly.
- [Newsreader] In Geneva today, the world was put on alert.
This virus should be taken seriously.
- I'm declaring a public health emergency
of international concern.
(plane engine roaring)
(passengers chattering)
{tense music)
(patient coughing)
(phone ringing)
{tense music continues)
- [Caller] Hi Jamie, sorry to call you so early.
- [Jamie] It's here, isn't it?
- [Newsreader] Coronavirus is confirmed in the UK.
The patients, both Chinese members of the same family,
fell ill whilst in York.
- How long is the incubation period?
- According to Wuhan figures,
between two and 11 days. - Yeah.
- And what about fatality rate?
It's hard to say. Somewhere between 0.5 and 3%.
- That's a big range.
- Did everyone see the "Lancet" article?
- Yes, last night. - Yeah.
- Yes, Gabriel's paper has been peer reviewed.
We think it's very important
to get this information out there.
- [Newsreader] Two Chinese tourists in Rome
are the first confirmed cases of coronavirus in Italy.
Italy has banned all flights from China.
- This tweet, from last Saturday, piqued our interest.
- [Tweeter] Holy mother of God,
the new coronavirus is a 3.8.
How bad is that reproductive RO value?
It is thermonuclear pandemic level bad.
I'm not exaggerating.
- Are you sure you're not? No even a little?
- [Journalist] So, have you got anything for us?
- Yes, I have, coronavirus.
We've got a plane load of people flying in from Wuhan today.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
- Shoot it down, then that'd be a story.
(all laughing)
- [Boris] Is everybody ready?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Right. Tonight we are leaving the European Union.
For many people this is an astonishing moment of hope,
a moment they thought would never come.
This is the moment when the dawn breaks,
and the curtain goes up on a new act
in our great national drama.
- It's seven o'clock, this is "Sky News Tonight."
Our top story, 83 Britons landed back in the UK
having been flown out of Wuhan on a special flight
chartered by the UK government.
For the next fortnight
they'll stay at an NHS facility in Birkenhead,
where they'll remain in quarantine.
(crowd chattering)
- We've done many things,
but we can't turn the clock back, can we?
-No.
- Was it you that blabbed to the press about quarantine?
- Yes.
- Who the do you think you are?
Today's Brexit Day.
We don't want "News at 10" splashing a bunch of nobodies
being driven to the fucking Wirral.
- We thought it was important
for the public to know we're taking it seriously.
- Bullshit, I don't a fuck what you think.
- [Crowd] Two, one.
(crowd cheers) ("Land of Hope and Glory")
- This royal throne of kings, this sceptered Isle.
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars.
This other Eden, demi-paradise.
This fortress built by nature for herself
against infection and the hand of war.
This happy breed of men and women.
This little world.
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
which serves it in the office of a wall,
or as a moat defensive to a house
against the envy of less happier lands.
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
(crowd cheering)
("Land of Hope and Glory" continues)
(crowd continues cheering)
- [Spads] Dom, Dom, Dom, Dom, Dom, Dom, Dom, Dom,
Dom, Dom, Dom, Dom.
- Speech, speech. - Go on, Dom.
- We, uh, we took back control tonight.
- Yes. - I want you to know
that this is a fantastic moment for our country.
There are very few moments in our lives
which can be genuinely referred to
as an historic turning point, but this is one.
Uh, thank you. - Well done Dom!
(crowd cheering)
(announcer speaking Mandarin)
- [Newsreader] The Chinese whistleblower, Li Wenliang,
is still in hospital and has been put onto a ventilator.
- [Newsreader] The UK is shipping
thousands of items of PPE to China,
to help them fight the coronavirus outbreak.
- [Newsreader] Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan has opened
after being built in just 10 days.
- We now estimate the incubation period
to be between two to 14 days,
a generation time, which is the time
between the infection of a primary case
and one of its secondary cases,
is estimated at six to seven days.
It's a reasonable hypothesis that the epidemic in China
is still growing exponentially,
doubling every four to five days.
We should expect there to be
sustained community transmission outside China.
- Did you do the sums on blocking flights from China?
- SPI-M found that if we were to reduce
the number of imported infections by 50%,
we would maybe delay the onset of an epidemic in the UK
by about five days.
- [Newsreader] Hong Kong's first coronavirus death
was a 39-year-old man
who went to hospital the day he returned
from the Wuhan epicenter.
But in that short time, it seems he infected his mother.
- We would recommend that symptomatic patients
are encouraged to wear a surgical face mask,
provided that can be tolerated.
- [Newsreader] Li Wenliang has died.
For most of his life,
Li Wenliang was a successful, but anonymous
ophthalmologist, father, and husband
based in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
But over the past two months,
the 34-year-old has become a household name in China,
known to hundreds of millions of people
as the face and conscience
of its spiraling coronavirus crisis.
News of his death has been met
with an extraordinary nationwide outpouring
of grief and anger on social media.
(somber music)
- Right, this is what we know so far.
From the 18th to the 23rd of January,
Steve Walsh attended a conference in Singapore.
Also attending was a man from Wuhan,
who has since been diagnosed with coronavirus.
Now, on the 24th Steve flew back to London,
then directly to Geneva.
He stayed for one night in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains,
and then to a chalet
in the ski resort of Contamines-Montjoie.
(snow crunching) (Steve coughing)
He was with a group of 10 friends in his part of the chalet,
and then there was a family with three children
in that same chalet.
On the night of the 24th of January
he developed moderate symptoms,
and was symptomatic during the rest of his stay in France.
He continued to stay in France and ski.
And he flew back from Geneva on the 28th of January.
- Chris, what do we know about the others in the chalet?
- [Chris Wormald] Well, we have four British tourists
in isolation in French hospitals, along with two children.
They're all reported to have respiratory problems.
They're all being tested for coronavirus.
More than 100 contacts have been identified,
and the children's schools have now been closed.
- [Matt] Britain is leading the way in testing.
Testing around the world is being done
on equipment designed here, in this country.
- [Peter] We have two or three labs here,
there are hundreds round the country
that could be getting ready to run tests.
-I don't know, all I can say is that current policy
is that all testing has to be done through our laboratories.
- This is going to be an epidemic,
having only one lab is crazy.
- What is SAGE doing?
What is our Chief Medical Officer doing?
What is our Chief Science Advisor doing?
Have they read the papers we published?
Have they listened to what Tedros is saying?
This is a public health emergency of international concern,
what are we doing?
What is the government doing?
- Where, where are we at on testing?
- We are up and running at Colindale.
Right?
- It's the fastest deployment of a novel test in UK history.
- Good. What about other labs?
- One issue is that the virus
is categorized as an HG3 pathogen,
so only containment level three labs
can handle the material.
Any lab has to be able to get the samples,
transport them safely, get the results,
feed the results back to PHE and the NHS.
- Well, we could use NHS labs.
Could, could we do that?
- We are extending to 12 new labs across the country.
+ Mm-hmm, - Which will eventually
raise our capacity to 1,000 tests a day.
- Right, that's what we need, is it?
That's great. - It's fantastic.
- [Newsreader] In Korea, test kits
capable of results in six hours
become available at 50 health centers
throughout the country.
(spads chattering)
- Next week is Valentine's Day.
You all know what that's famous for, don't you? A massacre.
So half of you can expect to be looking for a job.
I hope you all know which half you are in.
For all those spads who are staying,
it is worth reflecting on the deep principles
that actually determine why things work and do not work.
Most ministers tend to think of management, like science,
as a rather lowly skill, beneath their Olympian status.
I assume you've read my paper on the Apollo program,
and the lessons we can take from that
and apply to government.
We will only improve the performance of government
if we reflect on what expertise really is,
and why do some very successful fields
cultivate it effectively,
while others, like government, do not.
We need to select much higher quality people.
It's insane that people as ignorant and limited as me
can have the influence we do in the way that we do.
Why are you not writing this down?
- Fucking Apollo program, what are load of crap.
- It's like some medieval court, and he's Thomas Cromwell.
- That'd make Boris Henry VIII.
He'd actually make quite a good Henry VIII.
- Mm-hmm. - Who's a Anne Boleyn, then?
Is that Carrie?
- Not that Boris has the same problem
in the, uh, procreation department as old Henry.
-No.
- So, you for the chop?
- Uh, yeah, I imagine so.
1 think Cummings wants to get rid of anyone
who's close to Carrie.
- [Newsreader] South China Agricultural University
in Guangzhou says that two of its researchers
have identified the pangolin
as the potential source of the novel coronavirus.
(rain splatters)
- [Newsreader] For the people of Mytholmroyd,
Storm Ciara has brought an unwanted dose of deja vu.
Here, and in neighboring towns
along the banks of the River Calder,
the torrential rain
has left dozens of homes and businesses flooded.
(water splashes)
{tense music)
- Welcome to our first meeting
to plan for the expected coronavirus epidemic.
As you all know, NHS declared the virus
a level four critical incident at the end of January,
for the first time ever.
So we need to start thinking about
how we organize ourselves.
Obviously this is Joe's specialty, so.
- Yeah, uh, thanks Sally.
As most of you already know,
I worked in Africa during Ebola.
Now, the absolutely key thing is to organize the hospital
to prevent infection spreading.
So that means early testing,
and isolation wards for those testing positive.
You also need a heck of a lot of PPE.
- PHE have issued guidelines on this.
We don't need the full Ebola-style PPE,
just fluid repellent gowns, FFP3 masks,
and goggles or visors.
- Did they say why?
«No. - Well, makes my job easier.
We'll never be able to source the other stuff anyway.
(siren wails)
- Right, today we're gonna be focusing
on some of the big changes
I want to be seeing happening in this place.
Sometimes it's like swimming through treacle,
I need to cut through stagnation.
- What about the floods?
- What about them?
- Well, there's gonna be calls
for the PM to visit the worst affected areas.
-No, no, no, it'll look like we're responding to events,
rather than shaping them.
-Is the Secretary of State for the Environment
gonna announce any flood measures?
- No, she's not gonna announce anything.
This is a big week. We need to focus on the important stuff.
Cabinet reshuffle Thursday.
{tense music)
- Hello, hello, hello.
Good, good morning, good morning, good morning.
(phone rings) - Hello.
- [Carrie] Hello, it's Carrie,
You couldn't do me a favor, could you?
- Sure.
- Can you go and get me a tuna baguette from Pret?
You can use my card.
Thank you so much. Thank you.
Could you get us some milk as well?
Just ‘cause we've run out,
and Occado doesn't come till tomorrow.
- Sure. How are you?
- Yeah, good, good.
Um, could you take Dylin for me as well?
« Ah- -Is that alright?
- Okay. - He's just desperate
to go for a wee.
Oh, and also, just in case.
Right. Thank you, Colin.
- We're all agreed
the outbreak is close to peaking in Wuhan.
Data in the rest of China is more patchy.
It's vital we get as much data as we can from UK patients.
- Eight confirmed cases here at the moment,
all caught the virus abroad.
- We're recommending a tenfold increase
in Public Health England's test and trace capacity,
in order to extend the number of cases we can monitor.
- Yes, but we believe that contact tracing
may become potentially unsustainable
when the number of infections
resulted in more than 8,000 contacts
needing to be traced each day.
That would be for a total of 50 positive cases.
- World Health Organization says the disease
will now be officially called COVID 19,
and warned it could be 18 months
before the first vaccine becomes available.
- You know, we should get away.
We should have a break.
- Oh yeah, it's very claustrophobic,
being cooped up here all the time.
- Well we can go down to Chequers-
- No, no, it's so stuffy there.
- Okay, well, Chevening?
- Blast from the past. - Yes. Rev up the old engine.
Look, I could, I could talk to the kids,
1 could tell them the news,
and we could get it out to the press.
- [Reporter] How tight is Number 10's grip on power?
- The reshuffle billed as just another day,
officials huddling to make sure it's all in order.
- There is a possibility Sajid might resign,
and we wanted you to know that we were considering
asking you to become chancellor.
- On the condition that all the Treasury special advisors
are integrated into Number 10.
- Under your control?
- Yeah, and that you are happy for us
to honor the spending pledges made in the manifesto.
- Working with our Chinese colleagues,
we now believe the virus is infectious
during the incubation period.
- That has huge implications for transmission.
- Yes.
{tense music)
- [Dom] Get my message?
- Yeah. - Good.
I want you to get all your stuff out of here
in the next hour, I need your desk.
- I'm out.
- Shit. -And you.
- Uh, no, not yet.
(gravel crunches)
{birds calling) (keyboard clattering)
- [Newsreader] Resignation of the chancellor
- Oh, thank you, a rose.
- By any other name would smell as sweet,
ef cetera, et cetera.
I've gotta be honest, I was given that by a cook.
- Oh, don't spoil it.
- [Newsreader] Other high profile casualties-
- Happy Valentine's Day.
- Oh thank you.
Oh gosh, this is so embarrassing.
Oh, what's this?
A gift from Hermes, perhaps.
- Oh, it's exciting.
- Yes, the Greek god, not the fancy shop.
- [Newsreader] Labour have called for a full investigation-
-Oh, it is Hermes. Oh, I love it.
- Oh. Cleo thought you'd like it.
- Boris- - Listen, I can't go round
to Debenhams' perfume counter
sniffing the tester bottles, can 1?
- [Newsreader] Downing Street has also had to deal with
questions about who paid for Boris Johnson's accommodation
while he was on holiday on the Caribbean island of Mustique
over the New Year.
- Have they nothing better to do?
- It was David Ross, wasn't it?
- Yes, what do they expect me to do,
take a charter fight to Tenerife?
- [Newsreader] The villa, describing-
(mellow music)
(birds chirruping)
- [Reporter] If this was happening in London,
in some of these big cities,
closer to the politicians in Westminster more would be done.
I mean, where is the prime minister this week?
- [Carrie] If the children won't come down and visit,
you're just going to have to tell them by text or something.
- Well, they're, they're busy, I think.
- You have to tell them now, we agreed.
I'm not going back to hide away upstairs at that flat.
The mad woman in the attic.
- Mrs. Rochester.
1 know, I know, I know. 1just, I, you know,
I'd rather do it face-to-face is all.
- There's something else I want to say,
don't take this wrong way.
You know in your book on Churchill
you quote that letter from his wife,
where she starts, "I hope you will forgive me
if I tell you something that 1think you ought to know"?
- Yes.
- And you call it a superb letter,
shows how much she loves him.
And you say that she's totally bound up
in his life and career.
She writes, "There is a danger of your being disliked
because of your rough, sarcastic manner.
Your private secretaries have to take what's coming to them
if an idea is suggested.
You're so contentious that, presently,
no idea, good or bad, will be forthcoming.
You will not get the hest results
by irascibility and rudeness.
They will breed either dislike or a slave mentality.
-And?
- Well, don't you recognize it?
It's the perfect description of Dom.
She says that people
have always liked working for Churchill up until then.
And that is just like you.
People love working for you.
They hate him. - God.
- You'll be guilty by association.
- The prime minister will be at Chevening
for the next 12 days,
so all papers should be kept down to two sides at most,
one wherever possible.
He needs to recharge his batteries.
Our priority is to prepare the budget.
- The papers are running with Labour's efforts
on the Mustique holiday.
"Boris Johnson urged to fess up
over mystery £15,000 Caribbean holiday
after Tory donor denies paying for it."
- Westminster bubble stuff. They'll forget it by tomorrow.
- Yeah, because they'll have Storm Dennis everywhere.
We, we need to look like we're doing more than last week.
- We need long term policies, not short term fixes.
We need to think about the climate, not the weather.
-I'm so sorry if you've got the sack because of me.
- [Colin] Don't be silly.
1just, it looks like everyone who I know
has been pushed out.
- [Boris] Oh, Christ. (paintbrush rattles)
- You alright?
- Oh, I, uh, I've got a bit of the old black dog today,
as Winston used to call it.
- Well channel it into your art.
- Huh, right, my, uh, my blue period, yeah. Yeah.
(somber music)
I have of late, but wherefore I know not,
lost all my mirth.
(tone beeps) Lara, it's Dad.
It would be so lovely to see you.
We're at Chevening all week, so if anytime you are free,
if you wanted to pop down.
Something I, I, I'd like to talk to you about.
{tone beeps) Milo, Milo, Milo, it's Dad.
Look we're at Chevening all week,
it would be great to see you.
, uh, be lovely to have a chat with you.
{tone beeps) Hi Cass, it's Dad.
Um, I would love to see you. I'm down at Chevening.
- [Newsreader] "The Guardian" says
Labour's calling on Boris Johnson
to sack a new Downing Street aid
who's past pronouncements have caused outrage.
It's reported that six years ago,
27-year-old researcher Andrew Sabisky
proposed mandatory birth control
at the onset of puberty,
to avoid unplanned pregnancies creating an underclass.
He's also said to have claimed on Twitter
that Black Americans have a lower average IQ
than white people.
"The Telegraph" says it's spoken to an aide
to a senior cabinet minister- - Another one of
Dom's bright ideas.
This sort of stuff plays right into his hands.
Do you see that?
He's, he's this Maverick, this evil genius,
but this damages you. - Yes.
- You have to rein him in, let's clip his wings.
- Yes. I shall be the sun, and he Icarus.
- [Newsreader] Samples of British-grown rocket
contained a high level of nitrates,
which has been associated with types of cancer.
{toothbrush scratching)
- I mean, what, what the hell is going on?
We look like a bunch of amateurs.
- [Dom] No it's just wanker on Radio 4, moaning,
we should ignore it.
- Right, Sabitsky's got to go.
- [Dom] It's Sabisky.
-I don't, don't care what his bloody name is.
He's gotta go.
We can't have some nutter banging on about eugenics, can we?
- If we give into a bit of noise in the media,
we're always gonna be on the back foot.
We need people with radical ideas to shake up Whitehall.
- Right. Not those sort of radical ideas.
- I think It would be absolutely the wrong move to sack him.
Never apologize, never give in.
- No, Sabitsky apologizes, and he gives in.
- We currently have the capacity
to track and trace five new cases per week.
- That's not very many.
- We're estimating that would mean 800 contact traces.
Now we think we can ramp that up
to 8,000 contact traces per day, given the resources.
- So, 50 new cases per week.
- [Sharon] That's right.
- Obviously, if you look at the shape of the curve,
or the number of cases in China,
we're going to outstrip that extremely quickly.
-I agree.
Ithink we need to decide at what point contact tracing
should be stopped.
- Hi, Johnathon, we've got some wonderful news.
- We now have the genome for a potential vaccine.
- Brilliant.
- We've added the spike protein gene from SARS CoV2
to an adenovirus,
which triggers a T-cell and antibody response.
It's pretty simple.
- [Peter] The best things always are.
- So, we need to start manufacturing
ready for human testing.
- Ideally, we need to run
all the stages of the trial in parallel,
rather than sequentially. - I agree.
- So we need to find a manufacturer
willing to take the risk.
- [Patrick] John, school closures?
- SPI-M modeled school closures,
assuming children have a transmission role for COVID 19
similar to that of influenza,
the model found that school closures
could have a modest impact
on delaying the peak of an epidemic.
-If COVID is similar to influenza.
- Yes.
(tense music) (siren blaring)
- [Newsreader] Italy today reported
the first case of a European dying from coronavirus.
- So, are we agreed that we will recommend
that threat level remains at moderate.
- [Committee] Yes.
- Peter. (sighs)
{tense music)
- [Newsreader] Two months since COVID 19
spread out of Wuhan, Italy is silent.
Yesterday two Italians were the first Europeans
to die from the virus,
today another death has been confirmed.
In Milan, the world-famous Fashion Week
has been in the balance,
and in Venice, museums are shut
and the carnival was cut short.
There is a fear factor too, as a country tries to-
- What we need to determine is this,
for every person who gets sick,
how many other people are they likely to infect?
So, for seasonal flu, that's usually about one.
- Oh, it's a bit like homework, isn't it?
- I'm enjoying it.
- It's over three. -I'm more of a
Carry On man, myself. - Between four and six.
- "Carry on doctor," "Carry on up the Khyber,"
"Carry on Prime Minister."
- Boom, boom. (laughs)
{tense music)
- We believe that our current surveillance work
will enable us to detect any outbreak at its early stages.
This should provide evidence of an epidemic
about nine to 11 weeks before it peaks.
- Good, and you're gonna continue contact tracing
and find commercial solutions for testing in hospitals?
- Yes, and PHE National Infection Service
yesterday issued guidance clarifying
that elderly people should not be discharged from hospitals
into care homes
if there is risk of coronavirus transmission.
- Good.
(horns blare)
- 1 see this is the case of Wheeler and Johnson.
- [Newsreader] Lawyers today agreed a financial settlement
between the prime minister, Boris Johnson,
and his wife, Marina Wheeler,
paving the way for their divorce.
(soaring music)
- [Reporter] Back in Hereford,
the flood levels are now slowly receding,
but in neighboring Worcestershire
the threat of rising water remains
as we enter yet another night
of people being told to leave their homes.
- No one has ever used the weather
more dramatically or effectively than Shakespeare.
Think of the storms
that trigger the action in "The Tempest" and "Othello."
Think of King Lear wandering the heath,
abandoned by his daughter,
"Blow winds and crack your cheeks, rage, blow!
I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness.
I never gave you kingdoms, called you daughters,
then let fall your horrible pleasure.
Here I stand, your slave.
A poor, infirm, weak,
and despised old man.
(rain splashes) {gentle music)
(thunder rolls)
(engine drones)
- [Newsreader] The "Daily Mail" leads with the headline,
"Shotgun horror killing at Boris family estate.”
- Oh, for God's sake, if it's not one thing it's another.
(engine roars)
- [Newsreader] More deaths in Italy
as the world is told to get ready for a COVID 19 pandemic.
The markets take fright,
as the virus begins to dent the global economy.
- Well, the number of cases here is still very low.
However, what is happening in Italy is a warning.
- Okay. - And we believe
that we are a few weeks behind Italy.
- Yes, that's right.
- Okay. Okay, right.
- Morning. - Morning.
We've gotta get you out there.
- Yeah, but what do you want me to do?
I mean, do you want to get out my mop and bucket?
- Yes, 100%.
All of the papers are running with the idea
that you are living the life in a country mansion,
whilst everyone else is suffering.
- It's just weather, there's always weather.
- It's not just weather, look.
- Well, actually, that's not bad.
-These are once ina century fucking floods,
we can't look like we're ignoring them.
- Hospitals are starting to worry
about their levels of PPE. - Yeah.
- NHS supply chain is struggling.
- There's an EU procurement scheme starting tomorrow.
- Well, we've left the EU.
- We're still entitled to participate.
- We can do better than Europe.
We need to source it ourselves.
- In the reasonable worst case scenario,
80% of the UK population may become infected,
with an overall 1% fatality rate in those infected.
- Were you all agreed on these figures?
- Our projections haven't really changed that much
since the beginning.
- 1% Of 80% is in the order of 500,000 deaths.
We'd be overwhelmed.
- Dom, can I have a word with you?
- What word? - About COVID.
{tense music)
- Hey, guys, can I have a word with Ben in here privately?
- Yeah, sure.
- Thanks.
Shut the door.
- So their estimates
are around 500,000 deaths if nothing is done.
- Have you checked the numbers?
- I've had a quick look. There's nothing obviously wrong.
- Okay.
Get access to all data and check everything.
- [Newsreader] In Italy more people have died,
bringing the total number of deaths there to 21,
with 888 confirmed cases.
- [Newsreader] The virus infects the financial markets too,
as London's FTSE suffers its worst week
since the financial crisis.
- Might be your take on it,
but that is not what we discussed.
I've, I've gotta go.
Okay. Yeah.
- [Lee] Stock market's fallen again this morning,
uh, it's down 200 billion this week.
-I think you should chair COBRA.
- Yeah, agreed, but Carrie and I
are going to Chequers this weekend.
- Monday then? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.
- [Dom] Ben is looking at the numbers.
- Good. - For now we need to focus
on the economic impact.
I'm gonna go through the options with Rishi.
- Excellent. Good.
- I think we should start focus grouping as well.
- [Boris] You're right, yep.
- Get Public First onto it,
and maybe we should think about
drafting in Ben Guerin and Isaac Levido on messaging.
- Ah, the old team.
- If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
- Patrick, good to see you.
- Oh, hello, Prime Minister. - Hey Chris, nice to see you.
Oh, hello, Matt, hey, listen,
I'm gonna chair the meeting on Monday.
- Great.
- Okay, this COVID virus we need to keep an eye on, yes.
- We are, we are. - Okay, thank you.
That's good. Oh just those, check that.
- Okay, okay. - Okay?
- Right, thank you.
- Could you tell us
about the latest developments, Prime Minister?
- Uh, well, yeah, as you can imagine,
the issue of coronavirus
is now the government's top priority.
And I've just come from a meeting
with the Chief Medical Officer
and the Secretary of State for Health, and others.
But as I say, I, you know,
1 think the best thing all of us can do
to prevent the spread of a coronavirus is to wash our hands.
- Good, it was good.
- Actually, I quite like that bit of a tiny smile
at the end there, just to sort of sell it a bit.
- Yeah, yeah, it was great.
- Have a good weekend. - Okay, thanks, Gazza.
Hello.
- Hello.
- I'll take Dylin, ma'am. - Thank you.
(engines droning) (gentle music)
- More wine, Prime Minister?
- Yes, please, I shall certainly have some more, thank you.
Very nice itis, too.
- Thank you, sir. - Excellent, good.
- You've still not said anything to them?
- Yeah. Hasn't been, hasn't been quite the right timing.
- Okay, well this is your last chance.
- I know.
- ‘Cause I'm going to tell everyone this weekend,
whether you've told them or not.
- Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
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- Many of you already know,
but for my friends that still don't,
we got engaged at the end of last year,
and we've got a baby hatching early summer.
This is what I'm going to post.
What do you think?
- You know, I bow to your superior knowledge
of social media.
- [Carrie] All right.
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- [Newsreader] Eight more people die in Italy
as the coronavirus continues to spread.
Today churches were closed,
as 240 new cases were reported
in the northern regions of Lombardy and Veneto.
- He- hello, Lara, it's Dad here.
I, I wanted to let you know a piece of news
before you read it in the papers,
which is that, uh, we, uh are having a baby.
Uh, Carrie is having a baby,
another Johnson is on his or her way.
Um, so, uh, I hope to see you soon.
Okay, lots of, lots of love.
Yeah, um, it's Dad, of course. Bye, bye.
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