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Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing

If we vaccinate the top four priority groups by February, how much will things change? Plus, we investigate some fishy Brexit statistics

The vaccine rollout continues: how long will it take before we see the benefits, and what benefits will we see? Figures suggest the UK鈥檚 economy performed worse than almost anywhere else in the world during the pandemic. But are the numbers misleading us? Will UK fishing quotas increase two thirds in the wake of Brexit? We trawl through the data. Plus, alarming claims have been circulating about the number of suicides during lockdown. We look at the facts.
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  • Wed 20 Jan 2021 09:00
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