COVID-19: Can Tory optimism survive a second wave? | 26 August 2020

With coronavirus refusing to be beaten, what are the effects on society, the economy and the political system? Has the Government lifted lockdown too fast? Is a second wave inevitable and if so, can we afford it?<br /><br />On the Sky News Daily podcast our deputy political editor Sam Coates is joined by Oksana Pyzik a senior teaching fellow at UCL school of pharmacy; Torsten Bell from the Resolution Foundation, a think-tank focused on improving living standards for those on low to middle incomes and former health secretary Lord Andrew Lansley.<br /><br />Daily podcast team:<br />Podcast producer - Annie Joyce<br />Podcast producer - Nicola Eyers<br />Politics producer - Mollie Malone<br />Assistant producer - Sabah Choudhry<br />Interviews producer - Oli Foster<br />Interviews producer - Tatiana Alderson<br />Interviews producer - Megan Coutts<br />Archive - Simon Windsor<br />Music - Steven Wheeler