Assisted dying and Chagos row overshadow Starmer’s carbon capture pledge
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 4 October 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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What Westminster seems more interested in talking about is the news that assisted dying is back on the agenda and the fallout of the deal to give the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Is there a degree of inevitability about these two stories resurfacing?
Oscar Edmondson speaks to Isabel Hardman and James Heale.
Produced by Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:22.0 | . . . . . Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots, The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:26.8 | I'm Oskredinson and I'm joined today by Isabel Hardman and James Heel. |
| 0:31.8 | So what Kirstammer wants to be talking about this morning is the |
| 0:34.8 | 22 billion pounds worth of funding that he's announced into carbon capture. |
| 0:39.6 | Let's hear a clip of his speech. And the timing is right. |
| 0:44.4 | This is a technology that is now a ride, |
| 0:47.3 | but is ready with this investment to scale. |
| 0:51.8 | But it is just the start. I've always believed that clean energy is a golden |
| 0:57.8 | opportunity for our country. A chance to bring security and hope to working people. |
| 1:04.0 | We like the fires of renewal in those areas that got hit so hard by de-industrialisation. |
| 1:10.0 | Now James, you had the pleasure of listening to this speech in full. |
| 1:14.0 | Can you take us through the pledge because I mean a lot of detractors have been saying it's |
| 1:18.0 | quite similar to a scheme that the Tories were proposing just a year ago? |
| 1:22.0 | I mean yes it is and much of the funding is |
| 1:23.5 | exactly the same and I was listening to him when he said the press Q&A and he said |
| 1:28.6 | well we've actually got on with it we've had this funding from funding from Blackstone and Amazon etc and obviously the point being is that well yes |
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