Bill Esterson MP: Labour’s Roadmap to Electrification | The Stop Burning Stuff Podcast

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🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week Quentin welcomes Labour’s Shadow Minister for Transport, Bill Esterson MP. In this incredibly insightful interview, they discuss the transition to electric vehicles and Labour’s plans on this front.

As an EV driver and politician, Bill recognises the many benefits of embracing electrification for individual convenience, air quality and economic growth. But he also highlights the current challenges to achieving this, much of which he feels stems from the government’s mixed messaging and the rise in misinformation and scepticism from certain media outlets.

Bill also shares an overview of Labour's plans to accelerate the transition, including details of their "5 missions" framework, aimed at achieving self-sufficiency in renewable energy, fostering economic growth, and creating opportunities for people.

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0:00.0	Hello I'm Robert the Wellen and welcome to a special podcast takeover episode from my good friend
0:06.1	Quentin Wilson. Now as some of you may know Quentin and I have launched the Stop Burning Stuff Initiative
0:12.5	to address the growing issue of misinformation on EVs and clean energy.
0:17.4	To support the campaign's mission, we're bringing you a Stop Burning Stuff podcast series, dedicated to fact sharing and
0:25.0	myth busting. Now we hope you enjoy it and don't forget if you'd like to join
0:29.7	us and help fight the FUD all the links to sign up are below. Like Everything Electric?
0:35.4	Then you'll love our fun-packed Everything Electric expos around the world.
0:39.3	Next up, we're in London and Harrogate. Remember, Energy and Transport professionals go free on the first day.
0:46.0	Welcome to another SBS Stop Burning Stuff podcast and I'm Quentin Wilson and I'm really delighted to have with me today our guest
0:56.5	Bill Asterton MP. He is the member of Parliament for Sefton Central and currently Shadow Minister for Roads.
1:06.0	Bill has held various portfolios, Shadow Minister for International Trade, Shadow Minister for Business
1:12.1	Industry, and previously Shadow Minister for Small Businesses,
1:18.0	and he did a math and politics degree in the University of Leeds. And in the interests of transparency, I have to say that
1:24.8	Bill and I already know each other, I go to the All Party Parliamentary Group on EVs and we've
1:31.9	exchanged late night texts on potholes. But what you are and I've
1:39.4	known many transformative in my time, Bill. You seem genuinely interested in cars, roads and
1:48.1	industry and you see it as a challenge that you relish, I think it's fair to say.
1:55.0	So look, you're an EV driver.
1:57.0	Let's start about how important EVs are to industry and to the UK.
2:04.4	Yeah, well, Quentin, thank you very much for your
2:09.4	introduction and as you say I am a car driver and I responded to a debate in Westminster Hall yesterday
2:19.6	about young drivers in the preparation of which I realized that tomorrow marks the
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