Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home with me, Alan Tolhurst.

This week is the latest in our series of episodes over Parliament's summer recess,

looking at how Labour performed in their first year in office,

in some key policy areas, speaking with experts and those with experience facing the same

problems Kirstama is trying to navigate.

My guest today is Chris Skidmore, the former Conservative MP, who as Minister of State for Energy

and Clean Growth, signed the UK's net zero pledge into law in 2019. He was later asked to chair a

review of the government's net zero strategy, which is published in 2023. But he resigned from

the Commons in January last year

over the introduction of the government's offshore petroleum licensing bill, calling it the

greatest mistake of Rishi Sunak's premiership. And he now chairs the Climate Action Coalition,

launched by former US Secretary of State John Kerry. We spoke about how Labour have got on with

the country's climate commitments and its progress on net zero, what he makes of GV Energy, whatever happened to the promise of £28 billion of green investment, and where the Tory party has gone on these issues.

But I started by asking Chris how we'd assess overall the government's performance after 12 months on green policy.

Out of ten, I would probably be pretty high, to be honest with you.

I think given all the headwinds politically that the Labour governments face,

they've stuck their ground.

Lots of media commentary, sort of say, oh, they're going to U-turn on net zero,

they're going to backtrack.

And actually,

it's not just Ed Miliband's leadership. And obviously, he's been committed to this for the past,

you know, for his life. And obviously signed the Climate Change Act into law in the last Labour government. But it's also been Kirstama, who has sort of maintained that sort of sense

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