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Politics Unpacked

Disunited Kingdom: Education Special

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley dives into the news across the four corners of the UK and this week's focus is on education. 


PLUS John Stevens and Emma Woolf join Matt to go through the day's news. 



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0:00.0

This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy

0:06.0

champion, accelerating the transition to net zero. SSE is investing over £9 million a day

0:14.3

in cleaner, more secure, homegrown energy. That includes transforming networks across the country

0:20.4

to connect renewable energy, households and businesses to a greener grid, pioneering low carbon

0:27.1

flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage and building the world's largest

0:32.5

offshore wind farm, a doggar bank off the coast of Yorkshire. When complete, doggar bank will

0:38.3

be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy, a major step

0:45.2

towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of sustainable

0:52.8

green jobs in communities right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com

1:01.6

slash change.

1:23.8

email me now, especially if you're outside the UK, so we're always looking for international

1:28.0

quizzes, but it's fine if you're inside the UK to email me matt.july at times dot radio.

1:33.2

Coming up on today's episode, no PMQ still because MPs are away, so instead is when so we've got

1:38.9

disunited kingdom, political news in the four corners of the UK, with a special focus this week

1:43.8

on education because of exams and all of that. So we'll find out what is going on in England,

1:49.6

Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. But first, our columnist panel, no Anna Stompson,

1:54.3

this week still away with the hell's angel's friends. So we've got Robert Crampton and Emma Wolf.

2:05.3

I think, yeah, summertime is classic times for reshuffle stories, especially because you've got

2:11.2

you know, at least a few weeks or possibly months until a reshuffle happens. So if then your story

2:17.1

doesn't turn out to be true, well, I hope people have forgotten about it. So what do you mean,

2:20.8

do you mean that not all reshuffle stories are necessarily accurate? Well, I think they're not

2:25.8

necessarily nailed on. They may have been right at the time, but maybe the prime minister's thinking

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