BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants,

and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain.

While today we're mostly in oil and gas we increased the proportion of our

global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other

transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023.

BP.com slash and not all. Hello and welcome to episode 19 of this special election 24 series

575 candidates to go by the end of today's episode it will be 571. Do get in touch if you'd like to come on the

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as well as using the email address, just then they're loving this and what an antidote it is to

some of the more stressful election coverage that can be quite anxiety-inducing.

So this morning's Battle Bus has a very special first stop.

We're going to Eerith and Thamesmead.

I can't pretend that I pronounce that correctly first time with

Labour's candidate Abana Apong, Assari. Now I'm not sure, well I'm not going to, I always do this, I always say I don't want to mention stuff that we could talk about in the interview

and risk mentioning it but she tells me something about a constituency not that I

can't believe but that well I didn't know and made me think about this area

differently and made me want to visit and this is you know what I've had so many

really optimistic people on this podcast, and I think it really comes through, you can really sense it, and Abbana is one of those people, and clearly loves politics and loves life. So what better place to start than in Ereth and Thamesmead

with Abbana Apong, Asare the Labour candidate for Erith and Thamesmead, which is...

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