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Politics Unpacked

Happy Birthday Rishi

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Luke Jones sits in for Matt Chorley. On Rishi Sunak's first anniversary as Chancellor Luke is joined by IPSOS Mori's Head of Politics Kieran Pedley, George Osborne's former Chief of Staff Rupert Harrison and former economic advisor to John McDonnell James Meadway to discuss why the Chancellor remains so popular, and what challenges he faces in the coming year. 


Plus


Columnists Rachel Sylvester and Libby Purves pick over the day's news.



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0:00.0

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

0:46.6

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

0:52.8

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

0:59.4

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

1:04.8

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

1:10.8

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

1:17.6

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

1:24.4

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

1:32.3

at SSE.com slash change. Hello, I'm Luke Jones sitting in for Matt

1:41.6

Chawley. He's taken the week off to finally edit down his bonkbuster explosive tell-all diaries.

1:48.0

This is the Red Box Politics podcast bringing you the best of Matt's Times Radio show

1:51.9

today with special guest host me. We are wishing Rishi Sunak a happy Chancellor birthday

1:57.9

today after one whole year in office and asking how can he stay on top of the polls when there are

2:03.8

so many tough decisions ahead. But first we will pick the brains of our columnist Rachel Sylvester

2:09.8

and Libby Purvis. I'm going to talk Easter holidays first of all. Does a stay-cation, self-catering

2:24.5

stay-cation do it for you Libby? Oh, I don't know it might do. I'm a bit bored with all this chat

2:29.0

about an alfresco spring. They get a phrase like data, data, not dates, you know, and they work

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