Hereditary Peers
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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As the Lords debate a bill over whether to scrap Hereditary Peers by-elections, Matt Chorley finds out how the Hereditary Peer by-election system works and speaks to the Lord behind the bill.
PLUS: Melanie Reid and James Forsyth discuss the day's headlines
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Adam Vaughn, the Times' Environment Editor. |
| 0:02.8 | At this October's Earth Summit, the Times and Sunday Times are bringing together |
| 0:06.2 | some of the UK's top people in sustainability from science to business and government. |
| 0:10.9 | The aim is to make more businesses more green and more profitable. |
| 0:15.2 | How do we revolutionise supply chains? How do we get green investment? |
| 0:19.4 | What opportunities are there when businesses work in an environmentally friendly way? |
| 0:24.0 | Find out by registering at TimesEarthSummit.com. |
| 0:30.4 | This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, |
| 0:37.1 | a leading clean energy champion accelerating the transition to net zero. |
| 0:43.1 | SSE is investing over £9 million a day in cleaner, more secure, homegrown energy. |
| 0:50.0 | That includes transforming networks across the country to connect renewable energy, |
| 0:54.7 | households and businesses to a greener grid, pioneering low-carbon, |
| 0:59.5 | flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage, |
| 1:03.2 | and building the world's largest offshore wind farm, a doggar bank off the coast of Yorkshire. |
| 1:08.9 | When complete, doggar bank will be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year |
| 1:14.1 | with clean, renewable energy, a major step towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. |
| 1:21.9 | And all this is creating thousands of sustainable green jobs in communities right across the UK. |
| 1:29.5 | Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com slash change. |
| 1:59.6 | So I don't think there's any focus on that at the moment. |
| 2:05.0 | So within minutes, Kirsta started the reshuffle designed to revitalise |
| 2:08.4 | his leadership and inject some youthful vigor by appointing a vet Cooper, |
| 2:12.4 | who's been an MP since 1997, a shadow home secretary. |
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