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Politics Unpacked

How do you solve a problem like Nicola?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Times Columnists David Aaronovitch and Sebastian Payne pick over the day's news; then Matt Chorley is joined by Scottish Conservative Party Leader Douglas Ross 

to discuss Coronavirus, independence and how to save the union



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0:00.0

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

0:06.8

accelerating the transition to net zero.

0:10.7

SSE is investing over 9 million pounds a day in cleaner, more secure home-grown energy.

0:17.0

That includes transforming networks across the country to connect renewable energy, households and businesses to a greener grid.

0:25.7

Pioneering low-carbon flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage and

0:30.9

and building the world's largest offshore wind farm at Dogger Bank off the coast of Yorkshire.

0:36.0

When complete, Dogger Bank will be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy a major step towards the UK

0:46.2

achieving net zero carbon emissions and all this is creating thousands of

0:52.0

sustainable green jobs in communities right across the UK.

0:57.0

Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.S.C. dot com slash change. Hello, welcome to the Red Box Podcast, I'm Matt Chorley bringing the best of my time to

1:14.8

video show, Monday, Thursday, 10 to 1.

1:17.2

How did you solve a problem like Nicola?

1:19.8

That's the question that we're asking today.

1:22.0

Nicholas Sturgeon's surging in the polls so

1:23.8

support for Scottish independence. I speak to the man who tried to stop the whole

1:27.6

thing. Douglas Ross the conservative Scottish leader about how on earth he plans to try and reverse the tide of

1:35.8

independence in Scotland and how he copes with his boss in Westminster being

1:40.8

at Boris Johnson. That's coming up in just a sec, but first is

1:43.6

Tuesday so it should be Finkelovich but David Ronovich has lost his Finkel.

1:47.0

Danny is not available for the lecture this week so he's been joined by

1:51.0

Sebastian Payne from the FT. So here we are, this is David Wonovitch and Sebastian Payne. So are we all excited about herdling into Tier 3 just in time for Christmas David?

2:09.0

I... The problem is I actually just

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