I beg your garden? The Environment Minister on net zero and talking to plants

Chopper's Politics

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🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Rebecca Pow, The Environment Minister, joins Christopher "Chopper" Hope to explain why on earth she's asking us to befriend an insect, explains how she's working on cleaning up our rivers (and not just for wild swimming) and reveals why she takes a leaf out of Prince Charles' book and talks to her plants.

Also on the podcast, head of the English Football League, Rick Parry, on the role the beautiful game can play in the government's levelling up agenda.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Chopper's Politics.
0:04.0	Do you talk to your plants?
0:06.0	Sometimes?
0:07.0	Well, I actually do.
0:09.0	The first thing I usually do when I get in is water to my plant.
0:12.0	What do you say to them is water to my plant.
0:12.5	Check how they are.
0:14.5	They probably be absolutely fine because they're there with my two cats.
0:18.9	Hello and welcome to Chopper's Politics.
0:21.9	I'm Christopher Hope, the Associate Editor for Politics at
0:25.6	the Daily Telegraph and this week listeners I'm taking a break. The sun is out and
0:30.8	my deck shoes are on. But before I left turning off towers last week, I planted
0:35.9	the seed of this brilliant podcast for you listeners. And by now it's grown with the help of
0:40.4	Louisa Wells or brilliant producer into a strapping oak tree of news,
0:45.0	I know you'll love.
0:46.6	Later in the show, we'll hear from Rick Perry,
0:48.4	the chairman of the English Football League,
0:50.3	or EFL, to talk about how the beautiful game can kick start Michael Goeb's levelling up.
0:56.5	But first, last week I made the short journey in Westminster to the Defra Building to speak
1:02.0	to the Minister for the Environment, Rebecca Pough, the Gardening Minister to you and me.
1:07.0	And once we'd taken root in her Plant Field Office, okay that's the last gag about gardening in this podcast. I started by asking
1:15.9	Ms. Powe what more you and me can do to help the government reach its net zero target by 2050?
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