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Politics Unpacked

"It's Hard Being Green"

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Is the Green Party having a resurgence? Matt Chorley speaks to pollster Chris Curtis and Times Radio Political Correspondent Charlotte Ivers about how the Greens are doing across the country and Green co-leader Jonathan Bartley explains how the party can capitalise on the gains made in the local elections. 


PLUS


Times Columnists India Knight and James Marriott discuss the fallout from Dominic Cummings' mammoth evidence session to the Science and Technology Select Committee.



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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Manvine Rana, the host of the Stories of Our Times podcast.

0:07.7

Did you know that if you're a time subscriber, you can now access bonus episodes every week

0:13.3

via Apple Podcasts, which bring you an exclusive peek behind the scenes.

0:18.5

So if you have an iPhone, head to apple.co, forward slash Stories of Our Times, to connect

0:24.6

your time subscription.

0:30.5

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

0:38.4

champion, accelerating the transition to net zero. SSE is investing over nine million pounds

0:46.0

a day in cleaner, more secure, homegrown energy. That includes transforming networks across

0:52.1

the country to connect renewable energy, households and businesses to a greener grid, pioneering

0:58.7

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

1:04.3

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

1:10.3

bank will be capable of powering over six million homes a year with clean, renewable energy,

1:16.5

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.

1:29.6

Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com slash change.

1:48.4

Hello, this is the Red Box podcast from the Times. I'm Matt Chewley and what a special

1:53.7

treat we've got for you today. What we thought we'd do on the podcast is we run all of Dominic

1:59.7

Cummings evidence to you. Nobody wants that. We will discuss it though with our comments panel

2:05.6

in just a moment. Our big thing today, though, nothing to do with Dominic Cummings, which he will

2:09.8

hate. We thought we'd take a look at the green part of the quietly. They're doing quite well.

2:13.5

What's behind all of that? It turns out people in the Labour Party are quite worried about that too.

2:17.6

That's coming up and our big thing. But first, let's kick off Matt Hancock giving his first

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