The New Statesman

Hello and welcome to the New Statesman podcast. I'm executive producer Chris Stone.

Today we're bringing you a live recording from our

Path to Power Conference which delved inside the Labour Party machine as it gears up

for an election in 2024. In this session hosted by Sarah Darwood, senior associate editor at the

New Statesman, we look at Labour's mission for the UK to become a clean energy superpower.

This panel was supported by Lloyd's Banking Group.

Right, hello. So I'm Sarah. So now we're going to move on to our first panel of the day and

we're going to be looking at Labour's mission to make Britain a clean energy

superpower. So I've got a great panel to discuss this important topic today.

We were initially meant to be joined by Jeff Smith MP who was a former shadow for clean power and

consumers but unfortunately he has been reshuffled this morning.

So he does send his apologies, he's got a meeting in his new role in his new

capacity so he won't be here in that capacity today.

But we've got a great panel so let me introduce him. We've got Oliver Coppard here who is Mayor of South Yorkshire.

Then we've got Abbe Martin's Alexander who is a

managing director and head of infrastructure for energy and

industrial at Lloyds Banking Group and then David Hickling who is head of

UK Public Affairs at R. W.E.

And so we'll just start with some opening remarks.

So Oliver, if you'd like to go first.

I guess I just want to start with three quick points

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