#LondonCalling: Rishi Sunak reawakens the North Sea oil fields. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
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🗓️ 2 August 2023
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#LondonCalling: Rishi Sunak reawakens the North Sea oil fields. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/peter-schrank-times-cartoon-august-1-2023-xrjwbhnrb
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| 0:30.2 | I'm John Batsu with my friend and colleague Joseph Sternberg, editorial board of the Wall |
| 0:39.2 | Street Journal. He writes the political economics column. He's in London, and we're going |
| 0:43.7 | to London now, for a surprising headline. This is the London Times. Rishi Sunack unveils |
| 0:50.0 | new norse oil drilling and carbon capture scheme as it happened. At least a hundred |
| 0:54.8 | new oil and sea gas licenses will be issued as PM says banning everything is not the |
| 0:59.8 | answer to climate change. Joe, what? What's happened to Net Zero? Where did it go? Is this |
| 1:06.8 | the same story in the UK that left the Brexit, that left the European Union as it is in |
| 1:12.8 | Germany, that stayed in the European Union, the cost of suddenly come home and they're |
| 1:18.1 | frightened? |
| 1:19.1 | Yeah, common sense is breaking out all over all of a sudden in the UK now. I mean, the |
| 1:23.8 | proximate cause for this is actually something that you and I discussed recently, John, |
| 1:28.5 | which was the surprising bi-election result in Boris Johnson's old parliamentary seat in |
| 1:35.2 | London. This happened a couple of weeks ago, and the story there was that the conservative |
| 1:39.7 | party barely held on to the seat when labor had been expected to win big. And the specific |
| 1:46.2 | reason for that was that voters were protesting against the Labor Party mayor of London's |
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