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Politics Unpacked

One Year of Boris

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In an extra special podcast, Matt Chorley looks back over Boris Johnson's first year in office by assessing the success of promises made in his first ever speech and talking to historian Anthony Seldon, biographer Sonia Purnell and friend and former aide Guto Harri.

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0:00.0

May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:08.0

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the brain again.

0:15.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

0:20.0

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

0:29.2

accelerating the transition to net zero. SSE is investing over 9 million pounds a day in

0:36.7

cleaner, more secure homegrown energy. That includes transforming networks

0:41.8

across the country to connect renewable energy,

0:44.6

households and businesses to a greener grid.

0:48.0

Pioneering low-carbon flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage and building the world's largest

0:54.9

offshore wind farm at Dogger Bank off the coast of Yorkshire. When complete

0:59.6

Dogger Bank will be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy,

1:06.5

a major step towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions.

1:12.1

And all this is creating thousands of sustainable green jobs in communities

1:17.0

right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com slash change.

1:25.0

Hello and I'm on the Red Box Podcast. I'm Matt Chorley, a special edition of the

1:29.2

podcast and we've been looking back at what happened exactly 12 months ago.

1:34.7

This is Times Radio, I'm Matt Chorley and this is the story of the past 12 months,

1:40.0

starting with what happened a year ago today.

1:42.7

And therefore I give notice that Boris Johnson is elected

1:47.1

as the leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party. No incoming leader has ever faced such a daunting set of circumstances it said.

2:03.0

Never mind the backstop.

2:05.0

The buck stops here.

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