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Politics Unpacked

PMQs Unpacked 16-12-2020

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Times Columnist Alice Thomson and Red Box regular John Kampfner pick over the day's news;  Matt Chorley and Red Box's Patrick Maguire pause the exchanges between Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer to explain what's happening at Prime Minister's Questions

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0:00.0

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

0:06.8

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0:10.7

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0:17.0

That includes transforming networks across the country to connect renewable energy, households and businesses to a greener grid.

0:25.7

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0:30.9

and building the world's largest offshore wind farm at Dogger Bank off the coast of Yorkshire.

0:36.0

When complete, Dogger Bank will be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy a major step towards the UK

0:46.2

achieving net zero carbon emissions and all this is creating thousands of

0:52.0

sustainable green jobs in communities right across the UK.

0:57.0

Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.S.C. dot com slash change. Hello, welcome to the Red Box Podcast, I'm Matt Surely, it's Wednesday, so you've got PMQs unpacked.

1:19.0

We don't actually know if it's the last PMQs of the year because Jacob Rees Mog still hasn't said

1:24.5

when MPs are going to break for Christmas if they'll break at all of course because

1:27.8

they might have to sit over Christmas and New Year in order to vote on a Brexit

1:32.4

deal. Anyway, never mind that PMQ's unpacked is coming up this

1:36.2

week with Patrick McGuire because Tim Shipman is off doing his Christmas shopping or something.

1:40.3

But first it's Wednesday so our columnist panel is of course

1:43.4

Camp Alice is John Campner and Alice Thompson. The Let's talk about algorithms. results in the summer are going to be marked by algorithms and they abandoned that.

2:12.8

And the government planned an algorithm to decide where new houses should go and they've abandoned

2:20.1

that as well.

2:21.8

I think even Theresa May made this joke several weeks ago saying you'd

2:24.9

have thought by now the government might have given up on algorithms. Alice I don't know

2:30.0

does this make us ludites to say we don't want to use algorithms or is this just the reality that you can't

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