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Hello and welcome to a special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.

I'm Tashiferoz and I'm joined by Katie Bulls and Scarlett Maguire,

who is the director at JLL Partners.

Today we're going to be talking about the green agenda in Westminster politics.

It's something that both parties can't seem to agree on at the moment. Katie, why is that?

If you go back to the Bio-Election results last week, the surprise result,

or the one I think that took most people's best surprise, but perhaps not all Coffee House Shots

listeners, was Uxbridge, which the Tories managed to hold on to, by under 500 votes.

So it was pretty close, but it meant that even though you had these historic winds, very much

in a selfie where Labour took it from the Tories, a lot of the post-mortem has been about what

went wrong for Labour in Uxbridge and what went right for the Tories.

And we know that the Tories put down their success to a campaign on U-Lers, which meant they could

unite around a single issue and say Sidiqan has bringing this expensive policy that's

punishing motorists and you had even the Labour candidate saying, you know, that's not the time

for this expansion. And therefore, when you're reading the runes, people have almost jumped from

that to say, well, is that work there? What could be on a national scale in a general election

campaign? And although that was about air pollution, it doesn't take long before you start

talking about net zero in terms of the 2030 ban on new diesel and petrol. And what I think

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