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Hello and welcome to a special episode of Spectator Radio.

I'm Kate Andrews, the Spectator's economics editor, and in this episode, you're going to hear our live discussion on a greener future for the North.

It was held in Westminster last week and kindly sponsored by Drax.

On the panel, I was joined by Claire Hardboard from DRAX, Thomas Pope from the Institute of

Government, Valentin Quineo from the Center for Cities, and Jake Barry MP, who's also chairman

of the Northern Research Group. We hope you enjoy the episode. Good morning. Thank you so much

for coming to Westminster this morning, especially if you've traveled far to join us.

My name is Kate Andrews.

I'm the economics editor at The Spectator.

And this morning, we're going to be discussing

how we secure a greener future for the North.

A panel this morning only made possible

by the support of Drax.

So thank you very much. Energy has been, is the topic at the

moment, for obvious reasons as the world reels from Russia's invasion of Ukraine and what the knock-on

effect that that has had on oil and gas prices around the world. But it was arguably one of the

most important topics

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