The Edition: The green games

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🗓️ 15 April 2021

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Summary

What’s behind Boris’s plan for a green bonanza? (01:10) Can the West challenge China in the tech arms race? (14:50) Can the British handle grief? (24:05)

With Katy Balls, The Spectator’s deputy political editor; Rachel Wolf, a partner at Public First at co-author of the 2019 Conservative manifesto; author and journalist Ian Williams; politician and author Bruno Maçães; writer Fiona Mountford; and comedian and podcaster Cariad Lloyd.

Presented by Lara Prendergast.

Produced by Arsalan Mohammad.

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0:39.2	This week, we look at why Boris Johnson is getting so excited about the COP26 summit in Glasgow.
0:48.5	Plus, China's encroachment into British infrastructure continues a pace, but at what cost to our national security?
0:59.8	And finally, we discuss why the British are so bad at dealing with grief.
1:29.2	First up, Boris has high hopes for his November COP 26 summit. He sees it as a chance for Britain to present itself as a green superpower, which can lead the way on environmental issues. But what price will British voters accept for an ambitious agenda of costly green initiatives?
1:35.0	Katie Balls has written our cover story this week and she joins me now, alongside Rachel Wolfe,
1:41.3	former policy advisor to Boris Johnson and co-author of the Conservative Party's election manifesto in 2019.
1:46.6	Katie, in your piece of you outline what you refer to as an eco-jamboree.
1:52.5	How are the plans shaping up? I think on the surface, a 12-day negotiation, you know, over 100 nations coming together and 12 days are quite techy talks about the climate change action plan.
1:59.0	It doesn't really scream crowd- pleaser. But I think ultimately,
2:02.7	COP26 has seen as an increasing importance to this government because it sets out how Boris Johnson
2:07.7	A wants to do his foreign policy. We saw in the Integrated Review how attacking climate change and
2:13.6	protecting biodiversity is the key, the number one international aim of foreign policy.
2:19.6	And secondly, also his domestic agenda.
2:22.6	I think there are many, including the Prime Minister and those around him, who think that after
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