The end of the green consensus?
Political Fix
Financial Times
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🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Rishi Sunak has signalled he plans to soften his eco policies to avoid heaping extra “hassle” and expense on the British public. The FT’s Lucy Fisher is joined by columnist Robert Shrimsley and deputy political editor Jim Pickard to examine the government’s shifting approach to net zero. They also dissect Nigel Farage’s battle with Coutts bank, while public policy editor Peter Foster discusses the graduates suing UK universities for damages over Covid disruption.
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| 0:34.1 | All the charges that Nigel Farage levels about society at the moment about the nature of culture |
| 0:39.1 | and the way that people are excluding the majority opinion get validated by events like this. |
| 0:43.6 | And so it's a double win for him. |
| 0:45.5 | Welcome to Political Fix, your essential insider guide to Westminster from the financial times |
| 0:54.4 | with me Lucy Fisher. You heard they're the FT's Robert Trimsley talking about the saga of Nigel |
| 1:00.1 | Farage and Coote's Bank, more from him later. Coming up we'll be asking why are the Tories |
| 1:06.0 | watering down green policies and just how far are they prepared to go? Plus we'll examine the |
| 1:11.8 | latest troubling golfing Britain's universities. With me our FT columnist Robert Trimsley, |
| 1:16.6 | hi Robert. Hey Lucy. And the FT's deputy political editor Jim Picard. Hi Jim. Hi. |
| 1:25.4 | So before we kick off our discussion what else scored your attention this week Robert? |
| 1:29.9 | Well I was quite interested by the fact that Labour has taken quite a few big steps backwards |
| 1:34.4 | on its trans rights policy from being the full trans rights agenda that essentially one |
| 1:38.8 | asked for by Stonewall and trans campaigners and the one that got Nicola Sturgeon to such trouble |
| 1:43.6 | in Scotland. Labour has now rode back a lot on this to a position that's actually not that different |
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