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Politics Unpacked

The New Lib Dem Leader

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Finkelstein - sitting in for Matt Chorley - speaks to former Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable, and gets the results of the leadership contest, live.

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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

accelerating the transition to net zero.

0:10.7

SSE is investing over 9 million pounds a day in cleaner, more secure home-grown energy.

0:17.0

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

0:25.7

Pioneering low-carbon flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage and

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 achieving

0:46.8

net zero carbon emissions.

0:49.8

And all this is creating thousands of sustainable green jobs in communities right across the UK.

0:57.0

Find out more about what SSE are doing at S. dot com slash change.

1:03.0

It's Daniel Finkelstein with the Times Red Box Politics

1:05.8

Podcast.

1:06.8

I've been talking to Vince Cable about the election of a new liberal Democrat leader.

1:18.7

Hello it's Daniel Vinklestein sitting in for Matt Chorley on a big day in the political year. It's the Liberal Democrat leadership announcements.

1:21.6

All leadership election

1:23.0

announcements are consequential even though it's fair to say that the

1:27.4

liberal Democrats haven't quite regained their mojo that's a polite way of

1:30.7

putting it since the 2010 election and Joe Swinson was the

1:34.4

latest leader to resign after the general election last year when the

1:38.6

Liberal Democrats won 11 seats. In around 20 minutes we'll find out whether Coalition Minister Ed Davy or the

1:46.0

challenger Leila Moran who thinks the party has to move away from its past has won

1:51.4

the contest but now I'm joined by the party's former leader and by the

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