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www.com.combe.combeauld slash local elections live. Hello, welcome to Coffee House Shots. I'm James Heel. I'm joined today by James Johnson of Jail Partners and John McTernan, former political secretary, Sir Tony Blair. And it is Tony Blair that today is making a bit of splash in Westminster. His institute, the TBI, has put out a new policy paper talking about the costs of net zero.

And in his foreword, Sotoni has written some comments which are quite critical, not directly of the government in terms of specific policies, but trying to sort of say that governments around the world need to consider the cost of these eco-polices when they're sort of weighing up the burdens on everyday voters.

I mean, John, what's your take on this?

Because in government, some will be saying that this is unhelpful timing.

This is a couple of days for the local elections.

And we all know Ed Milamand's under a bit of fire as we saw on the Commons yesterday.

Look, Labour are cooked in these elections already, as we were going to discuss later in the podcast.

I think actually if you read, and it's interesting, so far I've talked about a dozen people

this morning about Tony Blair's introduction to his pamphlet.

I think I'm the only one who's actually read it.

And the things that I would draw out from it are one.

Tony says people feel they're being made to pay costs for a transition that they didn't cause.

I think that's an absolutely accurate diagnosis of politics, and it goes to the heart of some

the energy exploited by the right in politics.

But that's actually an issue that the government have grappled, taken head on.

Ed Miller-Band's signature policy is the creation of Great British Energy.

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