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Politics Unpacked

Why Scunthorpe turned blue

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Times columnist Robert Crampton and Red Box reporter Esther Webber pick over the days news; then Matt Chorley speaks to pollster James Johnson who has been talking to his focus group in Scunthorpe on their views on Boris Johnson, Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic.

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0:00.0

Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you

0:08.3

slide by on track to your

0:15.0

there.

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this is not a care in the world as you simply lean back.

0:17.0

And before you know it, you're there.

0:20.0

This is how travels should feel,

0:22.0

and on our trains it does a vanti west coast feel good travel

0:32.0

This episode of red box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy champion, accelerating the transition to net zero.

0:42.0

SSE is investing over 9 million pounds a day in cleaner, more secure

0:48.4

home-grown energy. That includes transforming networks across the country to connect renewable energy,

0:54.7

households and businesses to a greener grid.

0:58.0

Pioneering low-carbon flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage and building the world's largest offshore wind farm

1:06.0

at Dogger Bank off the coast of Yorkshire.

1:09.2

When complete, Dogger Bank will be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy,

1:16.5

a major step towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions.

1:21.9

And all this is creating thousands of sustainable green jobs in communities

1:27.1

right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com slash change.

1:37.0

Hello, welcome to the Web Box podcast, I'm Matt Jolly being in the best of my Times Radio show,

1:43.9

Monday to Thursday, 10 till 1, the last episode of the week, and we have reconvened the Times Radio Focus

1:50.9

Group with James Johnson and Keck, CNC. That is coming up. We head to the

1:54.8

former Red Wall seat of Scunthorpe to speak to some swing voters there. They backed the

1:58.6

Tories last time. Do they still back Boris Johnson? What do they make of Ker stymah that is coming up next but

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