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Politics Unpacked

Happy Birthday House of Commons

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On the 70th anniversary of the House of Commons' post-war reconstruction, Matt Chorley speaks to Speaker Lindsay Hoyle, and SNP MP Kirsten Oswald makes the case for a chamber revamp in the style of European semi-circular parliaments.

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0:00.0

Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.

0:11.0

So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

0:16.4

Trains now on Uber T's and C's apply check the Uber app.

0:22.0

This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy champion,

0:29.2

accelerating the transition to net zero. SSE is investing over 9 million pounds a day in

0:36.7

cleaner, more secure homegrown energy. That includes transforming networks

0:41.8

across the country to connect renewable energy,

0:44.6

households and businesses to a greener grid.

0:48.0

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

0:54.9

offshore wind farm at Dogger Bank off the coast of Yorkshire. When complete

0:59.6

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

1:06.5

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

1:12.1

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

1:17.0

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

1:25.0

Hello, welcome to the Red Box podcast.

1:27.0

I'm Matt Choddie bringing you the best of my Times Radio show, Monday to Thursday 10 till 1.

1:32.0

You can listen to the whole thing on the Times Radio

1:34.1

app if that's the sort of thing that you like. Thank you to loads of you've been

1:38.4

posting nice comments on iTunes where you've been or the Apple Podcast, whatever it's called, where you get your podcast on.

1:45.2

Lots of you've been very nice saying you've recently discovered us.

1:48.0

You've discovered us on the podcast or on the 70 years ago today the Commons Chamber was reopened after it was destroyed in the bombing in the Blitz in 1941.

2:10.3

So to mark that I've been speaking to the common speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle

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