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that brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster.

I'm Phil Sim, a journalist

based at the Scottish Parliament and this is another one of our manifesto deep dive episodes.

So joining me today to discuss climate policies are Georgia Roberts at Westminster. Hello. And

Lindsay Buse here at Holyrood. Hi. So hopefully people have heard some of our other episodes along this format, but basically we've

divvied up the manifestos, we've read them so you don't have to, and we're doing individual

episodes on all of the different topics which might, you know, influence how people vote.

So today we are talking about climate.

And I guess I could kick us off.

I have drawn Labour and the Tories for this exercise.

The two longest manifestos, you're welcome.

So I think Labour is an interesting place to start actually because they, one of the most eye-catching

policies, maybe the whole election, has been this GB energy business which other parties

have tried to pick apart in which Labour have been promoting

about having a clean energy company headquartered in Scotland. And there's been some confusion

possibly about what exactly this thing is going to be, partly driven, I must say by Keir Starrmer,

insisting on Radio Scotland at one point that is not actually

an energy company, but an investment company. So basically, what it is, is it would co-invest

in new technologies, big renewable projects, according to the manifesto. It does that alongside

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