Welcome to the Green Alliance podcast. We are the charity and think tank dedicated to achieving ambitious leadership for the environment.

I'm Holly Brasier-Tope, head of politics at Green Alliance. It's officially been 100 days since the new Labour government took office, following over a decade of conservative leadership.

In today's episode, we'll look back at some key moments from these first months

and consider how the groundwork laid so far could shape what comes next.

We'll be hearing from some Green Alliance experts,

as well as a couple of Labour MPs that are passionate about climate and nature

to gain an insider view from Westminster on how they feel things are progressing.

Thank you. gain an insider view from Westminster on how they feel things are progressing. I'm here with Chris Venables, Director of Politics at Green Alliance, to talk about the first

hundred days. How do you think it's gone?

Good question. I've been thinking a lot about that over the last week or two.

I think if you're Keir Stimer or you're

a senior staffer in this government, probably you think it hasn't gone that well. There was a poll

this week from more in common that put this Labour government at one point ahead. That's a pretty

significant and serious drop from the 4th of July and that election day.

So, yeah, probably not looking good.

Some great stuff has happened too, but a big picture, I think I'd be a bit disappointed and a bit worried if I was them.

I think not good.

It's a fair summary.

You know, I think lots of people felt very positive at the very beginning, A new government that put loads of shadow ministers

into ministerial roles and there was expertise that was transitioning into government and people

were really excited about what that meant. But actually what we've seen in the first three months

is a divided number 10 that's obviously culminated this week in the departure of Sue Gray and a new chief of staff within the first hundred days, which is fairly unprecedented.

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