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Politics Unpacked

What's the Big Idea?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Times Columnists Rachel Sylvester and Libby Purves pick over the day's news; then Matt Chorley is joined by former Cabinet Secretary Gus O'Donnell to talk about the £25,000 prize open for the public's policy ideas, then Matt Kilcoyne from the Adam Smith Institute and Polly Mackenzie rate some listener suggestions.

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0:00.0

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

0:06.8

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0:10.7

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That includes transforming networks across the country to connect renewable energy, households and businesses to a greener grid.

0:25.7

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0:30.9

and building the world's largest offshore wind farm at Dogger Bank off the coast of Yorkshire.

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

0:46.2

achieving net zero carbon emissions and all this is creating thousands of

0:52.0

sustainable green jobs in communities right across the UK.

0:57.0

Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.S.C. dot com slash change.

1:02.8

Hello, this is a webbox podcast. I'm Matt Surely, bringing you the best of my times

1:11.9

radio show, Monday the Thursday, 10 till

1:13.7

1. It's a new week and as ever we try to focus on the positive. So on today's show we are

1:20.4

discussing your big ideas. A competition has been launched.

1:24.0

25,000 pounds up for grabs for big policy ideas that could make their country better.

1:29.3

So I asked you last week to send them in. We had so money and we whittle them down and we've got some of the best

1:35.9

coming up and some policy experts pick over them to say whether or not they would work.

1:41.7

But first it's our columnist panel it's Monday so it must be

1:44.7

liberatory that's Libby Purvis and Rachel Sylvester. I'm going to do. The Now that we had a new word for the lexicon introduced over the weekend and the Sunday times,

2:10.6

Hank Kocyan. It's apparently the words used by Boris Johnson of all people to describe a target which is a little bit unrealistic or certainly stretching I think is how Matt Hancock would describe it.

2:24.3

You know it started with you know testing a hundred thousand people a day that then

2:30.8

become I think five hundred000 people a day.

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