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Politics Unpacked

Why Doesn't Britain Work?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

From Excel spreadsheets to the Brexit negotiations, former Cabinet Office Minister under David Cameron, Lord (Francis) Maude, speaks to Matt Chorley about the machinery of government - and why it can make their big ideas fail.

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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

accelerating the transition to net zero.

0:10.7

SSE is investing over 9 million pounds a day in cleaner, more secure home-grown energy.

0:17.0

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

0:25.7

Pioneering low-carbon flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage and

0:30.9

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

0:36.0

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, welcome to Redbox Podcast and The Times, I'm Matt Chorley,

1:06.1

bringing you the best of my Times radio show.

1:08.2

Monday to Thursday, 10 till 1.

1:11.8

We've been inundated with American listeners which is excellent news. We've

1:15.3

still got a few to go until we've found a listener in every US state for our

1:19.2

election results program on Times radio. So if you are in America and you want to come on as one of our

1:26.4

special correspondence trying to find 50 listeners from 50 states then get in touch

1:30.4

with me email me Matt dot surely at Times dot radio and we'll hope to get you on the show on election

1:36.8

night now there's obviously loads of rolling news around about coronavirus

1:40.4

restrictions and we're all gonna be trapped indoors again and it's all a bit

1:44.3

grim and miserable right across the country and the weather's turned and all that.

1:48.4

So rather than focusing on the detail, latest news and all of that sort of thing, what we thought we'd do is take a step back and try to work out.

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