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The Climate Crisis: An Interchat with Ben Plowden

What has to change inside government before anything changes on the street?

In today's Interchat with 𝗕𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗱𝗲𝗻, 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁, we discuss the machinery of government, why combined authorities should never be treated as a single category and the local transport authorities now spending 70% of their budgets on social care.

We also discuss my own despair about the climate crisis - and Ben's rather more useful answer to it.

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Allan Cook on the Rail and Urban Transport Review

What should the new Government do about transport?

Big question: so the Labour party asked an independent group of experts to come up with the answer.

Allan Cook, former Chair of HS2, joins me to talk about their recommendations and why it’s so crucial for the Government to take them forward

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Budget Special: Sir Michael Holden

I got together with Sir Michael Holden (former Chief Executive of Directly Operated Railways, the Government’s own train company) to discuss this landmark first budget by a Labour chancellor for 14 years.

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