Heather Stewart
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438 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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So I think it helped that at least initially he was quite close to Starmer.
Um I think he had a very, very clear sense of the brief, 'cause as you say, not only had he done the job before, but he'd also spent quite a lot of time in between thinking about it and talking about it and
Having ideas.
And so he came in with this really clear sense of kind of mission.
And obviously Kirst Armer's government set itself a series of missions in inverted commas.
I mean, I don't really know what happened to them, to be honest.
A lot of them sort of slid away and defined out of existence.
But actually the the sort of green mission, the mission to try and achieve net zero while creating plenty of jobs.
that was very clear.
I mean it's critics I think would say, you know, that he was sort of too messianic or too you know, too zealous about it.
But it didn't But he got the job done.
Like he
Yeah, so solar rollout is happening very quickly, for example, loads of new wind power being given permission.
building rules being changed so that all new houses have solar pans, all this kind of stuff of just, you know, what all the levers, let's pull all the levers, let's have a really clear idea of what we want to do.
And and it seemed to stand out a bit in a government that, as you say, didn't really seem to have that much of a project.
So yeah, I think it was it was in some ways it was controversial and certainly the right wing press love having a go at him and see him as this sort of
hate figure as a bit of a sort of zealot, as a bit of you know, he's he's one of those Labour figures that they really love to s kind of have a go at.
But he did seem to be someone who, yeah, got on with his area of government and and yeah, seemed to be able to get stuff done.
And certainly, you know, lots of kind of the kind of left wing economists that I talked to were really keen on this idea.
Right.
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