Liam Thorp

Nish, ever since I saw you attempting to be a local journalist, I've been inspired.

Everyone tells us that they could do this job better than us.

And I think you proved that that's not true.

You know, this has been, I think most people would have to say, a government of disappointment so far.

I think anyone who was hoping to see real radical change from the Labour Party has been met with not that and a lot of screeching U-turns and frustrations really.

So on something like this,

And obviously, we're just getting the detail this morning, so I will need to see more and more of it.

But it feels positive that there is some big decisions being made on this and some big numbers behind them.

So, you know, £15 billion over five years is not to be sniffed at.

We all know that this kind of issue, these green issues need to be tackled.

Well, we don't all know that.

Most reform-led councils don't believe in it at all.

But I think what this is doing is it's putting the green agenda, it's combining it with the cost of living agenda.

And if you ask anyone in any part of the country really what the big issue is, I think cost of living is the top one.

And if I was advising the Labour government, I'd tell them to stop talking so much about immigration and to talk about the cost of living because that is still the biggest impact.

We've just seen today inflation going up.

We know, and certainly in regions like the one I cover here in Merseyside,

Many, many people are in different kinds of poverty, including fuel poverty, which will obviously be attempted to be dealt with here.

And when I speak to people about the green stuff, about, you know, obviously trying to help with climate change, a lot of people say, well, you know, that's not really something I can focus on at the moment.

I've got to put food on the table.