The Green Alliance Podcast

An interview with Bim Afolami ('Insights' series 4 - episode 7)

Episode Summary

In this episode, we speak to Bim Afolami, MP for Hitchin and Harpenden and chair of the Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group (PRASEG), about how the government can ensure clean power for the UK by 2035 and whether there is too much focus on ‘red wall’ seats.

Episode Notes

Green Alliance’s senior political adviser, Joe Tetlow, speaks to Conservative backbench MP Bim Afolami.

With the chancellor’s spending review due in late October 2021 and the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November 2021, the government is under pressure to set out how it will get the country to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

They discuss what needs to happen to achieve 100 per cent clean power by 2035 and whether there’s too much focus on red wall seats in the Midlands and the North.