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For years, politicians have ramped up the rhetoric of concern and pledged to speed up emissions cuts, but now there are signs of a political backlash. Uk Prime Minister rishi sunak is championing new Oil Exploration and reining in spending on climate aid. That prompted my guest, zac goldsmith, to quit suna k� s government. But in an age of populist politics, has going green become another ideologicalfaultline . Zac, lord goldsmith, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure t...

Zac, lord goldsmith, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you here. Just a couple of months ago, you left rishi sunak� s government and, as you left, you lobbed a political grenade in his direction. Why did you do that . My concern is that, you know, im maybe a rare thing, a minister who cares passionately, or cared passionately about my portfolio. And ifound myjob was becoming untenable, it was becoming impossible for me to go forward. It was becoming virtually...

Zac, lord goldsmith, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you here. Just a couple of months ago, you left rishi sunak� s government and, as you left, you lobbed a political grenade in his direction. Why did you do that . My concern is that, you know, im maybe a rare thing, a minister who cares passionately, or cared passionately about my portfolio. And ifound myjob was becoming untenable, it was becoming impossible for me to go forward. It was becoming virtually...

Zac, lord goldsmith, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you here. Just a couple of months ago, you left rishi sunak� s government and, as you left, you lobbed a political grenade in his direction. Why did you do that . My concern is that, you know, im maybe a rare thing, a minister who cares passionately, or cared passionately about my portfolio. And ifound myjob was becoming untenable, it was becoming impossible for me to go forward. It was becoming virtually...

Zac, lord goldsmith, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you here. Just a couple of months ago, you left rishi sunak� s government, and, as you left, you lobbed a political grenade in his direction. Why did you do that . My concern is that, you know, im maybe a rare thing, a minister who cares passionately, or cared passionately about my portfolio. And ifound myjob was becoming untenable, it was becoming impossible for me to go forward. It was becoming virtuall...

Zac, lord goldsmith, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you here. Just a couple of months ago, you left rishi sunak� s government and, as you left, you lobbed a political grenade in his direction. Why did you do that . My concern is that, you know, im maybe a rare thing, a minister who cares passionately, or cared passionately about my portfolio. And ifound myjob was becoming untenable, it was becoming impossible for me to go forward. It was becoming virtually...

Happening in politics. theres a very interesting comment from tim bale, a respected professor of politics at london university, he says, "what we are seeing right now is the tory party "in particular engaging in a much more populist way "of handling the climate challenge." and its not actually just in this country, we see it in other countries too. does that worry you? well, it depends what you mean by that. there are two things — there are the policies and theres the language. and its absolut...

Broader way about whats happening in politics. theres a very interesting comment from tim bale, a respected professor of politics at london university, he says, "what we are seeing right now is the tory party "in particular engaging in a much more populist way "of handling the climate challenge." and its not actually just in this country, we see it in other countries too. does that worry you? well, it depends what you mean by that. there are two things — there are the policies and theres the l...

Of handling the climate challenge." and its not actually just in this country, we see it in other countries too. does that worry you? well, it depends what you mean by that. there are two things — there are the policies and theres the language. and its absolutely right that parties should debate the best possible policies for achieving what we want to achieve. and as i said before, theres bad policy, theres good policy. no, but the populism element is partly... ..but the language. well, the is...

Issues, because its the only thing that matters. lets just think in a slightly broader way about whats happening in politics. theres a very interesting comment from tim bale, a respected professor of politics at london university, he says, "what we are seeing right now is the tory party in particular engaging in a much more populist way of handling the climate challenge." and its not actually just in this country, we see it in other countries too. does that worry you? well, it depends what you m...