where you have your artist of the month. who was january? it is such a good thing to be in a city like ours where we have all of this talent coming through and we trade a little bit on past glories, to be honest. our musical past. i have launched this mayor s artist of the month and takes inspiration from the great tony wilson and you might remember often used his slot on the granada reports to promote hands so we are saying, hang on, isn t it time to promote the music of now? the first winners were announced last week, advised by the commission, the ktna, twins from blakely in manchester, born in kenya but doing r&b with a mancunian twine which is very fantastic and we are proud
there is the levelling up white paper, which set out 12 missions. so there is an architecture there for the government to get on with. you could do a queen s speech around how those will be delivered. not all of them will even need legislation. i remember i set out a social mobility strategy within the dfe. we didn t need to pass a bill. the education department. not everything needs a bill through parliament. the question is can you actually get on with delivering those 12 missions? this government set those out a year ago now. we saw the prime minister hurtling grounding than the other week, talking about levelling up. he went to morecambe, he went to gateshead, various others. you seem to be suggesting he is not doing enough or not doing enough quickly enough. is this because this is a borisjohnson project, and you think rishi sunak s heart really isn t in it? no, i think it isjust a complicated agenda no government has ever really managed to get to grips with and has lots of differ
who was january? it is such a good thing to be in a city like ours where we have all of this talent coming through and we trade a little bit on past glories, to be honest. our musical past. i have launched this mayor s artist of the month and takes inspiration from the great tony wilson and you might remember often used his slot on the granada reports to promote bands so we are saying, hang on, isn t it time to promote the music of now? the first winners were announced last week, advised by the commission, the ktna, twins from blakely in manchester, born in kenya but doing r&b with a mancunian twine which is very fantastic and we are proud that they are the inaugural artist of the month. we have got a little clip, summer never dies by the ktna.
sense of flat lining, no sense of economic growth, and what that means, obviously, for businesses, households, the tax take. so even though some of this stuff isn t as bleak as others have predicted, or indeed has been predicted in the past, yes, it is still pretty grim, really. let s talk about some of the stuff that our first guest on this episode, former conservative mp justine greening. hello. hello, adam, how are you? i havejust been making my list of all the jobs you did in government. former education secretary, former minister for women and equalities, international development secretary, transport secretary, and economic secretary to the treasury. i know, quite a lot! literally everything that is happening in the country right now! a great mix, because i got to do treasury, domestic domestic briefs and an international brief, so i really saw government from every side, apart from being in the whips. other than that, yes. and when you look now, having done
that range of governmentjobs, and governing is always difficult in any circumstances, but perhaps particularly at the moment, for all the reasons that newscasters will be familiar with, do you envy the people who are there or do you fear for them? this is a tough time to be delivering government, basically, isn t it? yes, i think it s always difficult. back in 2010 when we had had the big financial crisis, we were that far away from the kind of crisis we had last october, had we not got our finances into shape. i think there are always challenges, and the thing i learned from all of that was, you just have to be so laser focused on what your priorities are, because there will always be headwinds that are trying to blow you off course, and when you don t know where you are going in the first place, you are absolutely stuffed. what you think about rishi sunak s five priorities?