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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 impossible to prevent government from sliding back. And the key issue is this pledge which was made...

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Apologising for the fact that as a minister, isaid it. and that's fair enough, a minister needs to toe the line. and, to be clear, for those listening and watching, what you did when a parliamentary committee, a bipartisan so—called privileges committee, had looked at borisjohnson�*s words and behaviours around this partygate scandal that we all remember, the privileges committee ultimately found that borisjohnson had deliberately misled the house of commons. he had committed a contempt of parliament. you then came out and dismissed the findings of that bipartisan committee as, "an appalli...

So, this was the narrative that was put out by number 10 after i resigned, and it's just not true. i was asked very politely by a colleague, a friend in number 10, to issue a soft apology, not apologising for what i said, but apologising for the fact that as a minister, isaid it. and that's fair enough, a minister needs to toe the line. and, to be clear, for those listening and watching, what you did when a parliamentary committee, a bipartisan so—called privileges committee, had looked at borisjohnson�*s words and behaviours around this partygate scandal that we all remember, the privileg...

Person in the foreign and commonwealth office knows, that we are not going to meet that target. no civil servants would ever come on this programme and tell you that we're going to meet 11.6, they will tell you the opposite, or they'll say nothing at all, as civil servants are wont to do. i want to continue our conversation about the environmental challenges and the way the government is trying to meet them and its commitment or otherwise to net zero by 2050, come back to all of that. but i have to, at this point, as we've talked about your resignation from government, get into one other issue...