Shadow Secretary of State for Transport

Yeah, no, and there's obviously quite a few opinions in the story around what and why this is happening.

Interestingly, the Shadow Transport Secretary, Richard Holden, said that the ZEB mandate and higher energy costs were crippling the British automotive industry, pledging to scrap the mandate and that the UK government sustainable investment and finance association has defended the zen mandate previously calling it crucial for attracting finance into this infrastructure as it sets out a clear predictable pathway for the growth of the electric vehicle market so yeah i mean there's a lot going on here in there that could be influencing but as you say i mean that's a significant saving But there's a lot of jobs just in that business in the UK.

Yeah, and staying with Land Rover for the next story, which is from AM Online, the headline is, how an old Land Rover dealership is to become a MotorJQ London flagship.

Well, I remember when this site opened, because it is 10 years ago, and it was around the time of the revived London Motor Show in Battersea.

Let's cross though now to Westminster.

Delighted to have Richard Holden, Shadow Transport Secretary under Kemi Badenoch.

Good morning, Richard.

How are you?

I, I, I think it's the beginning of the, the mask falling off completely.

Richard Holden, we appreciate your time.

Shadow Transport Secretary and Kemi Badenoch, Shadow Cabinet.

Always good to have everyone.

She writes musicals.

She is the Tim Rice in her partnership with Andrew Lloyd Webber, and she's written five musicals, one an adaptation of The Railway Children, which may have made her a candidate for Shadow Transport Secretary, perhaps.

But I look forward to her writing a musical about our time in central office.

Gerald, exclamation mark, after the famous Guardian of the Post Room.

I'm an admirer of Louise Haig.

Based on what she did in the few weeks, she was allowed to be Transport Secretary and a Shadow Transport Secretary.

So that is read and Burnham arrives with a sense of context of what is wrong with Britain over what he frames as a sort of 40-year time frame in ways which I find potentially very potent.

But there are some concerns.