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Sheridan Cates

Sheridan Cates

Ecological economist and Green Party councillor for Tufnell Park, Islington, and Economics Policy Working Group Co-Convenor for the Green Party of England and Wales.

Aug 11, 2026

The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly

The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly

#217 Shaping Green Party Policy with Sheridan Kates

Aug 11 · 1h 4m

Christian Reilly
Christian ReillyHOST
2:28
I'd love to know what it was that first got you interested in politics and perhaps made you realise that you could make a difference.
Sheridan Kates
Sheridan KatesGUEST
2:34
Yeah, I was thinking about this and honestly, like it all happened at once.
Sheridan Kates
Sheridan KatesGUEST
2:38
Like embarrassingly, I didn't really come to politics that early.
Sheridan Kates
Sheridan KatesGUEST
2:41
I was very embedded in the tech industry.
Sheridan Kates
Sheridan KatesGUEST
2:44
My background is engineering and I ended up going into software engineering in particular and had a tech career for about 15 years.
Sheridan Kates
Sheridan KatesGUEST
2:52
And I think just during that time, I started to find these like really common threads in all these companies out there.
Sheridan Kates
Sheridan KatesGUEST
2:59
They very much had this I don't know, this like public facing persona of wanting to do good, but then maybe not always making the right decisions.

27 MINS LATER

Christian Reilly
Christian ReillyHOST
29:50
Does that conversation happen much or are things a bit more about local issues?

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