laurie policy laurie laban a policy researcher, keeps his company as well.lking about the escaped convict . about the escaped convict. richard says surely there must be dashcam footage of his escape. yes richard, this is what i'm saying. escape. yes richard, this is what i'm saying . the ones with what i'm saying. the ones with roundabout is really , really roundabout is really, really busy. these aren't just random roundabout in the middle of nowhere . it's really busy nowhere. it's really busy anyway, clive says daniel is correct. we send our convicts to jail for far too long. it should be hard labour as a deterrent. he goes on to say, lots of people questioning why this fellow was in wandsworth prison in the first place. ron says we should prisons, should build more prisons, employ staff and lock up employ more staff and lock up all the wrong ones . challenges, all the wrong ones. challenges, though. ron, there'll big though. ron, there'll be a big debate classifies as debate about what classifies as a wrong'un in this day and age. yeah.ian a wrong'un in

. policy researcher laurie laban.thank you very much indeed, both of . so first week, back of you. so first week, back after the recess. the government is supposed to be setting the agenda or they'd like to be setting the agenda instead , it's setting the agenda instead, it's appears as though they're fighting fires on many fronts . yes. >> and it feels like it has been this way for quite some time. it's been hard for them to wrest control of the agenda and talk about anything other than just the of damage limitation the kind of damage limitation exercises that we seem to see week after week. i mean, this was a very unfortunate timing for this issue to spring up. i mean, government argue mean, the government would argue that what's happened is that the experts who are advising them that what's happened is that the expertthe 10 are advising them that what's happened is that the expertthe concrete vising them that what's happened is that the expertthe concrete suddenlym about the concrete suddenly changed their mind and

, let's bnng >> okay, laurie laban, let's bring you in. change in policy? i don't think there should be. >> the world is experiencing a number of technological revolutions at the moment. we often about al, course, often hear about al, of course, another revolution that's going on is in green technologies that is happening all around the world. that's been in world. that's never been in question. question been world. that's never been in quesmuch question been world. that's never been in quesmuch the question been world. that's never been in quesmuch the uk stion been world. that's never been in quesmuch the uk can| been world. that's never been in quesmuch the uk can benefiten world. that's never been in quesmuch the uk can benefit from how much the uk can benefit from that revolution . it can benefit that revolution. it can benefit a number of ways. it can attract companies to invest in the uk to bnng companies to invest in the uk to bring their factories and other things that are making green technologies. it can then benefit from the jo

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