00:00It's the first time since, I believe, Nick Clegg, that we've had a Sheffield MP in the Cabinet,
00:06in a senior position in the Cabinet, with Louise Hades, the Transport Secretary.
00:10What do you make of Louise?
00:12Oh, I think she's quietly got on with the job.
00:15You can see that from the increased majority she got in the Healy constituency.
00:21She's quietly got on with the job behind the scenes in
00:24opposition and she's doing it now.
00:26She's got some very, very big challenges in terms of switching funding so that new priorities,
00:35not on rail, on road, on big transformational schemes like Lower Thames Crossing.
00:41These are multi-billion pound projects and her task is both to negotiate with the
00:48Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, about what stays, what goes, what's switched,
00:53and to have an eye to the growth agenda, the productivity agenda, the north and east-west
01:02northern links and the gross under-investment in the north, whilst recognising that there's
01:09also a north-south link as well. So these are very, very big challenges and I know she'll be up for it.
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