Digging A Deep Hole (with Tim Farron MP)

Plans to go ahead with the country's first new deep coal mine in 30 years have been waved through by the government despite outrage from environmentalists and complaints that it will undermine the U.K.'s staging of the COP26 international climate conference in November.Former Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron is the MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale, a constituency near the proposed mine. He tells Bloomberg Westminster's Caroline Hepker and Roger Hearing claims that it will bring long-term jobs to the area are bogus, and the U.K. will be laughed out of the room in climate talks.Plus how do you persuade minority communities to get a coronavirus vaccine? We discuss with Kawsar Zaman, who has founded a nationwide volunteer-led campaign to increase the uptake of the jab.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.