Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images Katie White is showing me a glossy copy of Auto Express magazine, a weekly periodical for motorists that reviews new and used cars. White, the Labour MP for Leeds North West, is working on the transition to electric vehicles as part of her brief as climate minister – a task that has taken on fresh urgency in recent weeks. When we meet on a Tuesday morning at a conference in central London, she tells me about Clyde, a taxi driver who has been navigating the streets of London for the past three decades and whom she met recently on her ministerial rounds. Clyde has recently switched from a petrol engine to an electric vehicle. “He loves it,” she says. (I am later told by a source close to her that she has read the battered copy of Auto Express “cover to cover” to improve her understanding of EVs.) White is one of a team of ministers at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), all working under the Secretary of State, Ed Miliband.…