100 Days of Labour + Alex Salmond Dies

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🗓️ 13 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Today we look at the first 100 days of the Labour government and the death of Alex Salmond.

Laura, Paddy and Henry discuss it appears Labour have smoothed over a potentially expensive row with DP World ahead of a big business summit.

And, they look at the former SNP leader Alex Salmond’s career, after his death on Saturday.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Paddy O’Connell and Laura Kuenssberg with Henry Zeffman. It was made by Chris Flynn with Gemma Roper and Keiligh Baker. The technical producer was Jack Graysmark. The editor is Sam Bonham

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Well, it's been a very busy news weekend and there was a world when there was no
0:09.5	podcast on Sunday and now everything seems to happen at the weekend because we had the
0:15.0	Prime Minister on the chair where you sit and then we had the sudden death of Alex
0:19.5	Sammond and of course all the global events that are going on too.
0:23.0	That's right and the passing of Alex Samid is a hugely significant political event
0:28.0	not just to mark his massive influence on Scottish and UK politics, but also somebody who'd been a fixture of politics for a very long time,
0:38.0	you know several decades with a career of lots of very significant highs and also lots of very significant lows but
0:44.3	somebody who had been around part of the political fabric for a very very long time.
0:48.6	Memories Henry? Well I kind of missed his heyday. I didn't cover the Scottish Independence Referendum in particular and I've never been based in Scotland but I do remember when he returned to Westminster in 2015 with that massive group of Scottish National Party MPs.
1:10.0	And I remember how visibly he loved being in the House of Commons.
1:15.0	Which is probably a bit of a paradox given that he obviously wanted there to be no Scottish
1:19.5	MPs in the House of Commons ultimately, but it was very striking how he relished debate
1:26.4	and frankly winding his opponents up,
1:29.4	but often through rhetoric as much as through disagreement and that is definitely something that I remember
1:37.0	about how he approached politics and I think that's probably why actually there's a
1:41.0	striking amount of respect mixed in with the other more complicated aspects of the
1:44.9	tributes to him from his political opponents over the last day.
1:48.0	I mean I'm struck by what you both say there because I can remember that brillo in Parliament and that amazing life
1:55.8	force that all those S&P members were.
1:58.9	But of course I was based in Scotland, I was at the referendum, but also I was a student in Scotland. I was at the referendum but also I was a student in Scotland and I
2:05.0	remember going on rallies when I was 19 and there was Alex Sammond on the podium.
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