A Really Representative Parliament?

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Campaigner Talat Yaqoob joins the team to examine if we'll have a representative Scottish Parliament, and what steps are being taken by parties to ensure that women and ethnic minority people are able to be an equal part of the political landscape after the Holyrood election. Will MSPs better reflect Scottish society as a whole after May 6th? What more can be done to turn promises into policy? The team discuss this and the latest news from the campaign trail.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.4	You're listening to BBC Scotland
0:09.8	Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast
0:16.1	That brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. It is 19 minutes
0:23.2	past two on Thursday the 8th of April. I'm Lindsay Buse, a journalist based in Edinburgh and today
0:30.0	I'm joined by... I'm Raj Seepsundu and I am based in Glasgow for the foreseeable future.
0:36.2	I'm Nick Erdley still in, but coming to join you guys soon.
0:40.3	And I'm Phil Sim, still in my house in North Berwick.
0:43.9	Are you, Mashdeep and Nick are going to be both in Scotland at the same time.
0:47.9	I know.
0:48.3	Have we got a story on or something?
0:49.5	That is exciting.
0:51.4	It's very exciting.
0:52.5	It's very exciting for me.
0:53.3	I get a change of scene.
0:54.1	Yeah, absolutely. exciting. It's very exciting. It's very exciting for me. I get a change of scene.
1:13.1	Yeah, absolutely. Well, that is because we are in the midst of the election campaign and we now have the full list of candidates for every party. So this week we thought it might be a good time to talk about diversity. This issue of diversity and whether Holyrood will be moving closer to being gender balanced after we get the results of the election. And so today we're
1:18.9	joined by Talit Yakup from the campaign group Women 5050. Talit, thanks so much for coming on the
1:25.3	podcast today. Hello, thanks for having me.
1:28.5	You are very welcome.
1:37.6	So women 50-50 wants to see at least 50% representation of women in parliaments and councils.
1:41.6	What are your thoughts on how the progress on that is going?
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