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Hi, I'm Anouche, and I'm Arthur. Steven is on a well-deserved holiday this week, spending

time with five people maximum. I do as I like. Yeah, outdoors only of course. On today's New

Statement Podcast, we're discussing Alex Salmond's new party and you ask us, is Keir Starmer preparing

for a reshuffle? So last Friday, Alex Salmond announced that he will be making yet another comeback

this time with his own new political party called Alba, but I've heard that I may not be pronouncing

that correctly, so Alba, maybe you can, you can clear that up for me. But the idea is that

the idea is that the party will run not for the constituencies up for grabs in the

Holyrood elections, but for the list, which is the second half of the voting system there.

The intention is to try and get a super majority for pro-independence parties in that election result.

Amber, you've been, Alba, sorry. Alba, tell me saddened, because I think this is going to be a problem

for as long as this party exists. You've been sort of looking at how this could possibly play out

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