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Hi, I'm Anouche. I'm Alva. And I'm Steven.

And on today's New Statement Podcast, we discuss the new Scottish Labour Leader and you ask us,

will Kia Starmer choose a new Shadow Chancellor?

So we're going to take two you ask us questions this week because we've had so many questions coming

and they've all been really interesting. So the first one is with the election of yet another new leader,

Water Labour's Prospects in Scotland, and can the party make a comeback without embracing pro-independence position?

That's from Martin Warn. And sorry, I actually didn't give you guys a chance to say you ask us.

We can do it for the next one. Exactly. Luckily we have another opportunity.

I should be honest think that at this point, while you can construct a very elegant and I think persuasive argument

that the Scottish Labour Party would long term have been in a better off position,

would not have been victim to the kind of political climate change that befell it in 2014.

If it had had a more agnostic position on the constitution over a longer period of time,

and it had been able to be a party which contained some nationalists within it,

obviously it contained some nationalists within it among its voters, right?

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