Attack, Appeal, Alienate?

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

How do politicians balance attacking the opposition, while appealing to their voters? In a week where parties have toed the line between attacking their political rivals while trying to woo their voter bases, the team discuss the risk of alienating the very people you want to win votes from. As the Conservative leadership look to the Rwanda Bill to define themselves as different from past iterations of the party ahead of the upcoming election, so too have opposition parties been defining themselves in relation to the Conservatives. Labour have been accused of aligning themselves with Margaret Thatcher, and the SNP have faced criticism over their rhetoric following the SNP event this week, where First Minister Humza Yousaf said he wanted to use the election to as an opportunity to make Scotland "Tory free".

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.4	You're listening to BBC Scotland
0:09.5	Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast
0:15.9	that brings you an inside look at the big stories
0:18.1	coming of Hollywood and Westminster.
0:20.2	It is 19 minutes past two
0:22.5	on Thursday the 21st of March. I'm Lucy White, a journalist who's usually based in Glasgow, but
0:28.6	today I'm in Hollywood with David Wallace Lockhart, political correspondent. And in Westminster,
0:34.6	Georgia, George Roberts, Westminster correspondent. Oh, I'm sorry you're not here with us.
0:38.6	I know, feeling left out, but it's fine.
0:41.0	I'm sure we'll all be together again soon.
0:42.9	I'm sure we will. I'm sure we will.
0:45.8	So yeah, I'm here today, which is lovely to be looking at David Rund,
0:49.6	the same little tiny cubicle.
0:51.5	We've done the podcast.
0:52.4	Very, very kind of you.
0:57.8	We've done the podcast in here a couple of times before, so we're sort of getting familiar with it now.
1:00.4	It's a kind of funny point of the year, isn't it?
1:02.2	Because we're getting used to or ready for recess.
1:06.2	It's recess at Westminster next week.
1:08.9	And then it's another week before it's the same at
1:12.2	Hollywood and I guess in a sliding doors type of moment and in another universe at this point
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