Beyond the Horizon

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The team returns to discuss the Post Office scandal and conversion therapy laws. In Westminster, Prime Minister Sunak has announced emergency legislation to ensure hundreds of wrongly convicted subpostmasters, who were prosecuted due to faulty Horizon software used by the Post Office, will have their names cleared, with Humza Yousaf's Scottish Government looking to follow suit. Also in Scotland, the government is set to seek opinions on banning the controversial practice of conversion therapy. What does this tell us about their areas of focus in the upcoming election?

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.4	You're listening to BBC Scotland
0:09.9	Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast
0:15.9	That brings you an inside look at the big stories
0:18.2	coming out of Holyrood and Westminster.
0:22.6	It is six minutes past two on Thursday the 11th of January. I'm Lucy White, a journalist
0:26.4	based in Glasgow. Today I'm joined by
0:28.4	Georgia Roberts, Westminster correspondent based in Westminster.
0:32.5	And I'm David Wallace Locker, political correspondent in Hollywood.
0:36.2	I know that it's way past the date where you're allowed to say Happy New Year,
0:38.9	but we've not spoken yet officially in podcast terms in the New Year.
0:43.2	So happy new podcast year, David and Georgia.
0:47.1	I have actually had a rule from today that I'm not saying Happy New Year anymore,
0:52.0	but if it's Happy New Podcasts year
0:54.3	I'll let that slide. That's a whole
0:56.0	different thing isn't it? I hope
0:58.2	you guys have had a slightly less rocky start
0:59.9	of the year than I have which has just been I've been
1:01.9	plagued by illness essentially
1:03.9	since the 1st of January
1:05.5	and had this awful cough that I know that lots of
1:08.0	other people have got which makes... That was me
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