Blew The Doors Off
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Labour celebrates victory in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election, with leader Keir Starmer claiming the party "blew the doors off" as candidate Michael Shanks oversaw a landslide win over the SNP. The team gather to discuss the mood on the ground in Rutherglen and Hamilton West, what this might tell us about the next General Election (and what it doesn't), and where this leaves First Minister Humza Yousaf's SNP following their first defeat since he took office.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:10.0 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast that brings you the biggest stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.0 | It's nine minutes past 12 on Friday the 6th of October. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow. |
| 0:26.0 | And today I'm joined by. |
| 0:27.3 | I'm Phil Sim, a journalist normally based at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:30.0 | Today coming to you from a car park out the back of Ruthergland Town Hall. |
| 0:34.4 | And I'm Georgia Roberts, a journalist normally based in Westminster, but today coming |
| 0:38.9 | to you from my home in South London, recovering from Conservative Party Conference and gearing |
| 0:44.5 | up for another one in Liverpool for Labour. Yeah, so they're much talked about, and I feel like |
| 0:49.1 | it's okay to say much talked about, because we have been talking about this by election here |
| 0:52.8 | on Podlisco for a long, long time. |
| 0:55.1 | Rutherglin and Hamilton West, it finally happened. |
| 0:58.0 | We've got the results overnight. |
| 1:00.0 | An emphatic win, I think it's fair enough to say for Labour. |
| 1:03.2 | You've been spending the morning in the constituency. |
| 1:07.6 | First of all, what's it been like? |
| 1:09.5 | What have the vibes been? |
| 1:10.9 | I mean, obviously Labour are ecstatic, and they it been like? What have the vibes been? I mean, obviously, Labor are ecstatic, |
| 1:13.5 | and they are the only ones here at the moment. |
| 1:16.0 | The S&P kind of just went home to their beds after the count last night. |
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