Summary
Does the narrative of leaders in Holyrood and Westminster under pressure match reality? This week, Phil Sim hosts Podlitical and gets down to brass tacks with the team to ask, despite pressures faced by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, if their positions really are under threat? The team discuss the big issues in UK politics this week, from council budgets and cabinet reshuffles, to the continuing trans prisoners row in Scottish Parliament and the pitfalls of polling.
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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 |
| 0:15.8 | that brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:19.6 | It is 10 past 2 on Thursday the 9th of February. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm Phil Sim, a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament, and today I'm joined by. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm Roderjipson, the journalist based in Westminster. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm Lindsay Buse, a journalist normally based at Hollywood, but I'm with Rajdeep today in Westminster. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Glenn Campbell, sitting in Lindsay's normal chair looking, well, |
| 0:39.1 | trying to look at Phil Sim, but there's a big computer screen |
| 0:41.3 | in between us. I can't really see a thing. |
| 0:43.1 | You could be making faces at me or anything. |
| 0:44.9 | I've done that deliberately, clearly. |
| 0:48.3 | Lindsay, are you enjoying |
| 0:49.2 | your holidays in London? |
| 0:50.6 | My holidays? I'm here for work, Phil. |
| 0:54.6 | Philip. I'm here for work, Phil, Philip. |
| 0:55.9 | I'm here for work. |
| 1:00.5 | No, it's been very nice to come down and see Rajdeep and the team down here. |
| 1:02.5 | And yeah, quite an interesting week. |
| 1:04.9 | Probably the highlight was President Zelensky. |
| 1:05.3 | Yeah. |
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