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🗓️ 22 May 2023
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After years of decline north of the border, can a win for Labour in Scotland clear the path for Keir Starmer to secure a majority and get the keys to No 10?
Matt talks to Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar, Times Scottish Political Editor Kieran Andrews and pollster Emily Gray from Ipsos Scotland.
Plus: Columnists Rachel Sylvester and Libby Purves discuss whether Labour's promises have cut through with the voters, the London theatre holding a 'black only' night and Giles Coren explains what it's like to go on a speed awareness course.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Webbox Podcast. I'm Matt. Surely bringing you the best of my times |
| 0:08.1 | video show you can listen live Monday to Friday, 10 till 1. On your DAB radio, on your smart |
| 0:13.3 | speaker or on the Times Radio app. But every day on the podcast we bring you our comments |
| 0:18.3 | panel and the big thing. The big thing today, we're taking a look at the politics of Scotland. |
| 0:23.8 | If Keir Starmer's got any hope of becoming Prime Minister, the path to number 10 runs |
| 0:27.4 | through Scotland. We'll take a look at the polling, will we visit our focus group and |
| 0:32.3 | we're joined by the Scottish Labour leader Anna Sauer to see how he thinks things are |
| 0:37.3 | going. That's coming up in just a moment. First, as ever, it's time for the Colomists. |
| 0:41.5 | The Colomists with Libby Raichy, Libby Purvis and Rachel Sylvester on Times Radio. And we |
| 0:52.3 | say hello to Libby. Hello, Libby. Hello. We say hello to Rachel. Hi, Matt. Now, Rachel, |
| 0:59.0 | where are you in the world? Well, I am in an ambulance station. So if a siren suddenly |
| 1:03.1 | goes off, then I will, it may disrupt the call. But I'm about to go out on a 12 hour shift |
| 1:09.9 | with two paramedics in an ambulance, which I think is going to be absolutely fascinating |
| 1:14.9 | for the Health Commission to see what it's like and to learn how they operate. Are you going |
| 1:23.3 | to be allowed to turn the sirens on? I don't know. I'll ask. Probably not. I think I'm |
| 1:29.3 | an observer, so have you been told giving any sense of what to expect? No, that's the point |
| 1:36.2 | is absolutely random. We have no idea. I'm probably go out on five or six calls, but they |
| 1:42.5 | could be anything from, you know, minor major. I'm in Hormerton in East London. So in fact, |
| 1:49.6 | that's quite near where I live with quite a lot of sort of knife crime could be traffic accidents |
| 1:55.2 | or could be domestic violence could be absolutely anything. That's the, that's the fascination of |
| 2:00.7 | the same thing. Well, we're checking with you next week to find out how you get on. Well, in fact, |
| 2:07.0 | it's not just you talking about health today. Keir Starmer has been making a speech on the |
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