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Coffee House Shots

Coffee House Scots: is the SNP shifting right?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In the first of The Spectator's special Coffee House Scots series, Michael Simmons speaks to Isabel Hardman, Katy Balls and Stephen Daisley about the SNP leadership race. Given that the main motivation uniting the SNP is the ambition for an independent Scotland, how do the candidates differ ideologically?

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0:00.0

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0:23.9

Hello, I'm Michael Simmons and this is Coffee House Scots,

0:27.2

a new Scottish edition of the Spectator's Daily Political Podcast.

0:31.7

I'm joined today by Isabel Hardman, Katie Bulls and Stephen Daisley.

0:36.2

The spectator is full of Scots, but to make it on to this podcast,

0:39.8

you have to have a very specific claim.

0:42.0

So we thought we'd go around and stake our claim to be on Coffee House Scots.

0:45.6

Katie, could you start us off?

0:47.0

I'm hoping this is enough to be invited back,

0:49.2

but we'll see, born in Aberdeen and in Scotland to the age of 18 continuously.

0:56.0

Fairly strong, Isabel?

0:57.7

I'm not Scottish, but I live in Scotland.

1:00.2

I live in West Lothian just outside of Lylithco.

1:03.0

A new Scots as Sturgeon would have referred to you.

1:05.8

And how about you, Stephen?

1:08.3

Well, I live in Scotland, but you have to balance that out against this unfortunate fact.

1:14.2

I have never in my life drank Iron Brew.

1:18.4

Disgrace, you won't be invited back after that mission.

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