Continuity and Unity?
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Humza Yousaf wins the SNP leadership contest, so what next for the party? The team react to the result of the SNP leadership contest, which saw Health Secretary Humza Yousaf beat out Kate Forbes in the second round of voting, after Ash Regan was eliminated in the first round, pipping her to the post with 52.1% of the votes versus Forbes' 47.9%. As the Bute House Agreement with the Scottish Greens looks to continue, it seems Yousaf's path to First Minister is clear, but with the vote so close, can he now heal a divided party? The team look ahead to the next steps Yousaf may take, how his cabinet may shape up, and what his victory means for the SNP and Scotland.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:10.2 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:16.1 | That brings you an inside look at the biggest stories |
| 0:18.2 | coming out of Holyroods and Westminster. |
| 0:20.5 | It is 22 minutes past six on Monday the 27th of March. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow. |
| 0:28.8 | Today I'm joined by. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm Lindsay Buse, a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:33.3 | And I'm Phil Sim, a journalist also based at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:36.9 | Good evening to you both. Hi, Lucy. |
| 0:39.6 | Hello. |
| 0:40.2 | What a day it has been. We are gathering after all three of us have had a relatively busy day. |
| 0:47.3 | I think it's fair enough to say in what lots of people have been calling a momentous day for |
| 0:53.0 | Scottish politics and indeed for the political landscape across the UK. |
| 0:57.3 | And I think for once that's maybe not hyperbole. |
| 1:00.9 | It's been a pretty big day. |
| 1:03.1 | We now have a new leader of the SNP and presumably are going to plan tomorrow a new First Minister of Scotland, Lindsay. |
| 1:12.3 | Yeah, a very big day for Humsey Yusuf, because he has won that contest, of course, by 52% of the vote to 48%, |
| 1:21.0 | which went to Kate Forbes in the second round after Ash Regan was knocked out. |
| 1:25.4 | And it's a huge day for him personally. |
| 1:28.6 | He's the youngest first minister, the first Muslim in the job, the first person from an ethnic |
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