Summary
Speculation around a potential by-election is heating up. Will it be a contest in Rutherglen and Hamilton? Is it ok to say we're missing election fever? We look ahead to the next General Election and where the parties might be concentrating their efforts. The team is joined by polling expert Mark Diffley to give trending insights, polling analysis and informed speculation on the elections ahead.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:10.1 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:16.3 | It brings you an inside look at the biggest stories |
| 0:18.4 | coming out of Holyroods and Westminster. |
| 0:20.4 | It's five minutes |
| 0:21.1 | past one. On Thursday the 25th of May, I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow, and today |
| 0:27.1 | I'm joined by. Hello, I'm Andrew Kerr, one of BBC Scotland's political correspondence, and I'm |
| 0:32.3 | speaking to you from our Holyrood office. And hello, I'm Mark Diffley. I am a political |
| 0:37.1 | pollster and I'm the director of the Diffley. I am a political pollster and underdirector of the |
| 0:38.8 | Diffley Partnership, a research company based in Edinburgh and I am in Edinburgh as well at the moment. |
| 0:43.4 | Andrew and Mark, I think those are the most polite introductions we've ever had on political. |
| 0:48.7 | It was a little bit like the start of University Challenge. I loved it though. Hello, I'm here |
| 0:53.6 | from this place. How lovely to have you both on. |
| 0:57.5 | Thanks so much for joining us. Andrew, is this your first time on the podcast? It is my first time in |
| 1:01.7 | political, yes. Yeah, very first one. Have you managed to escape that? That's unbelievable. |
| 1:06.7 | Andrew, famous in the office for being the busiest man, I'm always just doing lots of different things. |
| 1:12.1 | So you've probably been too hard for us to pin down. |
| 1:14.3 | And Mark, is this the first time for you too? |
| 1:16.7 | It is, which is why I was so polite in my introduction. |
| 1:18.5 | He's so polite and so kind. |
| 1:19.9 | Unusually for me. |
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