Summary
As Holyrood stands for summer recess, parties appear to be gearing up not slowing down. The team looks back on the last Parliamentary period, which saw two Monarchs, two First Ministers, and three Prime Ministers, and discuss why it seems that the parties in Scottish Parliament are already on election footing ahead of the next General Election, despite it potentially being over a year away. In what promises to be a busy summertime, the team look to the events and legislation to watch ahead Scottish Parliament returning in September.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.5 | Hi, you're listening to Publicical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.9 | That brings you an inside look at the biggest stories |
| 0:18.4 | coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.6 | It's 12 minutes past two on Thursday the 29th of June. |
| 0:24.4 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow. |
| 0:27.2 | But today I am in the Scottish Parliament in very close quarters with... |
| 0:32.2 | Hi, I'm Phil Sim. |
| 0:33.6 | Should I say I'm a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament? |
| 0:35.6 | You've given the game away. |
| 0:36.4 | There's a spoiler, Lucy. |
| 0:38.1 | And I'm Kirsten Campbell and I'm also a political journalist based at the Scottish Parliament? You've given the game away. There's a spoiler, Lucy. And I'm Kirsten Campbell, and I'm also a political correspondent based at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:42.2 | I'm just going to paint a fixture for everyone here. |
| 0:44.3 | We are in the tiniest little studio in the Holiday Road office. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm a tiny wee bit claustrophobic, but you guys broadcast from here all the time, so you must be used to. And a lot of the MSPs will be familiar with the studio too. |
| 0:56.5 | They would pop in and do interviews with some of our radio programs from here, so they're used to it too. |
| 1:01.5 | But it's not big. |
| 1:02.8 | It's teeny. |
| 1:03.5 | It's quite often you'll walk past the window and not realise, and you look through the glass, be like sitting there and like, ah, what have we been saying? Probably a near shot of you. |
| 1:16.3 | Yes, I don't know, four phone booth sizes or something. Yeah, I mean, it's nice though to be all together today. We're here because it's the last day of term here at Holy Roots. And what a term. |
| 1:22.9 | And what a term it has been. It has been extraordinary, though, Lucy. When we, this term started, we've had |
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