Summary
Conference season continues as PM Liz Truss this week laid out her vision for the UK. As Rajdeep returns from the Tory conference in Birmingham and Phil gears up to head to the Aberdeen based SNP conference, the team discuss the different plans for the future being shared by political parties. Did Prime Minister Truss' conference speech manage to shore up support from her MPs and calm jumpy markets, and what does the Supreme Court case about a potential second independence referendum mean for the SNP conference and the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's plans.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.6 | Hi, you're listening to |
| 0:13.9 | Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.8 | That brings you an inside look at the big stories |
| 0:18.2 | coming out of Holyroods and Westminster |
| 0:20.1 | It's nine minutes past |
| 0:22.5 | two. On Thursday the 6th of October, I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow and today I'm |
| 0:28.3 | joined by... I'm Phil Sim, a correspondent currently, well usually based at the Scottish Parliament, |
| 0:33.8 | currently in my house, stealing myself for the coming SMP conference. |
| 0:45.9 | And I'm Raj Sip Sundu, a correspondent also based in my house, having just returned literally like 10 minutes ago from Labour Conference. |
| 0:49.6 | I was going to say, we're kind of, you know, at the Tory Conference, Rajshy. |
| 0:56.6 | Sorry, Tory Conference. Oh my God. Sorry. I haven't had enough sleep. Sorry, I just returned from the Tory conference in Birmingham. |
| 0:58.2 | Labour was last week. |
| 1:02.8 | So this underlines my point that I was going to say is they've been constant for the past few weeks, haven't they? |
| 1:05.6 | And they will be, is the S&P the last one, Phil? |
| 1:07.4 | There are some more coming. |
| 1:13.0 | We've still got the Scottish Greens and the Alba party you're having theirs on the same weekend after and then the Scottish Lib Dems coming up |
| 1:16.6 | at the end of October as well. So |
| 1:18.5 | there's still plenty more fun to be |
| 1:20.7 | had. Conference |
| 1:22.5 | season never stops. So yeah |
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