Summary
It's been a not-so-happy Easter for the Prime Minister as he was fined by the Met police. Over the Westminster and Holyrood recess, the prime minister, the chancellor Rishi Sunak and the PM's wife all received fixed penalty notices for attending a birthday gathering for Boris Johnson in No 10. Now, the pair face calls to resign by opposition parties and several Tory backbenchers. With no further potential actions being taken by the Metropolitan police until after the May local elections, will the public anger die down, or are problems being compounded for the PM and his cabinet? The team also discuss First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's face mask rule breach over the weekend, and the row over the Chancellor's wife's non-dom tax status.
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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 |
| 0:14.0 | Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:16.0 | that brings you an inside look at the big stories |
| 0:18.4 | coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.5 | It's five past two on Thursday the 21st of April. |
| 0:24.9 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow. |
| 0:27.8 | And today I'm joined by... |
| 0:29.2 | Nick Adelaide at Westminster. |
| 0:31.1 | And Phil Sim at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:33.7 | So I think five past two is the earliest record start time for a long, long time. |
| 0:40.5 | Is that kind of like back to school promptness, if you will, that we don't usually have? |
| 0:47.0 | We'll just blame Rajdie for Lindsay for the fact that we're not only about that. |
| 0:50.6 | We do endeavour to kind of start about two, but it never ever happens. |
| 0:56.2 | Yes, so welcome back everyone back everyone yeah so much to say |
| 0:58.2 | super keen uniforms all laid out |
| 1:00.4 | and press cool bag clean |
| 1:02.0 | nothing lurking at the bottom of it |
| 1:04.0 | ready to go |
| 1:05.0 | yeah but |
| 1:06.2 | sorry did you guys actually |
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