Summary
The Prime Minister faces questions over the funding of the No. 10 flat refurbishment. Chris Mason joins the team to discuss the allegations facing PM Boris Johnson, and what kind of impact it may or may not have on the Holyrood election next week. Following the allegations he said he would rather see "bodies pile high" than take the country into a third lockdown, and the Labour leader Keir Starmer accusing the government of being "mired in sleaze", will this flat fiasco damage the Prime Minister's reputation, or is it too complex to cut through to the public?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.8 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:16.1 | That brings you an inside look at the biggest stories coming out of Holyrood and Westminster |
| 0:20.2 | It's three minutes |
| 0:21.5 | past two on thursday the 29th of april i'm lucy white in glasgow and today also in glasgow with me |
| 0:28.9 | it's rashi sandy i don't know why someone's naming the third person but i felt like i needed to like |
| 0:34.0 | really big myself up rash do you say her name as if she's going into a wrestling match or something. |
| 0:40.7 | Amazing. |
| 0:41.5 | We're in the same room so we're giddy. |
| 0:43.0 | We're two metres apart but we're delighted to be in the same room. |
| 0:45.7 | Who else is here but not physically here? |
| 0:48.4 | I feel like I should have like intro music or something now for my entry to the ring. |
| 0:52.8 | But I'm Phil Seve and I'm not in Glasgow I'm |
| 0:56.5 | in East Lothian and I'm Chris Mason and I'm not in Glasgow I'm in Westminster marvelling |
| 1:02.5 | Lucy at the precise nature of your time check just now oh we always have to do it just quite |
| 1:07.6 | on the on the minute not on the second but on the minute like to know, let people know because our theory is sometimes the news moves so fast. So it gives |
| 1:16.4 | us a bit of an out, doesn't it? So something happens, you know, after our time. |
| 1:20.5 | Yeah, exactly. Chris, thank you so much for joining us again on Podlitical. Oh, thanks for |
| 1:25.5 | having me. So you're not in Scotland right now, |
| 1:28.7 | but do I understand it correctly? You might be coming up in the next couple of days. Yeah, |
| 1:33.3 | I am jumping on a train on Friday morning, so tomorrow morning as we record, to do any questions |
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