First Minister John Swinney

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

What can we expect from the new First Minister of Scotland John Swinney? As he officially becomes First Minister this week, following no other candidates putting forward their names for leadership, what might be the priorities and challenges of the new John Swinney administration? With a familiar cabinet and the addition of Kate Forbes as the Deputy First Minister, will it be enough to satisfy the half of the party that backed her against Humza Yousaf last year? The team take a look at what we learnt so far about the SNP's priorities this week, including the FM's first FMQs, and how Swinney's time at the top might unfold.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.4	You're listening to BBC Scotland
0:09.7	Hi, you're listening to
0:13.9	Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast
0:15.9	that brings you the biggest stories
0:17.3	coming out of Holyroote and Westminster.
0:19.5	It's 11 minutes past two on Thursday
0:21.9	the 9th of May. I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow. Today I'm joined by.
0:27.2	Georgia Roberts, Westminster correspondent in Westminster. David Wallace Lockhart, political
0:31.9	correspondent in Hollywood. And Lindsay Buse, also political correspondent based at
0:37.0	Hollywood as well.
0:38.0	Hello everyone. Happy Thursday.
0:41.2	The news continues. We've had quite a glut of it recently, actually, haven't we?
0:45.6	And we are fresh-ish, well, an hour or so past the first First Minister's questions for the new First Minister, John Swinney. Before we get into
0:57.3	what happened today though, I thought it's probably worth just taking everyone through the week
1:01.5	just really quickly because the last time we spoke with this, certainly Lindsay and I, the last
1:05.4	time you and I spoke formally on the podcast, it was last Thursday. A lot has happened in a week hasn't it yeah certainly has
1:14.3	i'm actually sitting here trying to think like what was happening last Thursday where were we at last
1:19.8	Thursday so that was the launch of john swinn's campaign let's see thank you for that reminder yes
1:24.9	the launch of his campaign um and then over the weekend,
1:29.1	last chance for anyone else to pitch in with their bid to become SMP leader,
1:33.9	there was an attempt that was perhaps going to be made by one of the SMP members
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