Summary
SNP media chief Murray Foote and chief executive Peter Murrell resign over membership row. The team react to the news that happened over the weekend, and explore how a row over membership figures snowballed into these two major resignations for the party. What does it mean for the three candidates vying to be the next leader of the SNP, and for the party itself?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:10.1 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.9 | That brings you an inside look at the biggest stories |
| 0:18.3 | coming out of Holyroods and Westminster. |
| 0:20.5 | It's quarter past |
| 0:21.3 | three on Monday the 20th of March. I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow and today I'm |
| 0:27.3 | joined by... I'm Phil Simmer, a reporter based at the Scottish Parliament. I'm Glenn Campbell, |
| 0:32.3 | also based at the Scottish Parliament. Right. Everybody just take a big, deep breath. We're going to be talking about chaos |
| 0:39.6 | and politics in a minute, but let's talk about chaos in terms of trying to get three BBC |
| 0:44.4 | journalists and a producer together. How many journalists does it take to make a radio studio work at the BBC? |
| 0:50.2 | For a podcast on a Monday. We've had an interesting 10 minutes. |
| 0:53.8 | I'll let you know when we actually get the studio to work. |
| 0:56.2 | We were sitting next to each other in the same studio and now we're not. |
| 1:00.1 | And we haven't fallen out. |
| 1:01.2 | We just can't make the buttons do. |
| 1:03.1 | That's a big yet on that. |
| 1:04.9 | We've had a bit of kind of musical studios for the past 20 minutes or so. |
| 1:09.1 | But we got there in the end and we're here. |
| 1:11.8 | On a Monday for a little extra podcast, wouldn't usually be popping up on your feeds on a Monday, |
| 1:16.6 | but we thought given the last time the political team all got together was Thursday, |
| 1:21.7 | and quite a lot has happened since then that we better get one out before even more happens. |
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