Summary
The team discuss the SNP leadership debate and PM Sunak's small boats bill. During the televised SNP debate on Tuesday, the barbs became personal between the three candidates vying to be the next First Minister, as Kate Forbes launched an attack on Humza Yousaf's record in government, while the health secretary returned pointed comments about protecting equal rights, and Ash Regan wrote off her colleagues as "wishy washy" on independence. The team talk about the pitfalls of personal attacks, and why it might make governing more difficult for whoever the winner is. In Westminster, the Prime Minister and opposition leader Keir Starmer trade blows over the Conservative's new migrant plans, where anyone entering the UK illegally would be removed within 28 days and blocked from returning.
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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 |
| 0:13.9 | Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.9 | that brings you an inside look at the biggest stories |
| 0:18.1 | coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.3 | It's four minutes past two |
| 0:21.8 | on Thursday the 9th of March. I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow. Today I'm joined by |
| 0:27.8 | Hi, I'm Rod Sheep Sandhu, a journalist based in Westminster. Hello, I didn't realize we're doing |
| 0:32.8 | hello before our names now, but I'm, hello, I'm Phil, I'm 35, I'm a journalist based in the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:41.2 | It's like the beginning of... |
| 0:42.2 | Got a bit blind date. |
| 0:44.1 | I was going to say University Challenge, you know, we're like, oh, University Challenge, yeah, picture. |
| 0:48.7 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:50.8 | I like it. |
| 0:52.1 | I like the new opening. |
| 0:53.6 | That was full of enthusiasm. Right. Strong start. |
| 0:57.8 | Yeah, strong start, everyone. Thanks for listening. We'll be back to your feeds next week. |
| 1:01.6 | Bye. |
| 1:02.7 | So let's talk about the SNP leadership debates and hustings. And there just continues to be lots and lots to talk about. I guess that's |
| 1:14.2 | not a surprise. But this week in particular, we had our first TV debates and compared to the |
| 1:20.9 | hustings that we'd seen so far, it was a totally different flavour, wasn't it, Phil? |
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