Summary
Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon appears at the UK COVID-19 Inquiry. As the Scottish portion of the inquiry into the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic by UK Governments comes to close, this week we heard from ex-First Minister Sturgeon and former Deputy FM John Swinney, with the former denying that she presided over a culture of secrecy and that she politicised the pandemic. The team sits down to discuss what happened this week and the potential political impacts.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:10.2 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.6 | That brings you the biggest stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:19.2 | It's 14 minutes past nine on Thursday the 1st of |
| 0:22.0 | February. I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow. Georgia Roberts, normally based at Westminster, |
| 0:28.4 | based at Holyrood this week. Hi, Georgia. Hey, yes, based at Holyrood all week this week and a little bit of |
| 0:34.3 | last week and great to be here. Yeah, a busy time in Edinburgh with the UK COVID inquiry sitting there. |
| 0:40.3 | So what we thought we'd do, the reason that we're recording at quarter past nine, |
| 0:43.3 | rather than a bit later in the day, is because yesterday was the day that |
| 0:47.3 | Nicola Sturgeon, the former First Minister, was giving her day of evidence, obviously a lot of focus on that. |
| 0:53.3 | So we thought we would gather this morning. |
| 0:56.5 | We've got one more day to go, and that's the Scottish Secretary Alistair Jack today. |
| 1:02.1 | We'll cover that in next week's chap, Georgia. |
| 1:05.0 | You've been covering this and pretty grueling schedule, really, for you over the past week. |
| 1:10.6 | Yeah, because these inquiries, I mean, first of all, you're sat and you're listening to talk and detail for hours at a time. |
| 1:20.1 | But obviously, I'm in no way comparing myself to those people who are actually in the hot seat. |
| 1:25.4 | And I think there has been you know some admiration |
| 1:28.5 | you've got to say all politics aside for everybody who has been up at the inquiry sat in that |
| 1:34.7 | seat and faced this real grilling by the council because it isn't you know no mean fee and it |
| 1:42.5 | really does look like a difficult task. |
| 1:45.1 | Yeah, you're under a lot of pressure, I would imagine, for hours and hours every day. |
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