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🗓️ 7 February 2023
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Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon is under pressure following the row over her gender reforms and a drop in the polls.
But is she in serious trouble, or will the dominant force in Scottish politics continue to confound her critics?
Matt hears from former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, the SNP's Emma Roddick, politics professor John Curtice and Times columnist Alex Massie.
Plus Finkelvitch: Daniel Finkelstein and David Aaronovitch are back to discuss Rishi Sunak's cabinet reshuffle, Liz Truss's lack of apology and their collection of political badges.
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0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Webbox podcast. I'm Matt Chauley bringing you the best bits from my |
0:06.7 | Times Radio show. You can have some Monday to Friday, 10 till 1 on Times Radio on your |
0:10.5 | DAB Radio on your Smart Speaker and on the Times Radio app. Right, coming up on today's |
0:16.8 | episode, well, there's lots of reachuffle news. I was really excited. We're bringing you |
0:21.4 | all of that. We'll discuss that with Finkelvitch in a moment. After that, we are taking a look |
0:25.7 | at what's happening north of the border. Has Nicola Sturgeon SM-Picked? Some feeling that she |
0:32.8 | got a bit testy at press conference this week. The polls seem to be moving, sliding against |
0:38.4 | her disagreement in SM-P ranks. We'll unpack all of that. That's our big thing. But first, |
0:44.4 | on a Tuesday, we kick off with this. Meet the Cerberus of Colomists, |
0:52.0 | the Janus of Journalism, and the ultimate political portmanteau of opinion. |
1:03.0 | Finkelvitch with Daniel Finkelstein and David Aronovich on Times Radio. |
1:08.9 | Right, Jets. I suppose we need to do this. Stay ahead of the game with instant inside |
1:14.9 | an knowledge and erudite opinions. What's a way to do it? Match all these Westminster transfer |
1:20.6 | deadline day on Times Radio. Get in. Instant political reaction and analysis. It's just like being |
1:28.3 | on match of the day, isn't it? So, as things stand with the reshuffle, we are told that Greg |
1:35.3 | Hans is going to be the chairman of the Conservative Party, replacing the Deem Sir Harvey. |
1:38.8 | And then I think it's three different government departments all being chopped up. So, |
1:42.4 | Grant Shats is expected to be the new energy security secretary. |
1:46.1 | Camille Badernot becomes business and trade secretary, so she keeps trading gains business. |
1:51.4 | There's a science and technology job floating around, which we might say, might go to George Freeman. |
1:58.4 | But no actual sacking, so it's just people losing bits and gaining bits. Danny, are you excited |
2:04.5 | by this? Well, look, my view of cabinet reshuffles, they don't make very much difference to anything, |
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