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The New Statement.

Hi, I'm Anouche. I'm Rachel. And I'm Chris.

And this is the New Statements Politics Podcast. In this episode we'll be discussing the SMP conference

which took place in Aberdeen earlier this week. What this has told us about the next steps

for Hamza Yusuf and the future of the party.

Hello, I'm Anouche Kelly and Britain Editor of the New Statement and host of this podcast

and joining me in the studio I have Rachel Weymouth, Deputy Political Editor and down the line

Chris Deerin, Scotland Editor. So Chris, please just tell us what the mood was like at party conference. What were you picking up?

It was an interesting conference for a number of reasons really. It was the first since Nicholas Sturgeon

stood down as first minister. It was also really the first since the dip in the SMP's fortunes.

And I guess both of those things along with all the other troubles the SMP have had over the past year

were pretty evident and mood around the place. So certainly for the last decade of the SMP conference has been a bit of a busy place.

There's been a lot of business activity on the stalls.

There were lobbyists around many, many members, thousands of people in attendance obviously on the view that independence was just around the corner.

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