Ian Blackford on Independence, integrity, and anti-English sentiment

Chopper's Politics

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Brexit, Political, News, Uk, Coronavirus, Politics, Parliament

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🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In a Chopper's Politics podcast first, Ian Blackford, the SNP leader of Westminster, joins Christopher Hope as his favourite table in the Red Lion pub. While Britain is distracted by BYOB boozy parties, Ian and Chris get stuck into one of the big political questions of the next few years: will we soon see an Independent Scotland. Plus Ian reveals what it's really like having to work with a Tory government, claims Scotland will keep the pound in the event they leave the union, and makes it clear that he will not stand for anti-Englishness in the SNP.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Choper's politics.
0:04.0	And the sematory MPs, they accuse the SMP of an anti-English sentiment, don't they?
0:09.0	And that visibly annoy you, doesn't it, when they say it to you in the House?
0:12.0	I would say it's more irritating
0:13.6	than anything else and I would never permit any existence of anti-English
0:19.7	sentiment of any way shape or form. I'm Christopher Hope, chopper to my pals, the telegraph's associate editor, and this is
0:28.4	chopper's politics.
0:30.9	Now while Westminster's weighing up whether a Troy leadership election is looming,
0:35.0	north of the border there's a murmurings of another huge political event,
0:40.0	maybe as soon as late next year.
0:43.0	A possible second referendum on Scottish independence.
0:47.0	So with that in mind, I'm joined today by the Westminster leader of the SMP,
0:52.0	Ian Blackford, at my favorite table at the Red Line
0:55.3	pub here in the heart of Westminster. And so without further ado on today's
1:00.9	podcast menu, Independence, what it's really like working with a Tory
1:07.0	government if you're an SMP-MP leader, Tory claims of anti-English sentiment amongst nationalists, and of course,
1:15.0	bring your own booze work parties.
1:19.0	Ian Blackford, welcome to chopper politics.
1:22.0	Thank you for having me on.
1:23.0	It's a pleasure to be with you.
1:24.0	And this is, I have to say, slightly unusual surroundings for a podcast.
1:28.0	Well, not if you listen to this podcast enough.
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