Interview: Amy Callaghan MP
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The SNP MP on how her health issues colour her work, and why Westminster can be "toxic". After suffering a brain haemorrhage during the Covid pandemic in 2020, Amy Callaghan returned to Parliament in 2021, and became the SNP's Westminster health spokesperson. Phil Sim sits down with the MP and talks about the chaotic few years in both her personal and political life, the challenges of being a young woman in Parliament, sitting in Scotland's most marginal seat, and how she feels about *that* Nicola Sturgeon GIF.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.8 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.5 | that brings you an inside look at the big stories coming of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:19.8 | We're recording this at 20 past |
| 0:21.7 | 11 on Wednesday the 27th of September. I'm Phil Sim, a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament, |
| 0:27.5 | and this is our weekly interview episode you'll have noticed we've started doing in your feed. |
| 0:33.1 | Co-host Lucy White is off on our holidays this week, so it's just me,, although not really because I am joined in the studio in Edinburgh by |
| 0:40.3 | Amy Callahan, SMPMP for Easton Bartonshire and the SMP's health spokesperson at Westminster. |
| 0:45.3 | And Amy you've given away by knowing how to do the intro that this is not your first time on Podlitical. |
| 0:50.3 | It's certainly not my first time, although it does feel like a lifetime ago that I was on it, Phil. It was. That was January 2020 right after you'd been elected. |
| 0:58.0 | Yep, that one-of-win election, yep. |
| 1:00.0 | Just one or two things have happened in politics. |
| 1:02.0 | Oh, just a few small things. I listened back to it as well, and it does feel that we were somewhat naive in thinking there would have been a lot of time in 2020 to do all these different things. |
| 1:13.9 | It was the week we left the European Union that I... |
| 1:16.3 | Well, I think we were thinking, oh, we just had Theresa May |
| 1:18.1 | with just had Brexit. |
| 1:19.1 | Things are going to have to calm down now, right? |
| 1:20.7 | Government's got a big majority. |
| 1:21.7 | And then the world went on fire. |
| 1:23.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:23.7 | So I mean, I guess we're going to come to the three prime ministers, two monarchs, two first ministers, |
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