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Podlitical

Interview: Andrew Bowie MP

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6157 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Conservative MP and Minister for Nuclear & Networks sits down with Podlitical. Andrew Bowie speaks about moving away from the "toxic debate" around Brexit, and discusses his government's Rwanda asylum plans including why he thinks former Home Secretary Suella Braverman should "think about the consequences" of their words. Bowie reacts to the allegations that the Sellafield nuclear site was hacked by groups linked to foreign states, which the Office for Nuclear Regulation denies, and explains why he wants to see more nuclear energy in Scotland.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds

0:02.4

You're listening to BBC Scotland

0:09.5

Hello, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's politics podcast

0:16.1

that brings you an inside look at the latest goings on at Hollywood and Westminster.

0:20.3

It's just after 9 o'clock

0:21.4

on Tuesday the 5th of December and that means it's time for another one of our interview

0:26.4

episodes and to that end I am joined from our glamorous Westminster Broadcasting Cubbered by

0:32.4

Georgia Roberts, Westminster correspondent for BBC Scotland, so glamorous where where I have next to me, Andrew Bowie.

0:39.7

Yes, hi.

0:40.5

And you're, of course, as well, Andrew Minister for New York.

0:43.7

Yeah, I'm a member of parliament for West Aberdeen Shrenk and Minister for Nuclear and Networks in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, which is a bit of a mouthful.

0:52.6

Yeah, well done. It's early in the morning, so you can do that quite smoothly.

0:55.6

And this episode is brought to you in association with the Aberdeenshire Mafia,

0:59.2

because I should disclose at this stage that Andrew and I both graduated from Aberdeenshire's finest educational establishment

1:06.5

simultaneously in Burruri Academy back in the day.

1:09.3

But I was thinking that we could be sitting here with you as Prime Minister and me as political editor of the BBC.

1:14.3

And we would still be overlooked in Inverroory because the Aberdeen football manager is also an alumni of Inverroar Academy.

1:22.3

We're far down the list, Phil.

1:23.9

We're never going to beat Barry.

1:25.2

Absolutely not.

1:26.0

We're far down the list of notable people to graduate from that great education establishment. But yes, so since

1:33.6

those days, obviously you went off not into football management, sadly, but you went, you

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