Interview: David Linden MP

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The SNP MP for Glasgow East on moving the dial on Scottish independence and more. The team quiz David Linden MP on the SNP's independence plans, why he thinks the conversation around process has been overplayed, and what he makes of the SNP's current strategy. The team ask him about Lisa Cameron's defection to the Conservatives, and why he thinks the council tax freeze announcement at the SNP conference was a "masterstroke".

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.4	You're listening to BBC Scotland
0:09.6	Hi, you're listening to
0:14.0	Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast
0:15.9	that brings you an inside look at the big stories
0:18.1	coming out of Holyrood and Westminster.
0:20.5	We're recording this episode on Wednesday
0:22.2	the 25th of October. I'm Lucy White, a journalist who is
0:26.3	normally based in Glasgow and across from me is Phil
0:29.3	a journalist who's normally based in Edinburgh.
0:32.2	I am. But today, neither of us based where we're normally based.
0:35.8	We are in London and also sitting between us is the
0:40.5	SNP MP David London hello thanks very much for joining us face to face in the studio um you have
0:48.1	actually been on the podcast before do you remember it I do I was on with Megan Gallic on the
0:52.7	Independence referendum anniversary that That's right.
0:55.0	Five years it had been since then and that was now, we did the maths for this earlier on,
1:00.0	four years ago now.
1:01.0	It shouldn't be hard maths, really.
1:03.0	No, I know, but at this side of the day, yeah.
1:05.0	So we were there talking about independence four years ago.
1:10.0	We are, what, a week on from when there should have
1:12.4	been another independence referendum if the plan had gone ahead. What's different now than the last
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