Interview: Douglas Ross MSP

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Scottish Conservatives leader on the oil industry, energy windfall tax, and more. Off the back of the Scottish Conservative Party conference, MP and MSP Douglas Ross joins the Podlitical team on the eve of UK Conservative chancellor Jeremy Hunt's budget, and explains why he's against a windfall tax on energy company profits being extended, and why he thinks backing the oil industry makes economic sense, as the Tories face what he calls a "challenging electoral map" at the next general election. Ross also talks through his early work as a farmer, how he became a referee, and why he's concerned about his family's security as a public figure.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.4	You're listening to BBC Scotland
0:09.9	Hello, you're listening to
0:14.4	Polydical BBC Scotland podcast
0:16.4	that brings you the biggest stories coming out of Holyrood and Westminster.
0:20.3	We're recording this
0:21.0	on Tuesday the 5th, in fact, is 10.35 a.m. I'm Lucy White. This is another one of our interview
0:28.5	episodes coming back. You can scroll back on your feeds and have a look at some of the other ones
0:33.7	we've done with politicians from across the different parties.
0:37.9	Today, fresh from his parties conference in Aberdeen, we're speaking to the leader of the Scottish
0:42.8	Conservatives, Douglas Ross.
0:44.8	Hello there.
0:45.6	Good morning, Lucy. How are you?
0:46.6	Morning, I'm good, thank you, and I hope you're well too.
0:48.7	I am.
0:49.0	You're speaking to me from Westminster today.
0:52.0	I'm in Glasgow. So thank you for taking the time out of what I know will be a very, very busy week to have a chat with us.
0:58.5	No problem.
0:59.1	We usually start these off by asking people how it is that they actually got into politics in the first place.
1:07.0	And your background might not be typical for what somebody might think a Scottish Conservative leader would be.
1:13.6	Can you just tell us a bit about that?
1:15.4	Yeah. I mean, I've born and brought up in Murray.
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