Interview: Meghan Gallacher MSP

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Deputy Leader of the Scottish Conservatives on her career, motherhood, and GRR. Lucy Whyte and Georgia Roberts sit down with Meghan Gallacher MSP, and discuss her beginnings in North Lanarkshire, how she developed conservative beliefs, and her rise to become deputy leader of the Scottish Conservative party. The team discuss Gender Recognition Reform and the late night vote last year, as well as what she thinks of the UK Government using a Section 35 order to veto the cross-party legislation. What does she think of the Conservatives prospects in the next election, and does she see herself as a future Scottish Tory leader?

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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 Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast
0:16.3	That brings you inside look at the biggest stories coming out of Holyrood and Westminster.
0:20.7	I'm Lucy White,
0:22.0	a journalist based in Glasgow. And Georgia is here too. Well, she's not physically in Glasgow,
0:26.6	but she's here with me on the line. Hi, Georgia. Hi, yeah. It's me coming from Westminster, as usual.
0:32.2	And we're also joined today by MSP and deputy leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Megan Gallagher.
0:37.8	Hi, Megan.
0:38.7	Good afternoon, both.
0:39.9	And you're in Edinburgh, so we've got all the cities covered that we usually cover.
0:43.4	In fact, we already know you on the podcast because I don't know if you remember this,
0:48.3	but you were all in an episode of Podlitical in 2019 when you were a councillor.
0:52.4	Do you have my memory of that?
0:54.1	I was, and that was during COVID restrictions.
0:57.6	That's right.
0:58.1	Yes, absolutely.
0:59.2	It was a different time then.
1:00.8	Yeah, so we had you on there
1:02.6	and it was reflecting on the independence referendum
1:05.7	and it had been five years, I think, until then.
1:08.8	It's been four years now since we last had you on.
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