Interview: Pam Duncan-Glancy MSP
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The Scottish Labour MSP on making Scotland accessible, working for the NHS, and more. MSP for the Glasgow Region, Pam Duncan-Glancy talks to Podlitical about her first "political moment" while in school, her mission to make Scotland a more accessible place for those with disabilities, and her election as the first permanent wheelchair user in Holyrood. Duncan-Glancy shares her thoughts on the new Scottish hate crime legislation, Israel/Gaza, and how she feels Labour is "grown up" enough to have disagreements inside the party and between the Scottish and UK Labour parties.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.4 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland podcast |
| 0:16.1 | That brings you an inside look at the big stories |
| 0:18.6 | coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:21.1 | It is 20 to 2 on Tuesday the 16th of April. |
| 0:25.5 | I'm Lucy White. We're back from recess and we're kicking it off with another one of our interview episodes. |
| 0:31.7 | We did put out two last week so you can listen back to those on your feeds, one with Scottish Green, the MSP Ross Greer and one with the STUC General Secretary Ross Foyer but today |
| 0:42.8 | joining us back from recess two is Pam Duncan Glancy who's a Scottish Labour MSP for the |
| 0:48.7 | Glasgow region hi Pam hello you were just telling me there before we started recording you've had |
| 0:53.9 | a bit of a stressful start back after recess. |
| 0:57.1 | Oh, it's been busy and hectic as always, yeah, between waiting on trains. |
| 1:02.5 | I haven't missed three trains this morning because of a delay waiting for a taxi to get the train station. |
| 1:07.3 | And then the lift at Waverly was broken. |
| 1:09.0 | So, yeah, started my day a little bit behind schedule. |
| 1:12.8 | But we've caught up now. Okay, that's good and hopefully things get better from here on. |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah. We start these usually by asking people how they got into politics. How did you start off in |
| 1:25.9 | politics? So it kind of goes back quite, quite far. I, the first |
| 1:31.8 | sort of political moment I can very specifically remember was when my modern studies teacher |
| 1:36.3 | asked me in six years whether I believed in positive action. And at the time I said to him, oh no, |
| 1:41.5 | you know, as a young disabled working class woman, I want my job on merit, |
| 1:44.9 | and that, you know, that's what I believed. And I went home and my mum said to me, how is school? |
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