Interview: Patrick Harvie MSP
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Scottish Greens Co-Leader and Scottish Government minister sits down with Podlitical. Patrick Harvie talks about his early exposure to Green politics and his career so far, including why he sees compromise and finding "genuine common ground" is how democracy should work, his feelings about the Bute House Agreement with the SNP, his belief that the "moral panic" over transgender rights has become toxic in a way he "would not have believed was possible" previously, and how he's coming to terms with not being cast as Dr. Who.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.7 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast that brings you the biggest stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.1 | It's recess week so the |
| 0:21.3 | poddletical team is taking a bit of a well-earned rest. We recorded this podcast on Wednesday |
| 0:26.6 | the 7th of February. I'm David Wallace Lockhart, but it's not just me today because we have another |
| 0:31.4 | interview episode for you. Joining me is the man with one of the biggest job titles in Scottish |
| 0:36.2 | politics. It's the Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings, Active Travel and Tenants Rights, |
| 0:41.8 | who also happens to be the co-leader of the Scottish Green Party. |
| 0:45.2 | It's Patrick Harvey. |
| 0:46.3 | Hi, David. How are you? |
| 0:47.5 | Very well. Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:49.7 | A lot of people will be familiar with you as an MSP. |
| 0:53.0 | You've been in the Scottish Parliament for over 20 |
| 0:55.8 | years now. But what were you doing before that? When did you turn green? When did you realise |
| 1:00.5 | that was your politics? Well, I mean, the green influence comes from much earlier, even |
| 1:05.7 | when I was very wee. My mum was a green activist. I stood for election once or twice and you know back in those days the |
| 1:14.6 | the greens really were a kind of political experiment in the UK they'd started to become more |
| 1:21.6 | established in some other countries but they'd never managed to make a mark at all in the UK because of the first |
| 1:28.7 | past the post voting system. Even the European election in, I think it was 189, where they |
| 1:34.6 | had a big surge in green votes across the whole of the UK, came third but got no seats |
| 1:39.9 | elected to the European Parliament, because even that was still fast past the post. So, |
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