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We're recording this about quarter past

11 on Wednesday the 17th of January. I'm Lucy

White. I'm in Glasgow today and right

beside me is David Wallace Lockhart. Hello. Hello!

This is our first interview episodes of the

year. We did a load of these last year so you can listen back in your feed now if you want to hear our chats with politicians from all the different parties. Lots more to come as well. But we're kicking off the year with the SMP MP Pete Wishart. Hi Pete. Hi there. How you guys? Good. How are you getting on? I'm not bad. It's rather cold in London, but I'm imagining it's a lot colder up in Glasgow.

It is very, very frosty.

You'll get no sympathy from us about how cold it may be in London.

I wasn't expecting any, but I'd always try my hand and see how we get on.

And it's not been a quiet start to the year for you guys in Westminster.

It most definitely hasn't. You know, I mean today, I know we're talking on the 17th. It's the

second day of the Rwandabal and, you know, I mean, we're only a couple of weeks into this parliament

and there could be massive problems for the government, the significant rebellions last night in the

Conservative ranks when it came to the series of amendments to the hope to table in order

for them to support the bill. So we've got the third reading this evening, so we're all interested

to see exactly what happens with that.

And it's usually at this point in the podcast, Pete, that we would start by, you know,

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