Interview Special: Ruth Davidson MSP

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News, Politics, News & Politics

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🗓️ 2 October 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this special podcast Matt Chorley interviews Ruth Davidson MSP in front of a packed fringe event at the Conservative party conference in Manchester. Davidson speaks on a variety of issues including, firing Boris Johnson, not wanting a second Brexit referendum, parking her tanks on Alex Salmond's lawn, how the party should fight Corbyn and whether she will ever stand for the Tory leadership.In the second part of the podcast the leader of the Scottish Conservatives takes questions from the floor, explaining why she's a "Majorite", answering whether she's the female Boris Johnson and outlining why the party has to speak people 18-25 "not as if they're a separate species". **NB due to circumstances beyond our control the sound quality varies in this podcast**

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0:00.0	Just imagine what your best Christmas ever would sound like.
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0:15.5	what happy Christmas why do now you have the best Christmas ever this Christmas it could be you. The National Lottery. Rules and procedures apply. Players must be
0:28.3	18 or over. Hello, welcome to this very special Times Sunday Times Red Box, Fringe event here at the
0:40.7	Kerta Party Conference.
0:41.7	Delighted to be joined by Ruth Davidson, the leader
0:44.6	of the Scottish Conservative Party.
0:46.3	The easiest round of applause ever.
0:55.0	I'm delighted to have so many of you here.
0:58.0	We are recording today's event for a podcast which will be available, hopefully by the end of the day.
1:03.2	You can download that from iTunes and all the other usual places.
1:07.3	And we couldn't really have written it much bigger.
1:09.9	But if you aren't already signed up to my morning email briefing, Red Box, then do sign up at the Times
1:14.4	dot code at UK slash Red Box. And you'll get a free round up of all the politics in the Times
1:19.2	and elsewhere in Westminster in the inbox every morning.
1:23.1	That's the plug over with.
1:26.4	So, uh, can I just say, before we start that, can I just say I love Matt's optimism
1:29.9	that you're giving up an hour to come and sit here in person and he wants you to then
1:33.5	also download the post- Podcast later. In terms of division of labor I'm not sure
1:38.3	that that one's going to be a winner. Because what you're going to say is going to
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