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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Scots. I'm James Hale and I'm joined today by Katie Bals and Lucy Dunn.

Now Lucy, Holmes and Yusuf is doing one of those much fabled resets. Tell us how it's going up in Scotland.

So, Hums are had his big chance to promote one personal brand of politics this week and I think

it's safe to say it's fallen quite flat and there's a lot of frustration about how Hums are

trying to appeal to everyone and as a result, hasn't really left anyone feeling very happy at all.

We've got frustration from higher paid workers that Hums are still pushing this sort of progressive

tax plans and then frustration from poverty campaigners and charities. He's not gone too far when

it comes to his anti-poverty message and then everything else kind of seems to be rehashing

Nicolas Sturgeon's own policies and sort of trying to cover up the facts that there's been a lot

of delays and particularly with stuff like this universal free school meals and on transport as well.

Now Katie, of course, this comes at a time when Yusuf is facing quite an interesting

electoral challenge from Labour and of course we can see the extent of that in the upcoming

election. Yes, there's lots of polls at the moment suggesting that in an election Scottish Labour

would win as many seats as an S&P, some suggesting potentially even more, which is huge if you think

about recent general elections and how well the S&P have done. It would really feel as though it is

a shaking up at the political landscape and we talked about in this podcast previously but

what Kirsta Manidz to win a majority massively helped if you do have that big Scottish Labour

recovery and the first test of that will get is in the Ravaglanan Hamilton by-election,

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