Summary
What's the shape of the SNP leadership race after the first hustings in Cumbernauld? The team talk about the first of the SNP leadership debates, what we learnt about the candidates' pitches to be the next First Minister of Scotland, and the row over media access. The Deposit Return Scheme is also causing headaches for the current First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and the minister responsible Lorna Slater, with many producers yet to sign up to the controversial recycling scheme despite the original deadline passing this week. Meanwhile in Westminster, Prime Minister Sunak announces a Northern Ireland Brexit deal has been reached with the EU, but what reaction will the so-called Windsor Agreement get from his party and the opposition? The team also discuss the correct nomenclature for soft drinks.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.5 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.9 | That brings you an inside look at the biggest stories coming out of Holly Roads and Westminster. |
| 0:20.0 | It's 11 minutes past two. On Thursday the 2nd |
| 0:22.6 | of March, I'm Lucy White, |
| 0:25.0 | a journalist based in Glasgow, and today |
| 0:26.8 | I'm joined by... I'm Phil Sim, a journalist |
| 0:28.6 | based at the Scottish Parliament. And I'm |
| 0:30.7 | Rajit Hsundu, a journalist based in Westminster. |
| 0:33.2 | Good afternoon. How are you |
| 0:34.9 | both today? Very |
| 0:36.7 | well. Full of energy. |
| 0:39.3 | Full of energy. It's been a busy, a busy few days again. I think particularly for you, Phil, you've just been saying how you've been running around doing lots of different things. |
| 0:48.3 | I mean, it's the thing where news keeps happening. It's very frustrating, isn't it, for people that work in news, that we've got big things going on like leadership campaigns, and it means there's hustings in the evenings |
| 0:57.8 | and all kinds of things you need to keep aware of. But then during the day, other things happen. |
| 1:01.8 | It's unbelievable, really. I always feel like during leadership campaigns, like news starts to |
| 1:09.1 | speed up, because you've got the leadership stuff |
| 1:12.6 | and then within that they're always announcing things about everything else that's going on. |
| 1:16.6 | So you're trying to cover the leadership and then you've got to cover all the policy as well |
| 1:19.6 | and it's like... |
| 1:20.6 | The world doesn't go and pause for it. |
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