Summary
Nicola Sturgeon faces a fiery final FMQs, and Boris Johnson is grilled by MPs. The team discuss the final FMQs for the First Minister, the 'robust' questioning she faced by opposition parties, and her last statement to Scottish Parliament as First Minister. In Westminster, Boris Johnson faced some robust questioning too, as MPs on the Commons privileges committee hear evidence to decide if the former Prime Minister did deliberately mislead Parliament over the Partygate scandal. What does this week tell us about political legacy, and how it can be built or broken?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.8 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:16.0 | That brings you an inside look at the biggest stories |
| 0:18.1 | coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.2 | It is 10 past 2. On Thursday the |
| 0:22.3 | 23rd of March, I'm Lucy White, |
| 0:25.0 | a journalist based in Glasgow, and today I'm joined by... |
| 0:28.2 | I'm Raj Sheeps and Lou, a journalist based in Westminster. |
| 0:31.3 | Well now I'm Phil Sim, a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:34.3 | Today is a day of sort of short-term goodbyes for many reasons. We've just had the |
| 0:41.2 | last First Minister's questions from Nicholas Sturgeon. But more importantly than that, |
| 0:48.4 | Rajdeep, this is your last pod-litical for a while. It is, yes. I'm off on maternity leave for a slightly different job spec. |
| 0:58.2 | Slightly different. Slightly different job. Congratulations. Trading in the whining children of |
| 1:04.7 | parliament for a real whining child. Oh, they're not all winy. We are going to miss you hugely while you're away. |
| 1:13.6 | And thank you. |
| 1:14.1 | This is your, we were just talking before we started recording. |
| 1:16.5 | This is your proper last, last day of work. |
| 1:19.0 | So thank you for spending it chatting to Phil and I. |
| 1:22.4 | We feel very honoured. |
| 1:23.1 | Oh, how could I not? |
| 1:24.1 | I'm going to be listening from home when like baby is driving me mental. |
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