Mackay Quits (ft. Chris Musson)
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Political Editor Chris Musson joins the team to talk about his scoop on Derek Mackay, as the Finance Secretary quits due to the allegations he messaged a 16 year old online.
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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 |
| 0:14.6 | Now this is BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:16.8 | It gives you a wee inside look at the biggest stories |
| 0:19.0 | Coming up, Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:21.4 | It's six minutes past one, and it's Thursday the 6th of February. |
| 0:24.9 | My name is Louise Robertson. I'm a journalist, and I'm based at BBC Scotland in Glasgow. |
| 0:29.3 | And with me today, I've got... |
| 0:31.1 | I'm Lindsay Bues at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Phil Sim, also at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:35.5 | Nick Herdy at Westminster. |
| 0:36.9 | And joining us today, we also have in Edinburgh, Chris Musson, Scottish political editor for the Scottish son. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome, Chris. |
| 0:43.9 | Hi, nice to be here. |
| 0:45.2 | Matt Cox is also producing in the box today. |
| 0:47.2 | Now Chris, the big story today is Derek Mackay, Scottish Finance Minister. |
| 0:51.6 | We got a tweet as well from Nick Ward saying, are we going to get an extended political special today so you guys can talk about all the drama? Well, we are and we've got Chris and the man who broke the story with us. The man with a scoop. Indeed. I'm just going to remind people who might not have heard the story. So Derek Mackay, he's resigned from his post this morning, ahead of the budget today, over allegations that you printed last night that he's been messaging |
| 1:14.5 | a 16-year-old boy online. Chris, how did you get onto this story? |
| 1:18.6 | We've been aware of this story just for a few days, literally since the weekend. And since then, |
| 1:24.5 | we've been working to verify it and to piece together the timeline and the transcript and work out exactly what has happened here. |
| 1:35.3 | Literally we were obviously working on it until deadline last night, right up to the wire. |
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