Making Deals, Making Allegations
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In Westminster, Ex-Chief Advisor Dominic Cummings makes bombshell claims, and in Holyrood deals are weighed. Phil and Nick are joined by BBC Scotland political editor Glenn Campbell and BBC News political correspondent Alex Forsyth to discuss the allegations levelled against the UK Government by the Prime Ministers' former chief advisor, who alleged that "tens of thousands of people died, who didn't need to die" during the Coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile in Holyrood, the SNP and the Scottish Greens are in talks about a formal deal, but what impact might this potential "co-operation agreement" have on the political landscape of Scotland?
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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 that brings you an inside look |
| 0:17.0 | at the biggest stories coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:19.9 | It is 14 minutes past two on Thursday the 27th of May. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm Phil Sim, a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament, and today I'm joined by... |
| 0:28.3 | I'm Nick Erdley, a political correspondent in London. |
| 0:31.6 | Glenn Campbell, political editor in Edinburgh today. |
| 0:34.3 | And Alex Falsight covering all things political outside of London. Hello Alex, |
| 0:38.6 | welcome to the podcast. Pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me. Hey Alex. Actually, Alex and I used |
| 0:44.1 | to see each other every day, but we don't just now. So this feels like a nice, a nice chat. |
| 0:49.5 | It is a nice chance to say hello. It is, Nick. You've been all over the place, as I have I, but it is nice to catch up down the line, as it were. |
| 0:57.9 | Is this your podolitical debut, Alex? |
| 1:01.5 | Yeah, and I'm very excited to be here, actually. And it's not normally, Phil that's in the chair. |
| 1:07.0 | It's not his debut in the chair, but this does feel like a bit of a revolutionary moment, though, Phil, right? |
| 1:13.9 | The Iron Fist will be in control from here on. |
| 1:17.4 | You in particular, Campbell, should be looking out. |
| 1:21.7 | To be honest, like, as of maybe Tuesday this week, to be candid with listeners, |
| 1:25.0 | I wasn't entirely sure what we were going to do a podcast about today. |
| 1:31.4 | But we had a big Wednesday in politics yesterday, didn't we, in London and Edinburgh. |
| 1:39.1 | We had Dominic Cummings, the Prime Minister's former Chief Advisor, going to town on the UK government's initial response to the coronavirus pandemic in these seven hours of evidence about Westminster Committee. |
| 1:42.7 | And then at Holyrood, we had the revelation |
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