Nicola Sturgeon Announces Resignation
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Nicola Sturgeon has announced she is standing down after eight years as First Minister. The team react to the bombshell news which has sent shockwaves across Scottish politics. As the First Minister says she will stay on until a successor is chosen, she claims that the time is right for her to leave the top of Scottish politics. The team discuss why she's chosen to go now, what happens next, what it means for the independence movement, and who the potential candidates to her replace her might be, as well as reaction from opposition parties.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.7 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.7 | That brings you an inside look at the biggest stories |
| 0:18.3 | coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.4 | It is just coming up |
| 0:21.3 | to 10 to 8th in the evening on Wednesday the 15th of February. I'm Lucy White, a journalist |
| 0:27.1 | based in Glasgow and this evening I'm joined by. I'm Lindsay Buse, a journalist based in the Scottish |
| 0:33.2 | Parliament. I'm Phil Sim, a journalist also based in the Scottish Parliament. And I'm |
| 0:37.5 | Roger Hseman. Sondoul, a journalist based in Westminster. Hi, everyone. What a story we're |
| 0:43.2 | talking about today. This is one of the biggest stories in the history of Holyrood. I think that's fair |
| 0:49.9 | enough to say. Once again, we've broken the glass on the emergency recess podcast. I'm sure people have heard the news. |
| 0:56.1 | Should we tell them anyway? You did actually mention on the end of last week's episode. |
| 1:00.4 | We'll only be back if something really big happens. Well, lo and behold, sorry. Something really big happened. |
| 1:06.9 | It's always the case. We just need to accept the fact that this happens every single time. |
| 1:11.6 | So, she's resigned. |
| 1:13.4 | Nicholas Sturgeon, she stepped down. |
| 1:14.8 | Did anybody see that coming? |
| 1:16.7 | I didn't, but I did make a joke to my other half. |
| 1:20.8 | Oh, well, if she resigns today, and then she did. |
| 1:24.0 | So basically, you can see the future Raj Deep, so let's talk about that. |
| 1:30.6 | I really can't, because then I spent the next 20 minutes explaining to him why that wouldn't happen. |
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