Nicola Sturgeon on Gender, Starmer and Prince Harry
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
We travel to Edinburgh and Holyrood, the home of the Scottish Parliament, and sit down in a meeting room in the belly of the building housing Scottish power.
In walks one of the most formidable people on this sceptred isle. Nicola Sturgeon. She gamely gives us nearly an hour of her time.
She’s the great survivor of British politics. She’s on her fifth Tory Prime Minister. She’s bestrode Scottish politics for a decade. And in the last weeks she’s found herself central to the British political conversation once again. Lewis talks to Scotland’s First Minister about her controversial Gender Recognition Reform Bill, about the coming battle (or deal?) with Labour and Keir Starmer, about the strengths and weaknesses of the prime ministers who have come and gone and who she’s observed, and even a bit on Prince Harry.
And, after finding out pre-interview that she's a regular listener of the podcast(!), who does she prefer: Emily or Jon?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | It's Friday morning. I'm standing in the jewel that is Edinburgh. |
| 0:17.6 | And there was a time not so long ago when they said people used to say that this was a capital |
| 0:22.4 | in name only a capital without political power my word does it not feel like that anymore in |
| 0:29.3 | fact it's felt this week these past few weeks as if so much of the politics of Britain has been |
| 0:34.6 | flowing through and from these old sandstone streets. On the union, |
| 0:40.6 | on gender, on trans, Holly Rood, the Scottish Parliament and its relationship with Westminster has |
| 0:46.5 | been central, a relatively new fault line in British politics. And at the centre of all of that |
| 0:53.7 | has been one woman, the great survivor |
| 0:56.4 | of British politics, First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon. Now on Thursday night, she let the news |
| 1:01.7 | agents into her office in the Scottish Parliament and we had a long conversation, nearly an hour |
| 1:06.3 | actually. It was only supposed to be about 30 minutes, yeah. I was being cheeky, but also I think |
| 1:10.8 | she was enjoying it, having a longer conversation. |
| 1:14.1 | And if you love politics, and you may have a guess, I do, |
| 1:16.9 | there are few more cany, more astute observers of the political scene to talk to about it than she. |
| 1:24.2 | And also, it turns out, she's a newsagents fan. |
| 1:26.4 | So this is our conversation about the |
| 1:29.1 | prime minister she's known, the deep controversy over gender, trans and women's rights in which |
| 1:34.2 | she finds herself centre, and of course, her ultimate prize, how this old country might one day |
| 1:39.6 | stand alone. |
| 1:43.7 | The News Agents. |
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