Summary
The Scottish Government announces it is dropping its 2030 net zero emissions target. The team discuss the political implications of the SNP & Scottish Greens government announcing it's 2030 net zero target is "out of reach", as well dropping its annual and interim targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, including if it will hit the parties in the polls, and if this represents a wider movement from UK parties away from green promises and policies. Also in Holyrood, Scotland's only gender care clinic that prescribes puberty blockers for under 18s has announced it's stopping prescriptions following a review by Dr. Hilary Cass, and in Westminster, PM Rishi Sunak's smoking ban for those born after January 1st 2009 has passed the first hurdle, could this be the legacy legislation he's looking for?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.9 | Hi, you're listening to Publicical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:16.5 | That brings you the biggest stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:21.1 | It is 3.42pm on Thursday, the 18th of April. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm Georgia Roberts, Westminster correspondent for BBC Scotland, based in Westminster, where else? |
| 0:32.1 | And today I'm joined by... |
| 0:34.3 | Hello, Georgia. It's Andrew Kerr here. |
| 0:36.5 | I'm one of the political correspondents based at Holyrood. |
| 0:39.3 | And I'm David Henderson, also a political correspondent in Holyrood. |
| 0:43.3 | Hi both, from afar. |
| 0:45.3 | Nice to have you. |
| 0:46.3 | So here in Westminster, every new day this week has been eventful for Rishi soon. |
| 0:52.3 | Aki started the week having to come to the Commons |
| 0:55.1 | to make a statement on events in the Middle East over the weekend. |
| 0:58.4 | Then he saw a sizable chunk of his own MPs, |
| 1:01.8 | basically rubbish his plans for a smoking ban by voting against it. |
| 1:06.2 | The Rwanda bill blocked again by the Lords. |
| 1:09.1 | And today the now former Conservative MP Monsies has been |
| 1:13.6 | suspended in quite a wild story about alleged misuse of campaign funds, which he denies, perhaps |
| 1:21.4 | another tricky by-election on the horizon for the Prime Minister. But all that aside, today, we're going to stick mainly to what's going on up there in |
| 1:31.5 | Holyrood with you guys because it's a big newsday. |
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