Parents In Parliament
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Ahead of standing down from Holyrood, MSPs Aileen Campbell and Jenny Marra discuss if family life and political work can mix. Is it possible to balance raising children and a career on the campaign trail? Lucy and Rajdeep sit them down for a frank talk on the reasons they are choosing to leave frontline politics for now, as well as what they hope changes in the future to ease the difficulties of being a parent in Parliament.
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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 |
| 0:16.1 | That brings you an inside look at the big stories |
| 0:18.3 | coming out of Hollywoods and Westminster. |
| 0:20.4 | It's 14 minutes |
| 0:21.3 | past two on Wednesday the 3rd of February. I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in the Glasgow |
| 0:26.6 | Newsroom. And today I'm also joined by Rajdeep in London. Hello Rajdeep. Hi Lucy. How are you? |
| 0:33.3 | Good. Thank you. We are chatting on a Wednesday because this is a... |
| 0:38.3 | It feels weird, isn't it? |
| 0:39.1 | Yes, very strange. |
| 0:40.7 | A special episode of Political today. |
| 0:43.1 | We are joined by two guests. |
| 0:45.6 | It's Aileen Campbell of the SNP and Jenny Mara of Scottish Labour. |
| 0:50.0 | Hello to both of you. |
| 0:51.0 | Hi there. |
| 0:52.2 | We asked both of you on because neither of you are seeking re-election in May when we think the elections are going to be this year. |
| 1:01.8 | And both of you have mentioned your families as part of that. |
| 1:05.9 | And we thought that was quite interesting because Holyrood in particular when it's set up, |
| 1:09.7 | was set up to be a family-friendly parliament. |
| 1:13.1 | And I know there will be lots of different reasons why potentially you decided not to seek |
| 1:17.8 | re-election. But Jenny, was that a big part of your decision? Yes. Yes, I suppose it was. I mean, |
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