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Hi, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast that gives you an inside look at the biggest stories coming out of Holyroots and Westminster.

It's five past one on Thursday, the 27th of September. I'm Lucy White, a journalist

based in the Glasgow Newsroom. And I'm joined by. I'm Annie McGuire and I do social media in politics.

I'm Phil Sim. I'm a report at the Scottish Parliament. I'm Nick Hurley and I work in Westminster.

And Miles Bonner is our producer behind the glass. He's fact-checking and keeping us right.

And particularly today, making sure that we don't over-record because we have lots and lots that we want to talk about.

This week we'll be discussing how to put the party into conference season.

What, listen, I quite like that.

How to put the party into conference season? What politicians do well on social media.

And lots of you have actually been getting in touch for are Ask Us Anything Slot.

So we'll try to answer some of those at the end of the recording.

So I think we have to start off with Nick talking about conferences

because you are just back in Westminster after being stuck on a train on the way back from the Labour Party conference.

I'm so tired as well. Like conference season is exhausting.

Oh, poor you.

And we had, so everybody's coming back to London from Liverpool last night.

And all the trains were down because there was a signalling problem somewhere outside London.

So it was anarchy. Pretty much the whole of the lobby,

so the press pack at Westminster,

and half the shadow cabinet trying to get back to London.

And the trains were packed.

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