Summary
The team talk rent controls, assisted dying, and the FM's first year in office. As Holyrood takes a break for recess, the Podlitical team look at some of the big bills moving through Scottish Parliament and causing some controversy, including the Housing Bill which could see rent controls introduced in areas of Scotland, the introduction of the Assisted Dying Bill which hopes to legalise medically assisted dying for people with terminal illnesses, and new hate crime laws which some claim will stifle free speech and increase pressure on the police. The team also discusses the first year of First Minister Humza Yousaf's premiership, and analyse some of the big events of the last 12 months.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.8 | Hello, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.8 | that brings you the biggest stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:19.5 | It is 20 past two on Thursday the 28th of March. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm Phil Sim, a political correspondent based at Holyrood. And today I am joined by David Wallace Locker, |
| 0:28.8 | another political correspondent based at Hollywood. And Regina Hayes, a senior journalist based |
| 0:33.6 | in Glasgow. Well, this is weird. I'm here. Haven't been around for a few months. |
| 0:38.6 | People may have noticed. |
| 0:40.0 | But in the absence of our regular host, Lucy White, today, I have stepped back into |
| 0:43.6 | the breach. |
| 0:45.3 | And yeah, we've got, as a grizzled veteran returns, we've got a new voice in the podcast |
| 0:49.8 | as well. |
| 0:50.2 | Welcome, Georgina. |
| 0:51.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:51.9 | I'm excited to be here. And yeah, there's lots and lots for me |
| 0:55.9 | to catch up on it feels like I've been off on parent leave for the last three months and I'm going |
| 0:59.7 | to go back to that quite soon. But I thought I'd come back in and try to catch up on everything |
| 1:04.4 | that's going on in politics. But I wanted to start with something that's actually new this |
| 1:09.4 | week, not something from the last few months, |
| 1:11.6 | which is the housing bill. And this is something the government's been kind of wrestling with. |
| 1:16.6 | We've seen, you know, emergency legislation for rent controls and an eviction ban after the |
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