Power-Sharing Pals?
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The SNP and Scottish Greens agree to a power-sharing deal and form a Holyrood majority, but where can the parties compromise, and where can they not? BBC Scotland political editor Glenn Campbell joins the team to analyse the areas where the SNP-Green majority may agree or disagree - from climate goals and the Gender Recognition Act, to the upcoming test as the Scottish Parliament votes on vaccine passports.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.6 | Hi, you're listening to |
| 0:13.9 | Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:16.1 | that brings you an inside look at the big stories |
| 0:18.6 | coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:23.2 | It is 17 minutes past two on Thursday the 2nd of September. I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow, and today |
| 0:29.0 | I'm joined by. I'm Phil Sim, a reporter based at the Scottish Parliament. I'm Linda Bues, a political |
| 0:35.0 | correspondent also based at the Parliament. I'm Glenn Campbell, political editor, and, well, I'm kind of based at the Parliament as well, |
| 0:41.0 | but I'm speaking to you from elsewhere in Edinburgh today. |
| 0:43.6 | From just across the road from the Parliament. |
| 0:46.8 | So, and Phil and Lindsay, you're in a studio together today? |
| 0:50.3 | We are, yeah, for the first time in ages. |
| 0:54.1 | It's quite strange. This. What a shake-up. |
| 0:56.6 | This is how it used to be back in the day. |
| 0:59.7 | I've got the rubbish seat as well. |
| 1:03.0 | And I've got producer Matt actually sitting in the cubicle, and he's been at home for the past year and a half. |
| 1:08.0 | So this just feels very, very, very strange. But nice. |
| 1:11.6 | Look at this. We're back. Politics is back. It's all fitting together. Does politics ever go away |
| 1:16.5 | over the summer? I don't think it did. It didn't, did it? Because we had like Boris Johnson was up here, |
| 1:20.9 | Keir Starrmer was up here. We had Nicholas Sturgeon, you know, doing our briefings and so on. We haven't had a break from these people and I don't feel like I've had a summer at all. |
| 1:30.1 | Yeah, I kind of feel the same |
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