Prime Minister in Peril?
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Prime Minister Johnson survived a no-confidence vote, but is his position really secure? With by-elections looming, the team discuss the mood inside the Conservative Party, the PM's "benefits to bricks" pledge, and what happens next for Boris Johnson as his premiership appears to sit on shaky ground. How are opposition parties capitalising on the challenges facing the Tories, and will we soon hear more on a second Independence referendum from the SNP?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.3 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.7 | that brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.2 | It's 12 minutes past two |
| 0:21.5 | on Thursday the 9th of June. I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow and today I'm joined |
| 0:27.2 | by. I'm Raj Theipsundu, a journalist based in Westminster. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm Phil Sim, a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:33.4 | And we're all currently waiting for another journalist who is presently based in Blackpool, |
| 0:39.8 | one Nick Erdley. |
| 0:40.9 | We're watching him on the telly right now. |
| 0:43.2 | We're meant to start recording at 2 o'clock. |
| 0:45.4 | But he has been watching the Prime Minister's speech, which has overrun slightly, hasn't it? |
| 0:51.5 | So we're going to forgive him for that, and he's going to hopefully join us at some |
| 0:56.0 | point on the podcast. It looks you know where he is. |
| 0:58.2 | We can keep track of his movements by watching him live |
| 1:00.0 | on the television. We can seem exactly a nice |
| 1:01.8 | kind of view of Blackpool Tower |
| 1:04.1 | behind him right now at the moment. |
| 1:05.8 | It looks like he's at the beach. Yeah, I think |
| 1:07.7 | it's very picturesque, isn't it? |
| 1:10.5 | This is great for our audio listeners hearing |
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