Summary
Officials face PR problems with alleged racist comments and publicly funded "pornography". The Podlitical team sit down to discuss the week's news, including a row in Westminster into alleged comments made by Tory donor Frank Hester about MP Diane Abbott which politicians and public figures have called racist, with pressure mounting on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to return the £10m donation. In Holyrood, public arts body the National Lottery Open Fund faces criticism as Scottish culture secretary Angus Robertson says an arts project involving "hardcore" sex performances which received £100k should have "in no way" been given public funding.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:10.0 | Hi, you're listening to Political BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:16.2 | that brings you an inside look at the big stories |
| 0:18.5 | coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:21.1 | It's two minutes past two. |
| 0:22.8 | On Thursday the 14th of March, |
| 0:25.3 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow. |
| 0:27.9 | Today I'm joined by |
| 0:28.7 | David Wallace Lockhart, political correspondent, |
| 0:31.4 | and I'm in Hollywood today. |
| 0:32.9 | And Georgia Roberts, Westminster correspondent, |
| 0:35.4 | as usual in Westminster. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello, David and Georgia. |
| 0:38.8 | Hello. |
| 0:39.3 | How are doing? |
| 0:41.1 | We are going to focus in this week on a week of PR fails because looking across the week |
| 0:49.3 | since we last chatted, nobody's doing particularly well on that front at the moment. There's been the way that |
| 0:55.5 | Rishi Sunak's handled the alleged comments from the Tory donor Frank Hester that the MP Diana |
| 1:01.7 | Abbott made him want to hate all black women and that she should be shot. The speaker is under |
| 1:06.8 | a bit of pressure again, this time for not choosing Diana, but to speak during Prime Minister's questions. |
| 1:13.3 | And in Scotland, there's been the handling of the revelation that a public body had given a grant to an arts project involving real sex acts. |
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