Quack Like A Duck
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Internal tensions continue as Stephen Flynn takes over as SNP Westminster group leader, with senior figure Pete Wishart resigning from the front bench, saying he was "bemused" as to why Flynn had sought to replace Ian Blackford in the role. Ex-PM Gordon Brown also revealed a package of proposed political reforms, claiming the Labour plan would make the UK work for Scotland, but the SNP described the measures as "underwhelming". Political science Professor Ailsa Henderson of the University of Edinburgh joins the team to discuss the latest polling on independence after the Supreme Court verdict, as well as the reaction to the Brown report.
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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 |
| 0:15.8 | that brings you an inside look at the biggest stories |
| 0:18.3 | coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.5 | It's 10 past two on Thursday |
| 0:22.7 | the 8th of December and I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow. Today I'm joined by |
| 0:28.1 | I'm Rodsey Hsundu, a journalist based in Westminster. I'm Phil Sim, a journalist based at the |
| 0:32.9 | Scottish Parliament. And I'm Ailsa Henderson. I am a professor of political science at the University of Edinburgh. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, Elsa. How are you today? I'm well. Thanks. How are you? Yeah, very well. Thank you very much. |
| 0:45.7 | Thank you so much for coming on. Once again, just love that we put the person with the most impressive |
| 0:51.4 | title last. Overpowered once again. Sorry, Stephen Phil. |
| 0:55.7 | Blown out the water by that one. |
| 0:57.9 | Yeah, we've got Ailsa on today because we reckoned it was a pretty good week. |
| 1:00.9 | It was a week where of constitutional wrangling, shall we say, when is there a week that |
| 1:06.7 | doesn't involve that? |
| 1:07.9 | But it was particularly ramped up this week. |
| 1:10.4 | We're going to get into Gordon Brown in a bit |
| 1:14.2 | and this document that he's produced for the Labour Party |
| 1:18.2 | on the kind of future of Britain. |
| 1:20.7 | What was it called again, Phil? What was the name of it? |
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