Summary
PM Sunak sees off a rebellion over his Rwanda Bill, and the Horizon scandal continues. Despite two senior resignations, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak managed to pass his bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda in the Commons despite threats of rebellion, but now the legislation passes to the Lords, with the PM urging them to back the bill in a press conference. What's going to happen next, and is the Rwanda bill the vote winner the Conservative Government hopes it will be? In Holyrood, opposition parties highlight the Horizon scandal and the sub-postmasters wrongly convicted in Scotland, as First Minister Humza Yousaf seeks UK wide legislation to overturn convictions - but does the UK Government agree?
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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 Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.6 | That brings you an inside look at the big stories |
| 0:18.5 | coming out of Holyroods and Westminster. It's four minutes past two |
| 0:23.4 | on Thursday the 18th of January. I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow. Today actually |
| 0:30.5 | based in my house just outside of Glasgow rather than in the studio. And today I'm joined by. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm David Wallace Lockhart, a political correspondent based |
| 0:39.2 | in the Scottish Parliament. And it's Georgia Roberts, Westminster correspondent based in Westminster. |
| 0:45.7 | How are you both doing? Good. Good. Yeah, it's one of those weeks in Westminster. I was just |
| 0:52.2 | saying to you, Lucy, before we started recording the way, |
| 0:54.9 | it seems like nothing, but also maybe everything has kind of happened in lots of ways. |
| 1:00.7 | So it's been a funny one. And I've actually been away for a lot of it. But because of that |
| 1:04.5 | sort of weird holding position, but also stuff around it, I feel like I can, I can really speak |
| 1:10.3 | to some stuff that's been cracking off. |
| 1:12.5 | It's been an interesting week. |
| 1:13.6 | You go away for two seconds, Georgia, |
| 1:16.1 | and all the deputy chairs of the Conservative Party start resigning. |
| 1:20.5 | Indeed, indeed. |
| 1:22.3 | I'm sure the team down there, Westminster, |
| 1:24.2 | are happy to have some fresh blood as well back, Georgia, |
| 1:26.6 | because I imagine |
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