Salmondites v Sturgeonites: The future of Scotland
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The Times
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🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
A Holyrood committee investigating the Scottish government's handling of complaints against Alex Salmond has continued to make headlines. But what does it mean for the future of the SNP and Scottish Independence?
Guest:
Kieran Andrews, The Times' Scottish political editor.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips used: Scottish Parliament, BBC, 5 News, Telegraph, Guardian, The Nine (BBC Scotland).
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| 0:00.0 | Today I want to give the nation advance notice that the coming days are likely to see some hard but necessary decisions. |
| 0:11.0 | Nicholas Sturgeon is riding high in the opinion polls, despite some trying |
| 0:15.9 | political circumstances. If we want to avoid another full-scale lockdown, which all of us |
| 0:21.7 | do, doing nothing almost certainly isn't an option. |
| 0:26.0 | But bubbling away in the background of her leadership is a Scottish political story of a very different kind. |
| 0:35.0 | There was a time he was the most powerful politician in Scotland, |
| 0:38.0 | but for the last two weeks it's been a jury in control of his future and now they've cleared Alex Hammond of sexual |
| 0:45.2 | assault charges. Scotland's top civil servant, Leslie Evans, is expected to be the first |
| 0:49.7 | witness to give evidence to a special committee of MSP. |
| 0:52.4 | Scotland's former first minister, Alex Samm. to give evidence to a special committee of MSP's. |
| 0:52.5 | Scotland's former first minister, Alex Sammond, |
| 0:55.8 | has threatened to drop a political bombshell on Hollywood |
| 0:59.5 | that could have a lasting impact on the Scottish dream |
| 1:02.4 | of independence. You're listening to stories of |
| 1:05.5 | our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. I'm Manveen Rana. Today, |
| 1:11.7 | Samundites versus Sturgenites, the future of Scotland. It was absolutely extraordinary. |
| 1:25.0 | Curran Andrews is the Scottish political editor of the Times. |
| 1:31.0 | And I say that as somebody's covered quite a lot of extraordinary moments in Scottish politics |
| 1:36.0 | in the last five or six years, but this was quite something. |
| 1:40.0 | Cast your minds back to the very beginning of 2019, before coronavirus hijacked our lives. |
| 1:47.0 | Theresa May was still Prime Minister. |
| 1:50.0 | The former First Minister of Scotland, Alex Hammond, hadn't yet faced criminal charges, |
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