Scot Free? Nicola Sturgeon's Final Gamble

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🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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As Nicola Sturgeon’s fight for indyref2 continues, will she get the vote she wants or is she running out of road? What will Boris Johnson’s departure mean for Scotland’s First Minister? Gavin Esler unpacks these issues with journalist Iain Macwhirter, author of Disunited Kingdom: How Westminster Won a Referendum But Lost Scotland. “Nicola Sturgeon has real problems in the party.” “Sturgeon is going to turn the next election into a de-facto referendum.” “Boris Johnson is the one Englishman you are allowed to hate, he’s extremely unpopular in Scotland - but of course he is gone now, and this poses a problem for the SNP.” “Boris Johnson has been the SNP’s greatest recruiting sergeant.” “Sturgeon is using this theatre of the courts to create more controversy in the run up to the next general election.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Gavin Esler. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic, Alex Rees. Assistant Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio production by Jade Bailey. The Bunker is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:12.1	Ores Johnson may be heading for the dustbin of history but while we're all focused on the
1:16.7	endless Conservative Party psychodrama, should we also note that the Johnson legacy could
1:21.8	include helping the Union of the United Kingdom to break up.
1:26.0	That at least was the view of former Conservative Chancellor George Osborne, who wrote that
1:30.3	Johnson could become the worst Prime Minister in British history, worse even the Lord that Johnson's legacy,
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1:40.2	his titanic Brexit success, as he once put it has certainly spurred
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