Show 321 - *Mhairi Black - LIVE*
Matt Forde's Political Party
The Political Party
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Mhairi Black took British politics by storm with her election and maiden speech in 2015. 8 years on and she's now Deputy Leader of the SNP in Westminster... but not for much longer. A few weeks ago Mhairi announced that she won't be standing at the next election. Why has such an impassioned politician, especially one who's now in a leadership role, deciding to stand down at just age 28? This is the story of a tumultuous period in our politics, where rapid change has become the norm. Scottish politics is arguably even more volatile, so what is the future of the country, the SNP and the independence movement? This is a riveting, urgent listen... especially if you love video games.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political party. Today's guest is Mary Black, deputy leader of the |
| 0:16.1 | SMP and Westminster and of course someone who set the political world a light with her |
| 0:20.0 | election in 2015 which was just 20 years old and her maiden speech in Parliament. And before |
| 0:25.8 | we come on to that, just to let you know, I can now announce to all my guests at the Edmund |
| 0:29.5 | Professor, we're going to be and what the dates will be. So obviously I'm taking my new stand-up |
| 0:33.0 | show to the Edmund Professor inside number 10, which is obviously clever plan words on the |
| 0:38.6 | TV show inside number nine with the political slant, which is at the Pleasant Court yard |
| 0:44.2 | every day from the second to the 27th of August at 8pm. And I'm also doing three political parties |
| 0:51.1 | there and the dates and guests are as follows. On the 8th of August, I'm joined by the new |
| 0:57.0 | First Minister of Scotland and leader of the SMP, Homs Are Yousef. It's the first time I've |
| 1:01.6 | interviewed Homs are in front of an audience on the show and obviously the first time I've had |
| 1:05.0 | him on since I become a First Minister and with everything going on, that will be obviously a |
| 1:09.8 | fascinating time to interview him. On the 18th of August, I'm interviewing Angela Rainer, the deputy |
| 1:15.5 | leader of the Labour Party, obviously Angela was on the show a couple of years ago and he's always |
| 1:20.4 | amazing fun. That will be an outrageous afternoon in the company of one of our most charismatic |
| 1:26.7 | politicians and on the 21st of August, I guess he's Kate Forbes, who only narrowly came second |
| 1:33.0 | in the SMP leadership race and of course offered an alternative view of what the SMP could be |
| 1:40.6 | in many ways. So again, three completely different personalities with really interesting |
| 1:45.9 | perspectives and obviously big names in our politics, three phenomenal guests. So Homs Are Yousef |
| 1:53.4 | on the 8th of August, Angela Rainer on the 18th of August and Kate Forbes on the 21st of August, |
| 1:58.2 | if you go to matford.com slash live, you can get tickets for all those and then in the autumn, |
| 2:03.3 | we're back at the Duchess there to the first show back on the 18th of September, |
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