Summary
The team talk procedure and pomp as the MSPs of the 6th Scottish Parliament are sworn in, and a new presiding officer is voted for. BBC political journalist Kirsten Campbell joins the team from Holyrood to discuss the events of the day; including why no party seems to want to put forward a new presiding officer, what the SNP plans for their first 100 days in Government, as well as whether or not the First Minister is given a very important purse.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.4 | 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 Holyroods and Westminster. |
| 0:23.3 | It is 10 to 1 on Thursday the 13th of May. I'm Lucy White, a journalist in Glasgow, and today I'm joined by. I'm Phil Sim, a journalist |
| 0:30.9 | based in my house in North Berwick. I'm Lindsay Bues, political correspondent, usually based at |
| 0:37.4 | Holyrood, but I'm at home in Edinburgh today. I'm Kirsten Campbell and I'm Lindsay Buse, political correspondent, usually based at Hollywood, but I'm at home in Edinburgh today. |
| 0:40.1 | I'm Kirsten Campbell and I'm in the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:43.0 | Carson, we are so glad you are with us today because you are right in the thick of it. |
| 0:47.1 | It's all going down in the Scottish Parliament today, isn't it? |
| 0:50.4 | It is. It's really exciting, actually. |
| 0:52.0 | There's a real buzz about the place and it's a bit like being at a |
| 0:55.1 | wedding because MSPs have got their glad rags on and they've all got their flowers in their |
| 1:00.4 | buttonholes and different flowers meaning different things and there are lots of men and kilts |
| 1:05.6 | and yeah it's quite exciting that must be quite weird after a sort of more than a year of |
| 1:10.6 | no formal events |
| 1:12.6 | like that. Is that the first time that we've seen something like this happen in Parliament in |
| 1:16.3 | a long time? It must be. It's certainly the first time that this number of MSPs have been |
| 1:20.3 | in the building for over a year because of social distancing measures. You know, a lot of them |
| 1:26.0 | have been, you know, dialing in remotely via |
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