Summary
John Swinney looks set to be first minister as he's backed by potential challenger Forbes. Following his announcement he was running to be the next leader of the SNP and new First Minister of Scotland, John Swinney, the former deputy to Nicola Sturgeon for almost a decade, looks set to win the top job after potential rival Kate Forbes announced she is backing him. The team analyse what might happen next, whether anyone else will put their name forward for the role, and - if Swinney is unopposed - how his premiership might unfold. Will he be able to pull a divided SNP together, and will his second time as SNP leader go more smoothly than the first?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:10.6 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.8 | That brings you an inside look at the big stories |
| 0:18.3 | coming out of Holly Roots and Westminster. |
| 0:20.4 | It is seven minutes to |
| 0:22.9 | three on Thursday the 2nd of May. I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow and today I'm |
| 0:28.7 | joined by. I'm Lindsay Hughes, a correspondent based in Edinburgh. And I'm David Porter, BBC Scotland's |
| 0:35.2 | Westminster correspondent, as the name suggests, based in Westminster, |
| 0:39.4 | but looking on journalistically, very enviously, to what has been happening in Holyrood |
| 0:45.4 | and rather wishing, for this week at least, that I was with Lindsay, prowling the corridors of Holyrood and poking politicians to see what they would be saying. |
| 0:54.9 | David, you've got what's called FOMO, fear of missing out. I've had that as well. I've been on |
| 1:00.2 | holiday for the past two weeks and had a lovely time. I was just in the US with my family. But I feel as if |
| 1:05.9 | I've been on the moon because I've missed so much in Scottish political news in just those two weeks. It's |
| 1:13.6 | unreal. I've been keeping up to date as much as possible, catching up with the podcast in particular |
| 1:18.1 | from the sunshine, back to work today. And I have to say I've chosen a good day to come back |
| 1:23.6 | because it's been a day of a lot of news, a lot of movement, a lot of change. |
| 1:30.3 | I think it's fair enough to say nothing official yet, but looks like we're shaping up to have |
| 1:35.0 | a new First Minister now, not official, but John Swinney's announced he's going to be running |
| 1:39.6 | to be SNP leader. |
| 1:42.0 | And just over an hour ago, Kate Forbes, who's the only other lightly contender, said that she isn't going to be S&P leader. And just over an hour ago, Kate Forbes, who's the only other likely contender, |
| 1:45.4 | said that she isn't going to be running. |
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