Stuck In The Middle
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Pledges for the young and the old, but are politicians forgetting about the middle? Jojo Sutherland and Stewart Weir join the team to chat parenthood and politics this election.
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| 0:27.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland. |
| 0:32.3 | Hello, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast that gives you an inside look |
| 0:37.4 | at the biggest stories coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:41.1 | It's just gone a quarter past one on Tuesday the 3rd of December. |
| 0:44.5 | I'm Laura Maxwell, a journalist based at the BBC in Glasgow. |
| 0:49.0 | Now, we're in the last couple of weeks of the election campaign and politicians are continuing to promise voters |
| 0:54.4 | perks left, right and centre. But what about those who are in the middle? The homeowners, |
| 1:00.6 | the parents, the ones looking after kids and their ageing parents? Has this election spoken to them? |
| 1:06.9 | Or are they simply too busy getting on with stuff to pay all that much attention? |
| 1:11.0 | To talk about this today, I'm joined by. |
| 1:13.4 | I'm Raj Seep Sandhu and I'm here in the studio with you, Laura, in Glasgow, although usually I'm based in Westminster. |
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