Succession In Scotland

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Humza Yousaf has been elected to follow Nicola Sturgeon as the next SNP leader and will soon become Scotland’s first minister. BBC Scotland editor James Cook, BBC special correspondent James Naughtie, and Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark talk about what it means for the future of Scotland and the rest of the UK. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has delayed controversial plans to reform the judicial system after mass protests. Adam gets instant reaction from the BBC’s Tom Bateman in Jerusalem. Today’s Newscast was made by Chris Flynn with Rufus Gray, Miranda Slade, and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor was Alison Gee. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, it's a day of successions today because there is a new leader of the Scottish National
0:09.9	Party and it's the first episode of the final series of the show's succession from HBO.
0:15.5	Why does everyone ask how unfair I've got done a huge deal?
0:20.5	I got the election?
0:23.4	I got me 10.
0:24.4	I got plenty on my plate.
0:26.8	He's on the floor, Tom.
0:29.0	Explain me what he's doing.
0:30.0	He's mozing, terrifyingly mozing.
0:33.7	It's like if Santa Claus was a hitman.
0:37.9	Oh, it was good to see previous guests from newscast appearing in Big Budget Hit TV shows.
0:42.4	Now we wanted to do a little skit using the famous succession music to tell the story of
0:46.7	the SMP leadership race.
0:48.6	The lawyers sadly said we couldn't use it.
0:51.2	However, we can use the Habardese composed by Felix Mendelsson.
0:57.4	It is hard for me to find the words, to describe just how honour they are, to be entrusted
1:05.6	by our membership of the SMP to be the party's next leader.
1:11.2	That's Hamza Yusuf after he was just crowned the winner and that was after a fairly bruising
1:16.5	battle with some people you could describe as his political siblings.
1:20.5	I'm the only candidate here that has a credible plan to build support for independence.
1:25.4	You've got record high waiting times.
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