Tale Of Two Leaders
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
It's been a tough week to be a former political party leader. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has resigned as an MP ahead of a damning report by the Privileges Committee, where MPs found he had deliberately misled parliament and the committee over pandemic rules breaches. Johnson says the report is a "political assassination". Meanwhile in Holyrood, and former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was arrested and released without charge over the continuing police investigation into SNP party finances. The team discuss the week's explosive news, and how ex-leaders are causing potential problems for the current leaders in Scotland and Westminster, FM Humza Yousaf and PM Rishi Sunak.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.5 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:16.2 | that brings you an inside look at the biggest stories |
| 0:18.3 | coming out of Hollywoods and Westminster. |
| 0:20.6 | It's seven minutes past two on Thursday the 15th of June. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow. |
| 0:26.7 | And today I'm joined by. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Phil Sim, journalist based at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:31.2 | And I'm David Porter. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm BBC Scotland's Westminster correspondent. |
| 0:35.4 | Where, surprisingly or not, we think we've got a story here today. |
| 0:38.4 | Yeah, there's a little something happening down your way today, David. |
| 0:42.2 | And I have to point out, I think this is, we were just talking before we started recording, |
| 0:45.6 | five or so years in, this is the first time that we've had you on the podcast, which is quite |
| 0:50.9 | remarkable actually. |
| 0:52.2 | Yeah, I've eventually battered the doors down and found |
| 0:55.4 | the microphone, and they've eventually let me on. It means that Rajdeep who did it so fantastically |
| 1:00.8 | for the five years is on maternity leave at the moment, and I've managed to creep in. So thank you |
| 1:07.3 | for inviting me, and I'm looking forward to a good old latter. |
| 1:12.8 | Yeah, we are really looking forward to having you. |
| 1:14.3 | And also, I need to mention, |
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