The Anas Sarwar One
Political Thinking with Nick Robinson
BBC
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Nick Robinson has a conversation with, not an interrogation of, the people who shape our political thinking about what shaped theirs.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.1 | Hello and welcome to Political Thinking If, and it is a mighty big if, |
| 0:08.8 | Keir Starmer makes it to number 10, |
| 0:11.0 | the route to Downing Street will have to run through Scotland. |
| 0:15.3 | Labour will have to win votes and votes in big numbers |
| 0:18.9 | in the original Red Wall, in those once heartlands for the party, |
| 0:23.5 | north of the border. |
| 0:25.0 | Now, they have just won Member Apartment. |
| 0:28.1 | My guest on Political Thinking This Week is Labour's Scottish leader, |
| 0:31.4 | Anna Sawa, he is the son of the first Muslim MP in Britain, |
| 0:36.5 | the first Asian MP in Scotland. |
| 0:39.5 | He trained as a dentist, but then he returned to the family business, |
| 0:44.8 | politics, Anna Sawa. |
| 0:46.9 | Welcome to Political Thinking If. |
| 0:48.1 | Thanks for having us. |
| 0:49.0 | Now, which is more frightening? |
| 0:50.2 | Waiting for the dentist drill or waiting for the verdict of the electorate? |
| 0:54.5 | Oh, definitely waiting for the verdict of the electorate. |
| 0:56.9 | I mean, the great thing about dentistry is that you get to be in complete control |
| 1:00.8 | about the dentist always ask the awkward questions |
| 1:04.1 | when they're already in the person's mouth doing the treatment. |
| 1:07.0 | And I used to always have this thing with my patients |
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