The Battle of Hustings
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Prime Ministerial hopefuls Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss face Tory voters in Scotland. Lucy Whyte speaks to Phil Sim and Glenn Campbell from Perth to get an inside look at the hustings, after the two Conservative candidates sell themselves as the best person to be Prime Minister to party members. Where do they stand on Indyref2, taxation, and what to do about the cost of living crisis?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.5 | Hello, you're listening to |
| 0:14.1 | Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:16.2 | that brings you an inside look at the biggest stories |
| 0:18.8 | coming out of Hollyroods and Westminster. |
| 0:22.3 | It's 10 to 10 on Tuesday, the 16th of August. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Lucy White. I'm a journalist based in Glasgow and this evening I'm joined by. |
| 0:34.8 | Am I going first? I'm Phil Sim. I'm a journalist currently in Perth at the Scottish Conservative leadership, |
| 0:41.6 | Hustings, and I'm underneath a duvet in a hotel room trying to get sound quality. |
| 0:47.1 | It's Glenn Campbell here, and I am also a political journalist based at Hollywood, Westminster, |
| 0:51.6 | or, well, whatever the political story is. And tonight, that's in Perth. |
| 0:55.0 | It certainly is in Perth. And political listeners will realise we don't normally record at this time |
| 1:01.8 | of night. And also, we've been kind of stopping and starting throughout the summer because |
| 1:05.6 | initially we'd planned to be off for recess. But the Conservatives, who were about to speak a lot about this evening, |
| 1:13.5 | had other plans for us, and they're in the middle of a leadership race. |
| 1:16.8 | So Phil and Glenn, you are in a hotel room in Perth, and that is why Phil... |
| 1:22.3 | I'd like to stress that Glenn is not under the duvet. |
| 1:24.6 | Like, political realtors are no, I've constructed many duvet tents in my time on the podcast, but I am alone under the duvetical wrestlers I know I've constructed many duvet tents in my time on the podcast |
| 1:29.1 | but I am alone under the duvet |
| 1:31.5 | There's a lot of denial here |
| 1:34.1 | Yeah producer Matt and I are going to save everybody's ears |
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