The future of Scottish politics
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
As the Scottish parliament is sworn in, Matt Chorley looks at the history of Holyrood and speaks to one of the new MSPs, Liberal Democrat's Alex Cole Hamilton.
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| 1:01.6 | slash change. Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt |
| 1:08.6 | Shirley. Hello, today to our internationally listener, Rob, who is in Nairobi. He says, |
| 1:17.2 | I listen every day to keep up with the UK politics because we all need a cheap laugh now and again. |
| 1:20.9 | I think cheap about this podcast. Well, it really helps to pass the time I'm sitting in the |
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| 1:30.8 | It's fine if you're in the UK. It's nice to be in the UK. Let us just let us know where you're listening. |
| 1:35.3 | You can email me, Matt. Charlie at times. And we might even then get you on to do our hugely popular |
| 1:40.6 | quiz. Can you get to number 10 every day on my radio show? We do a quiz. 10 questions. It's |
| 1:45.1 | loosely connected to technical cabinet jobs. The more questions you get right, the better the job |
| 1:48.4 | you get to taking your place alongside our listeners and guests. So if you want to have a go at |
| 1:52.5 | doing the quiz, email me, Matt. Charlie at times. When you want to get you on very soon. Now then, |
| 1:57.1 | we had all the excitement. If that's the right word of the Queen's speech earlier this week as |
| 2:01.7 | a state opening of Parliament in Westminster. Well, on today's podcast, we are heading to Scotland |
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