The Garden Lobby
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
It's the first FMQs as Holyrood returns after recess, and Podlitical is in parliament. Lucy and Phil are joined in the Scottish Parliament's Garden Lobby by political reporter Abbi Garton-Crosbie of The National and Scottish political editor Rachel Watson of The Scottish Sun to discuss the big challenges and issues facing Holyrood this year. From the multi-billion pound package to help with energy bills announced by new Prime Minister Liz Truss, the cuts facing the Scottish Government, to strikes and pay rises, what's on the agenda for this term of Parliament?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.0 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.4 | Hello, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:16.5 | That brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Holyrood and Westminster and very much from Hollywood today. |
| 0:24.9 | It is 14 minutes past two. |
| 0:27.4 | On Thursday the 8th of September, I'm Lucy White. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm a journalist normally based in Glasgow, but today I am based in the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm Phil Sim, a political correspondent. |
| 0:39.2 | Also based in Scottish Parliament, that part is redundant today because we are all in the Scottish Parliament, but that's fine. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm Abbeyarton Crosby. I'm a political reporter with the National and I'm here on Thursdays in the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:49.3 | I'm Rachel Watson. I'm the political editor of the Scottish Sun and I am back based at Hollywood all the time |
| 0:56.0 | now that we're back from recess. So slightly different political this week. This is weird. |
| 1:01.5 | It's weird. I can see all your faces which doesn't normally happen. Normally we're doing it from |
| 1:05.8 | different studios across Scotland and the UK but we decided because Parliament is back politics is back although |
| 1:14.9 | did it ever go away we can debate that in a minute we decided to do it from what's known as the |
| 1:20.5 | garden lobby of the Scottish Parliament and I've been here a couple of times but you guys as you |
| 1:27.3 | say are here a lot more than I am. |
| 1:29.5 | So two questions for you. Is it normally this busy? And is it normally this hot, Phil? |
| 1:35.2 | Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to comment on the air conditioning systems of our 440 million |
| 1:39.8 | pound Parliament building. They're very good. Yeah, no, it is. I think Thursday is a really busy day at Parliament because it's First Minister's Questions, is the first |
| 1:45.9 | one back of the term. And you can, you know, |
| 1:47.8 | it can paint a picture for our listeners. You can look around, |
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