The Independence Strategy

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The team look ahead to the SNP's "Convention on Independence" in Dundee. With First Minister Humza Yousaf due to open the convention with a speech, what will we learn about the SNP's preferred Scottish independence strategy going forward? The team chats through some of the options that may be on the table for the membership, as well as what strategies they might employ to raise support. From defacto referendums, constitutions, and mass marches, what shape will the independence movement in Scotland take after this week's convention, and where are the points of tension - not just in the SNP, but between other pro-independence parties Alba and the Scottish Greens?

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.4	You're listening to BBC Scotland
0:10.4	Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast
0:16.0	That brings you an inside look at the biggest stories
0:18.3	coming out of Holyrood and Westminster.
0:20.3	It's seven minutes past two. On Thursday the 22nd of
0:24.6	June, I'm Lucy White, a journalist
0:26.6	based in Glasgow, and today I'm joined by.
0:29.3	I'm Phil Sume, a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament.
0:31.9	I'm David Wallace Lockhart, political correspondent,
0:34.6	also at the Scottish Parliament.
0:36.4	Hello, Phil and David.
0:38.9	You're next to each other today?
0:43.1	We are in the same studio for a rare podcast.
0:47.3	Yeah. And you note the air of surprise when I said the 22nd of June.
0:51.5	I just can't believe it's the 22nd of June.
0:52.9	Does anyone else feel like that?
0:58.1	Or does it feel like you're definitely due to be heading towards recess soon, both of you guys? Yeah, there was the other day.
0:59.2	No, yesterday.
1:00.5	Indeed, they were like, oh, it's the longest day.
1:02.0	And I was like, oh, I kind of wasn't used to it being summer yet.
1:04.6	But in hindsight, it's now light all night, isn't it?
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