The Protocol Problem

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

What do the local election results mean for the state of the Union? The team discusses the growing tensions over the Northern Ireland Protocol, the contents of the Queen's speech and what it means for the cost of living crisis, and the pressure growing on the UK Government as the SNP win in the Scottish local elections, and Sinn Féin becomes largest party in the NI Assembly.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.4	You're listening to BBC Scotland
0:10.0	Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast
0:15.6	That brings you an inside look at the big stories
0:17.9	coming out of Hollywood and Westminster.
0:20.3	It's 14 minutes past two on
0:22.3	Thursday the 12th of May. I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow and today I'm joined by
0:27.6	Nick Erdley in a cafe in Stoke. I'm Lindsay, a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament.
0:35.3	I'm Phil Sim also at the Scottish Parliament. And I Phil Sim, also at the Scottish Parliament.
0:38.1	And I'm Jane McCormack, a political correspondent based in Belfast.
0:42.5	Hello, everybody.
0:44.2	What a range of locations we've got today.
0:47.2	We're bringing you all corners of the UK.
0:49.3	I have to say it's very clear that Lindsay, Phil and Jane, you guys are in studios or sort of
0:56.6	studio type setups.
0:57.7	And Nick, you're very clearly in a caffeine store.
1:00.7	Sorry.
1:01.7	I don't have all my normal apparatus.
1:04.7	Why are you in a caffeine stoke?
1:05.7	I'm sitting in a cafe in stoke with a big potato.
1:10.2	And it's not just like we've got you on your day off.
1:12.2	You are there for work purposes.
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