The Rt Hon Ian Blackford on Scottish independence and the future of the SNP

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🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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On this special episode of UKICE (I Tell), we have a live recording of our most recent Unlocked event featuring Professor Anand Menon's interview with the Rt Hon Ian Blackford, MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber and former SNP Westminster leader. The conversation covered a wide range of issues including the future of the SNP, Labour’s chances in the next general election, the impact of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum and the prospect of an independent Scotland rejoining the European Union.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to this latest edition of the Uciss Itel podcast.
0:05.3	And my guest today is none other than Ian Blackford.
0:08.3	Former leader, of course, of the SMP in Westminster.
0:11.7	I had a long and detailed conversation with Ian about everything ranging from the state of the SMP,
0:18.1	the debate about independence, what an independent Scotland's economy
0:21.6	might look like and crucially, whether he prefers Barbie or Oppenheimer.
0:30.6	Hi everyone and welcome to this latest in our series of Unlocked. A special welcome I've been told
0:39.1	to give to a couple of people in the audience who are actually tourists who just popped by on
0:42.8	their way past and decided that this was better than seeing the Tower of London or something. Quite
0:47.3	right. So the Tower of London is massively overpriced, so you're far better off here, to be quite
0:51.4	honest. Our guest tonight is Ian Blackford, known to you all, but Member of Parliament for Ross, Sky,
0:58.5	and you say it.
0:59.4	Lohaber.
1:00.0	Thank you very much.
1:01.4	Since 2015, there's going to be language issues throughout this.
1:04.4	We can do it in Gallic if you want as well.
1:06.0	Oh.
1:06.6	Well, you say we?
1:08.6	I don't think so.
1:09.6	He spent five years as the SMP's leader in Westminster from 2017.
1:13.6	I think, didn't you come against four different Prime Ministers in your time?
1:17.6	Yeah.
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