The toxic culture of Westminster: An MP resigns on air
The News Agents
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🗓️ 4 July 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The SNP's deputy leader in Westminster, Mhairi Black MP, joins us exclusively in News Agents HQ to announce she's stepping down at the next election.
We discuss the "toxic" culture that's led to Black - the youngest MP in 350 years when she was elected in 2015 - to leave parliament, and we ask why so many other MPs won't be standing again.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | Today on the Newsagents, we have an exclusive. |
| 0:14.4 | We're going to talk to the woman who became the youngest elected member of parliament in 300 years, Marie Black for the |
| 0:23.1 | SMP, who got in in 2015 and today she tells us she's had enough. |
| 0:29.7 | Westminster, I think, it is one of the most unhealthy workplaces that you could ever be in. |
| 0:35.6 | It's a toxic environment. |
| 0:38.5 | What is it about the culture of Westminster, its toxicity, that is making so many MPs, want to quit? |
| 0:46.3 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 0:50.8 | The Newsagents. |
| 0:52.7 | This is a dangerous government making bad decisions on top of a global pandemic |
| 0:58.6 | But mind you, we shouldn't be surprised given the fact that they seem to have been |
| 1:02.2 | half the time at parties in number 10 |
| 1:04.2 | So as I said, there is an element of truth |
| 1:07.9 | And that the war in Ukraine for instance has also... |
| 1:12.6 | She just said to the honourable lady she really must not use language like that. |
| 1:17.6 | Please don't. |
| 1:19.6 | I hope you will apologise for... |
| 1:23.6 | They were inebriated, intoxicated, They were paralytic at parties in number 10. |
| 1:29.6 | Is that all right? |
| 1:30.8 | Quite careful. |
| 1:32.2 | Marie Black continue. |
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