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Podlitical

Tiers for Fears

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6157 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Scotland's new five-tier system is unveiled and former Labour leader Corbyn is suspended as the team tackle another busy news day. Will the Scottish Government's new restrictions manage to crack down on Covid-19 cases before Christmas? Meanwhile, in Westminster, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has suspended Jeremy Corbyn from the party over his reaction to a highly critical report on anti-Semitism. How will it impact the party, and will the report's shockwaves hit the Scottish Labour party too?

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds

0:02.4

You're listening to BBC Scotland

0:09.7

Hi, you're listening to Political BBC Scotland's podcast that gives you an inside look

0:17.3

at the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster.

0:20.8

I'm Lindsay Buse, a correspondent

0:22.2

based at the Scottish Parliament, and today I'm joined by...

0:26.4

Nick Erlair, Westminster. Roche Eppson-Doo at home. And Phil Sim, also in the Scottish Parliament.

0:32.5

And actually, very quickly, I'm in a different seat today and in a totally different angle in the

0:36.5

chamber, and people are furiously cleaning it.

0:38.6

So that's good for the COVID era.

0:39.8

I thought I'd point out.

0:40.7

People are furiously cleaning the parliamentary chamber.

0:43.2

That is good to know.

0:44.1

You might have noticed that Lucy White isn't hosting today.

0:48.1

It's me instead.

0:48.8

And that's because Lucy's in isolation.

0:50.9

She's having to stay at home.

0:52.8

Lucy lockdown.

0:56.3

We have been assured that she's absolutely fine.

1:00.6

It's just precautionary isolation. Test and protect, hitting home. Test and protect is hitting in. The virus has become real for Podlitical. Very much so. It's opposed to the last six months

1:07.8

when we've been recording. Yes, good point. Anyway, we're going to start off today.

1:12.5

Well, there's a couple of big things around today.

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