Unionist Head Scratching

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BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg joins the team to chat about how Whitehall views the apparent rise in support for Scottish independence, the discussions going on inside Number 10 about what they can do to counter it, and the concern of Unionists about the potential impact of continuing to rule out a referendum if the SNP wins a majority at next year's Holyrood election.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.4	You're listening to BBC Scotland
0:10.0	Hi everyone
0:14.5	You've noticed it's not a Thursday
0:16.0	This isn't a normal episode
0:17.5	This is a bonus
0:18.4	And we're going to talk a bit about independence from a different point of view this week,
0:24.0	from how it's viewed in Westminster and what the UK government is going to do about it.
0:29.5	Basically, I've got...
0:31.1	Laura Coonsberg here, the BBC political editor. Hello.
0:34.1	And...
0:35.0	And Phil Sim at Holyrood.
0:37.0	Hi, guys. Welcome, Laura.
0:38.6	Thank you. This is exciting.
0:39.8	We've not had you on before.
0:41.2	No, pleasure to be here.
0:42.0	But we've been talking a lot about this over the last few weeks, haven't we? Scotland.
0:46.0	And I mean, maybe you can just explain where we think the UK government is at at this.
0:51.4	Because people are worried, aren't they?
0:52.6	There's a lot of concern. Oh, I don't think it's an underestimate to say that there's actual panic in sort of unionist
0:57.9	circles in Westminster. And I think panic for a couple of reasons. I think one, they've been
1:02.4	looking at what the polls suggest and what the polls have been suggesting over time, which is that
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