Summary
New Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hopes to unite the Conservatives under his leadership after a quick contest, but with divisions still fresh after the premiership of Liz Truss, how will he do it? As economic and cost of living pressures continue, and with the opposition parties calling for a General Election, the team reacts to the appointment of the new PM, and discuss what happens next.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.5 | Hi, you're listening to Publico BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:16.0 | That brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of holly roods and westminster it is six minutes |
| 0:23.2 | past 11 on tuesday the 25th of october i'm lucy white a journalist based in glasgow and today i'm joined by |
| 0:30.5 | i'm phil sim a journalist normally based at the scottish parliament today on my holidays in westminster |
| 0:36.1 | and i am raj deep sandu a journalist based in Westminster, currently sitting right next to |
| 0:41.8 | Phil in the same studio. |
| 0:43.6 | Unbelievable. |
| 0:44.6 | I can't believe you're both having just a lovely time in Westminster. |
| 0:50.4 | Without me. |
| 0:51.9 | You can always join us, Lucy. |
| 0:53.5 | I mean, to be honest, we've just been working quite honestly. Yeah, yeah. You say always join us, Lucy. I mean, to be honest, we've just been working quite solidly. |
| 0:56.8 | You say a lovely time, like covering these breaking national events. |
| 1:01.4 | I would say unprecedented, but this happens roughly once a month. |
| 1:04.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.6 | I was actually going to say we should probably like apologize slightly to the listeners for the fact that we thought we went Galaxy Brain last week and did our podcast on the Wednesday thing we'd hit the really big news day of the week and missed by 24 hours the resignation of the Prime Minister so I mean I'm sure people found out about it on their own but they just didn't hear about it from us. Yeah. It was so funny, |
| 1:31.2 | though, because it was literally after the podcast and then everything started falling apart for Liz Truss's government. The Home Secretary resigned and then they lost like discipline |
| 1:37.0 | over the party. There were accusations of bullying in the voting chambers. It all kicked off |
| 1:42.9 | and it's weird that you now look back and go, well, the Home Secretary |
| 1:45.8 | resigning is like one of the smaller stories of the week in the end. |
| 1:50.0 | It's just everything's just spayed up, isn't it? |
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