Whatever Floats Your Boat
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Ahead of Parliamentary recess, the team discuss the row over ferry contracts and Covid. In a bumper week at Holyrood, the debate over the delayed CalMac ferries continues, and the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon pushes back the lifting of face covering restrictions by two weeks in light of rising Covid-19 cases. In Westminster, Partygate is back in the spotlight after the first fines for Downing Street parties are issued by the Met Police. What does this all mean as the cost of living crisis grows and we head into the local elections, and will these pressures on the Scottish and UK Governments be reflected in the polling booths?
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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 Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.8 | that brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.4 | It's two minutes past two on Thursday the 31st of March. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow, and today I'm joined by... |
| 0:28.6 | I'm Rajseep Sundew, a journalist based in Westminster. |
| 0:31.9 | I'm Lindsay Buse, a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:34.8 | And I'm Phil Sim, a journalist also based at the Scottish Parliament. Hello, everybody. Sim, a journalist, also based at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:37.9 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:39.2 | Hello. |
| 0:39.7 | Hi, gang. |
| 0:40.3 | Hi. |
| 0:41.0 | Hi. |
| 0:41.2 | Yeah, this is our last episode before we have two weeks off. |
| 0:45.6 | End of term. |
| 0:46.7 | End of term. |
| 0:47.3 | Yeah, because it's the Easter holidays or recess or whatever you want to call it at Westminster and Hollywood. |
| 0:55.3 | This is the most exciting time of year. We're into council election season. |
| 0:59.4 | Oh, which is that is. This is where the rubber hits the road for me. |
| 1:04.4 | So because it's our last episode for a couple of weeks, we thought it might be a good chance |
| 1:08.4 | to just cover a few different topics that have been bubbling away for in both Hollywood and Westminster over the past week or so and have, |
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