WhatsAppened This Week?
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
WhatsApp communications during the pandemic cause trouble in Holyrood and Westminster. As the UK Covid Inquiry continues, some of the submitted messages between Government officials paint a revealing (and sometimes expletive-laden) picture of decision making during the pandemic. Meanwhile in Holyrood, senior figures in the Scottish Government have been accused of deleting messages requested by the UK Covid inquiry. First Minister Humza Yousaf has said he has not removed any of his own messages, and The Scottish Government has said it would submit 14,000 messages to the inquiry by Monday. Political correspondent David Wallace Lockhart and Political Editor Glenn Campbell sit down and discuss what the last week of drama means for the Westminster and Scottish Governments.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.0 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:10.2 | Hello, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast that brings you the latest stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.8 | It's 2.11pm on Tuesday the 2nd of November. |
| 0:24.9 | I'm David Wallace Locker, a political correspondent for BBC Scotland. |
| 0:29.1 | And today I'm joined by Glenn Campbell, also covering politics with you here at Holyrood today |
| 0:34.5 | where we've just had First Ministeristers question time, which is always the |
| 0:38.2 | highlight of the week, right? |
| 0:39.4 | That's right. |
| 0:40.1 | And we should explain we are without our regular host Lucy who's unavailable today. |
| 0:45.0 | So just Glenn and I, but hopefully I can try and do my best Lucy White impression and |
| 0:51.3 | ask some half-decent questions and you and I can have a bit of chat. |
| 0:55.0 | So let's have your Lucy White impression then? |
| 0:57.2 | Oh, I think I'd be in big trouble with Lucy next time she's hosting the pod. |
| 1:01.7 | Actually, I might not be invited back if I try to do a Lucy impression. |
| 1:05.8 | Now, our big theme this week is the pandemic, how it was handled by governments across the UK. And in London, |
| 1:13.4 | we've had the UK COVID inquiry. That's been continuing. And we'll get to that a bit shortly |
| 1:17.7 | because there were some, shall we say, spicy messages which became public from that this week. |
| 1:23.9 | Yeah, have we got a bleeper? Because I think we're going to need a bleeper for this edition of the podcast. |
| 1:30.5 | Yes, or a swear box or something, perhaps. |
| 1:36.3 | I suppose when in London there's been a lot of drama about WhatsApps that have become public, the big drama up here at Hollywood has been WhatsApps that aren't becoming public |
| 1:42.7 | because it appears, according to the lawyers for the UK |
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