Summary
Headaches for the UK and Scottish Governments around WhatsApp, roaming iPads, and marches. In Holyrood, opposition parties claim First Minister Humza Yousaf misled parliament over government WhatsApp messages sent during the pandemic, which the FM has denied. This was followed with the news that Scottish Health Secretary Michael Matheson racked up an £11,000 roaming bill on an iPad he took to Morocco, charges he claims were caused while doing constituency work using an outdated SIM card. Meanwhile in Westminster, Number 10 disowns an article written by Home Secretary Suella Braverman accusing the police of bias around its handling of protests, ahead of the planned Pro-Palestinian march this weekend, with some Tories calling for her to be sacked by Prime Minister Sunak. The team talk through a tricky week for leaders in Holyrood and Westminster.
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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 |
| 0:13.8 | Political BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.5 | that brings you an inside look at the big stories |
| 0:17.9 | covering out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.3 | It's nine minutes past two on Thursday the 9th of November. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow. |
| 0:26.2 | And today I'm joined by. |
| 0:27.4 | I'm Phil Sim, a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:29.9 | And I'm Georgia Roberts, journalist based in Westminster. |
| 0:33.0 | Phil and Georgia. |
| 0:33.9 | How are you guys doing? |
| 0:35.0 | It's been as usual, a busy week. And a busy day today in |
| 0:39.7 | particular. We've timed this pretty well. It's been a week that's been really quiet at |
| 0:43.5 | Holyrood and we've kind of been watching King's speeches and stuff from afar and then today it has |
| 0:47.7 | gone completely bonkers. There's been 10 stories at once. Well it's time it's pretty good. None of us |
| 0:53.2 | were here in our normal Thursday group episode, |
| 0:56.5 | which I think is a record for none of us to be. |
| 0:59.7 | None of the court. |
| 1:00.7 | Who was even on the podcast? |
| 1:02.1 | Well, it was lovely David Wallace Lockhart and Glenn were there. |
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