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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Cindy Yu, and I'm joined by James Forsy and Katie Balls.

So over the weekend, Alex Salmon has been building his new political party. Katie, can you tell us

what's been going on there? Yes, so this is Alba and depending on who you speak to, this is good news

for the pro-independence calls, awful news for the pro-independence calls,

good news for unionists, or terrible news for unionists.

But ultimately, what Alba seeks to do is to, or these what they're saying it seeks to do,

is to add to the pro-Indy voices in Scottish Parliament, in politics, and it's led by Alex Salmond.

Now, I think the reason that

for all the talk of the fact that it's going to, you know, be helpful to the cause, there's clearly

a sting in the sense that Annex Salmon is not on good terms of Nicola Sturgeon. In fact, you

could, you know, almost political Siberia, we just had the Alex Salmon inquiry, which looked as

though Nicola Sturton's

position could really be in danger. However, she was then cleared on all counts by the independent

Hamilton inquiry, so soon to be almost at this point where she could move on, then pops up her

predecessor who wants to be around in Scottish politics for some time to come, is looking for election himself,

but also now a few defections from the SMP,

two from Westminster, including Kenny McCaskill,

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