With a Cherry on Top?

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Tensions grow in the SNP, as Joanna Cherry is dropped from the Westminster front bench. In a public row, she claims she was 'sacked', while the party says it had made a number of changes to its Westminster team before the upcoming Holyrood election. Ahead of next week's potential appearance of Alex Salmond at the inquiry into how the Scottish Government handled sexual misconduct complaints, and with the row over the Gender Recognition Act still simmering away, just what is going on inside the SNP? The team discuss this and more.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.4	You're listening to BBC Scotland
0:09.6	Hi, you're listening to
0:13.9	Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast
0:15.8	that brings you an inside look at the biggest stories
0:18.3	coming out of Hollywood and Westminster.
0:20.2	It is 31 minutes past two
0:22.7	on thursday the 4th of february i'm lucy white a journalist based in glasgow and joining me today is
0:29.6	i'm lindsay buse in edinburgh nick early westminster why seeps and you working from home in London? And Phil Sim, WFH in Edinburgh.
0:39.5	In an empty flat, Phil.
0:41.7	We're used to you in your aiding cupboard, but I think it's been emptied.
0:44.4	We can tell by the echo.
0:45.9	Yeah, well, wild horses could not keep me away from doing Fodlitical
0:49.4	and either kind of moving company, seemingly.
0:51.4	Quite quite.
0:51.9	So, I'm probably from a completely empty flat. Yeah, so it's your week off this week to, as you say, get organised and move.
0:57.5	But you're still here on Podlitical and I'd like to think it's because of your dedication.
1:02.7	But I'm also thinking about your options for other things you could be doing.
1:05.9	You can't exactly be going on holiday.
1:07.7	You can't be meeting your friends.
1:09.7	So, you know, it's a pretty low bar, isn't it?
1:13.4	Yeah, really rubbing that in there. Nothing better to do than hang up with you guys.
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