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Hi, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast

that gives you an inside look at the biggest stories coming out of Holyroods and Westminster.

It's 14 minutes past two on Thursday the 10th of September.

I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in the Glasgow Newsroom.

But today, I come to you from the beautiful city of Dundee.

And also joining me today.

I'm Raj Thie Psyndu, Westminster correspondent for BBC Scotland, currently at home.

I'm Lindsay Bues at Hollywood.

I'm Phil Sim, also at Holyrood, but I would be quite happy to be in Dundee.

I love the Dundee office.

This is your spiritual home, Phil, isn't it, this office?

We're also joined this week by our special guest, Sebastian Payne from the Financial Times. Welcome to the podcast, Sebastian. Thank you very much for having me. Great to be here. Yeah, virtually. Yeah, virtually with us. And we've got you on because we're going to be talking about Brexit. It's back, everyone. It's back.

Da, da, da, da. Great news for everyone's sanity in the middle of a pandemic.

Something else to talk about. And Sebastian, just tell us a bit about, before we get into why specifically we've got you on this week, tell us a bit about what it is you do for the Financial Times.

So I'm our Whitehall correspondent, which basically means I'm there to cover things about the civil service, the machinery of the government, but I also write a lot about the Conservative Party, about foreign affairs.

I also produce a rival podcast, I should also say, Paine's Politics, available on all good podcast

stores.

You can't plug in there, very good.

Absolutely, you want to take every advantage you can.

But yeah, my main job is just trying to write about what goes on behind the scenes in the civil

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