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The Lesley Riddoch Podcast
Lesley Riddoch and Fraser Thompson
4.6 • 274 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
How many weeks have started with a ponder that this has been an extraordinary week for the Labour Party? Nothing, so far at least, could eclipse Anas Sarwar’s solo attempt to unseat Prime Minister Kier Starmer this week. In this episdoe, we look at the series of departures, Tim Allan, the press officer who hardly got noticed going in the wake of Morgan McSweeney's departure as Chief of Staff.
We discuss the impact in Scotland and the May elections. We also react to the Scottish conference of Your Party, which voted decisively to be a pro-independence party and their decision to field candidates on the list and in constituencies at the Holyrood election.
There’s a smattering of on the winter Olympics and renewed calls for a proper bank holiday on Saint Andrew’s Day.
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| 0:00.0 | many weeks have started with a ponder that this has been an extraordinary week for the Labour Party |
| 0:04.7 | and of course nothing could eclipse what actually happened yesterday. We look at the serial |
| 0:10.2 | leavings of Tim Allen, the press officer who hardly got noticed going in the wake of Morgan |
| 0:16.6 | McSweeney's departures, Chief of, and then, of course, the extraordinary press conference |
| 0:21.5 | by Anna Sarwar, where he seems to have blown up both an attempted blow-up of Starmer as leader, |
| 0:28.1 | with a couple of unlikely supporters from both left and right of the Scottish Labour Party |
| 0:33.9 | in terms of the Scottish Parliament, but by gum, not much of a sound out of the Scottish Labour MPs in terms of supporting his stance. |
| 0:43.1 | So how on earth does Scottish Labour move forward now? |
| 0:47.1 | Can they even have Kirstarmer north of the border campaigning for candidates in the May election? |
| 0:53.8 | This and speculation on the Olympics |
| 0:57.0 | talk about whether or not we should have a bank holiday properly. Let's get on with it for |
| 1:02.0 | St Andrew's Night and much else besides. Those are the headlines and now for the podcast. |
| 1:07.0 | Well, hi folks and welcome to this week's Leslie Riddock podcast, with the big news of the week being |
| 1:12.8 | Eleanor Morgan's support for Kyrs-Darmer First Minister. |
| 1:17.4 | Who be she, you wonder? |
| 1:19.0 | Well, this is the First Minister of Wales, who didn't commit Harry Carey yesterday, unlike the putative First Minister of Scotland, if young Anas Sarwar who was out and about |
| 1:31.6 | decrying the Prime Minister and giving it loudly with my country Scotland and calling for |
| 1:38.8 | the Prime Minister to resign. It's been quite a week. We normally start this podcast with a |
| 1:43.6 | worst week of the week award, |
| 1:44.9 | awarded weekly on a week by week basis. |
| 1:47.4 | And I think last week's intro was it's been a bad week for labour. |
| 1:52.0 | I don't know what you would describe this as, |
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