The National's Holyrood Weekly Podcast
The National's Holyrood Weekly Podcast
Playlist by The National's Holyrood Weekly PodcastOur team of political journalists talk us through the week that was in the Scottish Parliament, with appearances from politicians, campaigners and experts explaining key new stories.47 clip(s) in playlist
Special edition: Labour's PFI scandal
As part of our week-long investigation into Labour's PFI Scandal, we chat to Richard Murphy and Robin McAlpine about the practice and how much money has been spent on doomed projects in Scotland and across the UK.
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General Election special! Ft Mhairi Black on leaving Westminster
We're back for a special edition! While Abbi is on maternity leave, Steph Brawn and Adam Robertson put together this special episode for the election campaign. We're joined by Mhairi Black who reflects on nine years as an MP, Lorna Slater who takes on the urgency for parties to tackle the climate c…
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Behind the Scottish Budget with Shona Robison
Scottish Deputy First Minister Shona Robison describes the latest Scottish Budget is one of the "most difficult in the history of devolution". Taking our reporters through some of the controversial cuts the Scottish Government has made as its Budget passed in Holyrood last week, Robison also weighs…
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Inside the Commons Speaker Gaza ceasefire row with SNP chief whip Owen Thompson
The House of Commons descended into chaos this week as Speaker Lindsay Hoyle allowed a Labour amendment to be moved during an SNP opposition day debate that was supposed to be calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Go behind the scenes with SNP chief whip Owen Thompson who takes our political…
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Can the SNP win back Yessers at the General Election? With John Curtice
Scotland's top pollster and professor of politics at Strathclyde University John Curtice joins the podcast to dissect two new conflicting polls. We look ahead to the General Election, and why independence support has remained so steady almost a decade after the 2014 referendum. And, host Abbi Garto…
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Is the Scotland Office a waste of money?
What does the Scotland Office actually do, and why does it take multiple FOIs and a parliamentary question to find out how many staff they have working in Edinburgh? Host Abbi Garton-Crosbie is joined by SNP MP Deidre Brock to discuss Alister Jack's "propaganda" department, and political reporter S…
1:13:26
Can Scotland get rid of the King?
With the monarchy's popularity plummeting under King Charles - could or would an independent Scotland get rid of the royals? Political reporters Abbi Garton-Crosbie and Steph Brawn speak to anti-monarchy campaigner and Our Republic convener Tristan Gray on the politics of the royals in Scotland. El…
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What will a conversion therapy ban in Scotland look like?
The first podcast episode of 2024 looks at what could be the next controversial piece of legislation to come through Holyrood - a bid to ban LGBT+ conversion practices. Dr Rebecca Crowther and Tim Hopkins take us through the key points of the legislation and the pushback it has seen already just da…
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2023 Year in Review with Philippa Whitford
SNP MP Philippa Whitford joins our political reporters Abbi Garton-Crosbie and Steph Brawn for a lengthy chat about the biggest stories of the year, from Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation as first minister and where the campaign for independence is, as well as other news that has dominated Westminster …
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How could an independent Scotland influence global climate policy?
Scottish Greens MSP Mark Ruskell joins this week's podcast to discuss the main issues surrounding COP28 in Dubai, how an independent Scotland could influence global policy out from under the feet of Westminster and what domestic impact decisions made at the summit could have at home. Elsewhere, pol…
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