A Matter of Life and Death?

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BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The team talk winter fuel payments in Scotland, immigration, and assisted dying. Ahead of next week's Scottish Government budget, Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville has told Holyrood that every pensioner in Scotland will receive a winter fuel payment next year. What does this mean for Scotland's finances and what does it say about the battlegrounds being laid for the 2026 Holyrood election? Plus, immigration figures are out, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer accusing the previous Conservative government of running an "open borders experiment", as Reform UK's leader Nigel Farage claims the party has hit 100 thousand members, and MPs are set to debate assisted dying in England and Wales.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.4	You're listening to BBC Scotland
0:10.2	Hi, you're listening to Political BBC Scotland's podcast
0:15.8	that brings you the biggest stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster.
0:19.0	It's six minutes past two on Thursday the 28th of
0:22.6	November. I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow. Today I'm joined by. I'm Phil Sim, a journalist
0:27.8	based at Hollywood. And I'm David Porter, a journalist based at Westminster. Hello, Phil and
0:32.6	David, journalist based at various parliaments. How are you both? Well, very well, actually. It's been a long week. They're all long weeks at the moment,
0:41.6	and it's not over yet. So let's just see what we say, and then what people say two minutes
0:47.4	after we've recorded this. That's true. Last night, I was in an office with David in Westminster,
0:52.7	and I've managed to teleport back to
0:54.5	Holyrood today.
0:56.0	Wow.
0:57.0	It's been back in for business up here.
0:58.0	So it's been slightly exhausting week of travelling around.
1:01.0	Oh my goodness.
1:02.0	We're going to get into all of that and your reasons for being down there, Phil, in just a minute.
1:05.0	I mean it's only London.
1:06.0	It's like I wasn't in Dubai.
1:07.0	No.
1:08.0	It's not overhype it. Okay, fair now. You were elsewhere from your Holyrood's comfy area.
1:15.3	I was going to say, I was trying to think of a nice cocoon.
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