Can Labour capitalise on SNP chaos post-Sturgeon?
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Note: this episode was recorded before Humza Yousaf was announced as the new leader of the SNP on Monday 27th March 2023.
Ahead of the SNP leadership contest result, Christopher Hope brings you a Scotland special edition of Chopper's Politics. The Telegraph's Scottish Political Editor, Simon Johnson, and columnist and staunch unionist Alan Cochrane, head to the studio to talk about the role of the Greens in the future of Scotland and whether the unionist parties, whisper it, might be in talks about some future tactical voting.
Plus the Labour's Anas Sarwar, found time to pop into the Red Lion to talk about why he thinks Sturgeon's departure makes it easier for Sir Keir Starmer to become Prime Minister, and how he would put the economy front and centre of a Labour lead Scotland, after years of focus on social policy.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on choppers politics. |
| 0:04.0 | For 20 years we've largely had a social policy parliament and the reality is, and this might sound strange coming from a labor politician, |
| 0:11.0 | is you only get to achieve all the things you want to |
| 0:14.2 | achieve in social policy if it's backed up by a strong economy a growing economy |
| 0:18.5 | success for those policies absolutely |
| 0:21.6 | hello I'm Christopher Hope the Associate Editor for Politics at the Daily Telegraph, and welcome to The Choppers Politics Podcast. |
| 0:28.0 | It's a big day in Scotland, where members of the SMP elect a new leader and therefore a new |
| 0:34.8 | first minister. The past few weeks have seen bitter in-fighting as the three |
| 0:39.2 | candidates Humza Yousif Kate Forbes and and Ash Reagan have battled to succeed Nicholas Sturgeon. |
| 0:46.3 | Later we'll be talking to Anas Sarwa, the Scottish Labour leader about whether his party |
| 0:50.9 | can capitalize on the SMP Chaos. |
| 0:53.8 | But first to take stock in the past few weeks, |
| 0:56.1 | I got together the Telegraph Scotland editor Simon Johnson |
| 0:59.7 | and our columnist and Stolwart Unionist Alan Cochran to give their verdict on the leadership battle |
| 1:06.1 | and what the future may hold. |
| 1:09.1 | Simon Johnson, Alan Cochran, two of our most brilliant Scotland watches and reporters here at the Telegraph. |
| 1:14.6 | Welcome to Chopper's Politics Podcast. |
| 1:16.5 | Great to have you both on. |
| 1:18.0 | Yes, thanks for inviting me on Chris. |
| 1:19.6 | I can only see one great reporter myself. |
| 1:22.1 | Thank you, Alan. We're doing it down the line ahead of the |
| 1:24.4 | result on Monday. Simon Johnson to you first. You're based on the Edinburgh as our |
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