Summary
With the election aftershocks settling, what does the "new normal" in politics look like? As MPs finish being sworn in after several days, the shape of the House of Commons sees an emboldened Labour and a much diminished Conservatives and SNP. With Ian Murray MP announced as the new Scotland secretary, what does this new office-holder and new political landscape have in store for Scotland - from Grangemouth & GB Energy to giveaways - and how might the next two years play out between Labour and the SNP as they embark on a potentially very long campaign in the lead up to the 2026 Holyrood election.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:10.3 | Hello, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.9 | that brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.0 | It is about quarter past two on |
| 0:21.7 | Thursday the 11th of July. I'm Phil Sim, a journalist based in Edinburgh and today I'm joined by. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm Lindsay Buse, a journalist also based in Edinburgh. And I'm David Porter, BBC Scotland's |
| 0:32.7 | Westminster correspondent who has spent the week watching new MPs come into Parliament and get lost. |
| 0:39.5 | How has it been down there, David? |
| 0:40.9 | I know that there's been a lot of chat about it being first week of school. |
| 0:44.1 | Obviously, the mood will be significantly better among some MPs than others. |
| 0:47.9 | But what's your sort of overview of all been down there? |
| 0:50.6 | I think it's a case of as the week has gone on, people have come to, not necessarily |
| 0:56.8 | accept, but come to terms with the new realities. And the realities have changed immensely at |
| 1:03.9 | Westminster. Westminster is a very old building. People say it's often like Hogwarts and it's |
| 1:09.2 | seen an awful lot of things over the centuries. |
| 1:12.2 | But what we're seeing now and what we saw very much this week when we elected a new speaker |
| 1:16.7 | here at Westminster, writ large was the changes that had taken place. |
| 1:20.8 | The government benches absolutely packed with Labour MPs. |
| 1:25.4 | There are, you know, more than 400 of them, utterly, utterly crammed on their |
| 1:30.5 | benches. |
| 1:31.0 | And there's not 400 seats on that side, are there? |
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