Get The Band Back Together

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Podlitical is back as parliaments return from recess bearing bad news for public spending. The new Labour government are pointing the finger at the previous successive Conservative governments for a "£22bn black hole" in the public purse, while drawing fire for their announced scrapping of winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners. Meanwhile, on the week of the Programme for Government, the SNP Scottish Government have announced £500m of cuts too, citing public sector pay deals and "prolonged" austerity from Westminster as part of the problem. The team try to cut through the blame-game to find out what these cuts and potential rejigging of priorities mean for Scotland and the UK, as the UK and Scottish Tory leadership contests continue, and all parties eye up the 2026 Holyrood election.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.4	You're listening to BBC Scotland
0:09.7	Hi, you're listening to PODytical BBC Scotland's podcast
0:15.7	that brings you the biggest stories coming out of Holyroods and Westminster.
0:19.4	It is nine minutes past two on Thursday the 5th of September.
0:23.4	I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow and today I'm joined by. I'm Roger Sipundeeb
0:28.1	Sunday, a journalist based in Westminster. And I'm Phil Sim, a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament.
0:32.8	Hello to all you journalists based everywhere. Welcome back from summer. How was your holiday?
0:39.0	Say welcome back.
0:39.9	We did a podcast about three weeks ago, didn't we?
0:42.7	It was quite short, wasn't it?
0:44.2	The election really curtailed the summer in the end.
0:47.1	But talk to me about it.
0:48.6	What have you guys been up to, non-politics-wise?
0:51.4	Pottering about, going on a staycation and actually quite enjoying the weather.
0:55.8	The weather was good this summer.
0:57.5	Rajdeep, don't talk to us anymore.
0:58.9	Sorry.
0:59.5	Because you've obviously...
1:01.1	Can we just fade down her microphone at this point?
1:03.2	...perience a different weather.
1:04.7	Not been living underneath a waterfall as we have been for the past ones.
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