Interview: Alex Salmond, Alba (General Election 2024)

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Martin Geissler sits down with Alba leader Alex Salmond. Alba claim to offer a different vision for Scottish independence, and hope to hoover up some of the pro-independence vote from the SNP and Scottish Green, but they've yet to have a representative elected under their banner. Will this election be the one? In this audio version of the BBC Scotland Sunday Show interview, Martin asks Salmond about his strategy for getting independence, if he has any concerns about splitting the pro-independence vote, and how he thinks Scotland will fare in the Euros.

Part of a series of interviews with party leaders over the course of the general election campaign. To hear them all, subscribe to Podlitical on BBC Sounds, or tune in to the Sunday Show every Sunday from 10am on BBC One Scotland and Radio Scotland.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds.
0:08.0	You're listening to BBC Scotland.
0:13.0	Hi, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's politics podcast.
0:17.8	I'm Martin Geisler, a presenter based in Glasgow, and I'm the host of the Sunday show,
0:22.4	where I've been interviewing the party leaders who want your vote in the general election on July
0:26.9	the 4th. So, how are they planning to get it? Alaba claimed to offer a different vision for
0:32.6	Scottish independence. They hope to hoover up some of the Indy vote from the SNP and the Scottish Greens,
0:38.7	but they've yet to have a representative elected under their banner.
0:41.8	Will this election be the one?
0:43.9	Today I've been speaking to Alapel leader Alex Salmond.
0:47.1	I asked him about his strategy for getting independence.
0:50.1	If he has any concerns about splitting the pro-Indy vote,
0:53.1	perhaps letting unionist parties in,
0:55.5	and how he thinks Scotland will get on in the Euros.
1:00.2	Alex Salmond is with me here in the studio. Good morning.
1:02.8	Good morning.
1:04.3	You're not going to be elected because you're not standing. Why?
1:07.2	Because I'm setting my sights on the Scottish Parliament in two years' time.
1:14.9	And in terms of other folk get elected, I think we've got excellent chances in a number of seats but let me on that debate next Tuesday and I thought will increase allopous chances
1:19.1	will it okay we'll see I'll tell you who could be elected as Douglas Ross and he could be
1:22.7	your MP where you are in a very last minute change of arrangements.
1:28.0	Would you have stood against them if you'd known that was what was going to happen?
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