Interview: Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes

Podlitical

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Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Podlitical sits down with Scotland's Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes to talk budgets. Kate Forbes, the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Gaelic, and MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, chats with Podlitical following Labour's first budget in 14 years, discussing how she and the SNP-led Scottish Government feel it's a "step in the right direction" but worries for Scotland's pensioners, farmers, and the feeling of "betrayal" within the whisky sector. Forbes lays out how the SNP "took on the chin" the general election result, and how the minority SNP Government look to pass legislation like the Scottish Budget by "governing from the mainstream" and building consensus around plans such as a National Care Service. Plus, is she staying up to watch the US election results come in?

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.4	You're listening to BBC Scotland
0:10.0	Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast
0:15.8	that brings you the biggest stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster.
0:20.0	It's just after half-past one on Tuesday
0:22.5	the 5th of November. I'm David Wallace Lockhart, a political correspondent based in Hollywood.
0:28.6	And following Labour's budget last week, we're joined by the Deputy First Minister of Scotland,
0:33.0	Kate Forbes, who's also, of course, the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Gallic.
0:38.0	Kate Forbes, thank you very much for joining us.
0:39.9	Thank you for having me.
0:40.8	How are you enjoying your new...
0:42.4	Is it still a new job?
0:43.6	I don't know.
0:44.0	I think it's relatively still new.
0:46.4	May doesn't seem that long ago, does it?
0:48.1	It seems a lifetime ago, I think.
0:49.5	Well, that's also true.
0:50.5	How much has changed since then. Do you know, I absolutely love the substance of my portfolio.
0:58.2	The work I'm doing on Gallic, which perhaps gets overlooked, but the work I'm doing more generally
1:04.2	on the economy, attracting investment, trying to problem solve all the blockages there might be,
1:09.7	as well as support the First Minister in my deputy role.
1:13.1	I really enjoy it.
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