Labour Landslide (General Election 2024)
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Labour sees a landslide general election victory, what's next for Scotland? While Keir Starmer's Labour celebrated massive gains, and the Lib Dems saw a comeback, it was a punishing night for the Tories and the SNP. As the parties reflect on the results, and Labour prepares for Government, the team discuss the big moments of the night, and ask what the election tells us about the political landscape now, and what does the result mean for Scotland as it looks to the 2026 Holyrood elections?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.0 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:10.0 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast that brings you an inside look at the big stories |
| 0:18.0 | coming out of Holyroods and Westminster. |
| 0:20.0 | It is 10 minutes past |
| 0:21.5 | 11 on Friday the 5th of July. I'm Lucy White, I'm in Glasgow today and with me is... |
| 0:28.6 | I'm Phil Simm, I'm in Glasgow and time has lost all meaning. |
| 0:31.6 | And I'm Rysip Sandu, a journalist in Westminster. And it is the morning of the day after the election. |
| 0:40.9 | We have a new Prime Minister. |
| 0:43.5 | That sounds like you got up early. |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah, we're all mega tired here. |
| 0:47.9 | We're not going to lie. |
| 0:49.2 | So we're going to start by talking about sleep, |
| 0:51.4 | which is one of our favourite topics, |
| 0:52.7 | and they will get on to the actual politics. Phil hasn't had any, is that right? I had a brief nap on Thursday |
| 0:59.8 | afternoon at one point. Okay. Right. Does the napping make it worse? Probably, yeah. I think |
| 1:06.2 | the napping does make it worse. I think having a baby has trained me for this. Yeah, |
| 1:10.2 | like sleep is a foreign concept. I was in, baby has trained me for this. Yeah. Like sleep is a foreign concept. |
| 1:12.9 | I was in kind of in the middle of the night, so I had, I slept between the hours of 11pm and 1am, which is, you know, a real good, healthy stretch. |
| 1:23.2 | And Rajdeep, you are the cavalry, though. |
| 1:26.5 | You're coming in fresh today, fresh ish fresh ish because |
| 1:30.2 | I do have a toddler who work up multiple times in the night so I was a big politics fan just |
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