Optics, Opportunity, and Offers (General Election 2024)
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The Scottish Tory leader announces his resignation, the first manifestos launch, and more. Following the bombshell news that Scottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross is intending to resign that role after the general election, the team discuss how this might effect campaigning, how parties may use the news in the upcoming Scottish leaders debate, and what it means for Holyrood on July 5th. What other plans have parties made ahead of the debate? As the first manifestos begin to appear, with more on the way, the team analyses another week on the campaign trail, including where the parties are in terms of pledges and optics, the latest campaign stunts, and Phil recalls the time he nearly jumped out of a plane with the Lib Dems.
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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 Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast that brings you an inside look |
| 0:17.0 | at the big stories coming out of Hoderood and Westminster. |
| 0:19.7 | It is 20 to 11 on Tuesday, |
| 0:22.1 | the 11th of June. I'm Phil Sim, a journalist normally based at the Scottish Parliament, |
| 0:26.3 | and today I'm joined by David Wallace Locker, political correspondent. Who's in Glasgow today? |
| 0:32.0 | And, Rarice, Sundew, a Westminster journalist person. I'm going to do that again. No, I actually like that. Leave it in. Can I do that again? |
| 0:38.3 | No, I actually like that as a description of your name. |
| 0:42.3 | That is your identity now. |
| 0:44.3 | Oh God. |
| 0:45.3 | Thanks. |
| 0:46.3 | You can see it again if you want, but I think we get the picture. |
| 0:49.3 | Hello, I'm Marceup Sundy, a journalist based in Westminster. |
| 0:53.3 | Good. It had already been a bit of a rollercoaster this election campaign, but it's turning |
| 0:58.4 | into that one at Alton Towers, where there's like 13 looped loops on it. |
| 1:02.4 | Last week, we had the news that Douglas Ross had made this last minute decision to stand |
| 1:07.5 | for the election after all. You turned on his previous decision to just be an |
| 1:11.2 | MSP. And there's all this speculation about how that was going to go down with his colleagues |
| 1:15.1 | at Holyrood. And not very well, it would appear to be the answer, because he has now announced |
| 1:19.8 | that he is stepping down as Scottish Tory leader after the election. David, what on earth |
| 1:25.6 | has gone on here? So, obviously the Scottish Conservatives made the decision last week to drop David |
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