Summary
The team dissect the weekend's Labour conference, and Douglas Ross' final FMQs. After delegates met in Liverpool, have we learnt more about what Labour will deliver? Have they managed to reframe the gloomy economic outlook as a message of hope? Rajdeep shares her experience at conference, and talks about the mood on the ground with the Scottish MPs. Also, the Scottish Conservative leadership contest is reaching its conclusion, and Douglas Ross takes part in his final FMQs as opposition leader. What does new leadership hold for the party, as Holyrood eyes up the 2026 election?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.6 | Hi, you're listening to |
| 0:14.0 | Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.9 | that brings you the biggest stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster |
| 0:18.9 | It is 12 minutes past two. On Thursday the 26th of |
| 0:23.1 | September, I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow and today I'm joined by. I'm Raj |
| 0:28.4 | Shoebs Sandu, a journalist usually based in Westminster but currently in my house. And I'm Phil Sim, |
| 0:33.0 | a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament. 12 minutes past. |
| 0:39.7 | You can tell me mucking about before we start recording. |
| 0:42.6 | We've been having a bit of off-air chat. |
| 0:47.0 | Radisdip, you are at home because you've been away this week. |
| 0:48.9 | You were at the Labour Conference. |
| 0:49.5 | What was it like? |
| 0:52.7 | It was really different to previous Labour conferences, obviously. |
| 0:56.5 | Now they are party of government. And it really had a different air to it. |
| 1:04.0 | Like, I think a lot of it was kind of party members just like coming together and celebrating the achievement that they had at the last election. |
| 1:10.3 | Because for a lot of people, they obviously wouldn't have had that moment altogether in the same space. |
| 1:12.5 | So there was that side to it. |
| 1:18.8 | But of course, we went into the conference with a lot of bad headlines for the leadership around donations, pay rows, winter fuel payment, you know, quite a lot of negativity going in, |
| 1:25.8 | given that we're only kind of like two, three |
| 1:27.8 | months into this new government, a bit of a strange place to be. And of course, off the back |
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