Summary
The team talk conference contentment, the national care service, and Taylor Swift. Why did the Conservatives seem so upbeat during the Birmingham conference? Why is the Labour donations row still dominating the news cycle several weeks in? Podlitical discusses the week's news, including Prime Minister Starmer returning £6k in gifts following a continuing row over donations, the new Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay settling into the role, and the unusually upbeat Conservative Conference for a party who just faced defeat in the General Election. Also, what's happening with the national care service in Scotland after local authorities voted to withdraw support?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.0 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.4 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.7 | That brings you the biggest stories coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:18.8 | It's eight minutes past two Thursday the third of |
| 0:21.8 | October. I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow. And today I'm joined by. I'm Phil Sim, a journalist |
| 0:27.2 | based at the Scottish Parliament. I'm Rajee Psyndu, a journalist based in Westminster. I've been |
| 0:32.3 | in Birmingham this week and currently I'm in my house. Okay, she's been everywhere. |
| 0:36.6 | A tour. The Rajdeep Tour is concluding. |
| 0:39.6 | I just imagined you like as a little, |
| 0:41.7 | this is a bit of a window into my mind, |
| 0:43.6 | as a little like avatar on a map there like dotting around the country. |
| 0:46.8 | Where will Radshdeep go next? |
| 0:48.4 | We can start with Brighton, Liverpool, Birmingham, Westminster. |
| 0:53.9 | She's been everywhere. |
| 0:55.1 | So you're in Birmingham for the Conservative Party Conference. |
| 0:59.7 | What was it like? |
| 1:00.5 | Yes. |
| 1:01.7 | So I got there for the last few days. |
| 1:04.0 | I wasn't there for the whole time. |
| 1:05.2 | But, you know, I was really expecting it to be quite miserable, if I'm honest. |
| 1:09.1 | Like the weather was quite miserable. |
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