Snap! (General Election 2024)

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called a snap election. What's next for Scotland? Following a day of febrile speculation, and despite it feeling like campaigning had already started months ago, the Prime Minister has officially announced a general election for July 4th. As parties throw themselves onto the campaign trail in earnest, the team explain what the mood was like on the ground on the day of the announcement, how the next weeks might unfold, what to watch, and what strategising might be going on inside political parties right now on how they'll sell themselves in Scotland. What might the Scottish political landscape look like post-election?

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.4	You're listening to BBC Scotland
0:09.8	Hi, you're listening to
0:14.2	Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast
0:16.1	that brings you an inside look at the big stories
0:18.4	coming out of Holyrood and Westminster.
0:24.6	23 minutes past two on Thursday the 23rd of May. I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow and today I'm joined by
0:28.6	Hello, I'm Rajdeep Sundu, a correspondent based in Westminster.
0:32.6	And I'm Phil Sim, a political correspondent based
0:35.6	usually the Scottish Parliament, currently on a very rainy street in Leith.
0:40.8	Radge Deep and Phil, first of all, welcome back to both of you.
0:45.5	Thank you.
0:46.2	Thank you.
0:47.1	I know. It's so exciting. It's just some kind of like sonar that goes out when there's an election that just brings all the political journalists
0:54.3	back in again from their various places.
0:57.9	We couldn't possibly tell you that, Lucy. That is like a state secret.
1:01.6	But...
1:01.9	Sonar is right, because I'm currently underwater.
1:05.1	I wish you seen that yesterday.
1:07.2	We're going to talk about that in just a minute exactly where you're coming from, Phil.
1:12.1	But lovely to have you both back.
1:14.6	I'm impeccable timing.
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