Stephen Flynn

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

At 34 years old he's the SNP's youngest ever leader in Westminster, moving at breakneck speed from supermarket checkout boy to Rishi Sunak's political adversary at PMQs. With Nicola Sturgeon's shock resignation and continuing investigation into the party's finances, he picks up the mantle during a turbulent time for the independence movement. But Flynn seems cool and collected about the task ahead. He speaks to James about his background and explains how having a disability inadvertently led him to the Commons.

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0:32.1	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:49.9	Music Global Player Original Podcast Hello and welcome to full disclosure. A podcast project designed, well, entirely really, to let me spend more time than I'd
0:54.5	go on the radio show with people that I find interesting.
0:58.1	And this week's guest, Stephen Flynn, the leader of the Scottish National Party in the House of Commons,
1:04.4	is someone about whom I don't know much, which presumably, given that your rise has been fairly meteoric,
1:10.2	is something you quite often have pointed out to you.
1:13.2	Occasionally. I think it took a lot of folk by surprise. It probably took me by surprise a wee bit as well.
1:20.6	There's not many folk with my particular background grown up in Dundee and in a wee place called Breakin and Angus who moves up to Aberdeen
1:30.3	finds himself as a local councillor age 25 26 becomes a group leader on a local authority and then gets himself elected to Westminster and
1:39.3	in 2019 not that long ago at all although it feels like a lifetime ago.
1:44.6	Yeah.
1:44.9	Well, it is.
1:45.9	Several political lifetime.
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