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Mar 2023
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Show 307 - Ash Regan

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In the second SNP Leadership Special, Ash Regan outlines her plan to deliver independence as well as her plans to change the SNP. It's a candid conversation in which Ash also shares her concerns about how the contest is being run. Does her leadership campaign prove that SNP members who were once gradualists are becoming more fundamentalist? Would Ash keep the coalition with the Scottish Greens? Also, this is a conversation about how life turns out, and how things might have been different for Ash. If she'd continued living in England, would she even be in politics at all? And what do her children make of her campaign to run the country? It's a fascinating hour with someone determined to take Scotland in a different direction. 

 

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Forthcoming guests include:

20 March: Krishnan Guru-Murthy

3 April: Ruth Davidson

17 April: Jess Phillips

22 May: David Blunkett

5 June: Philip Hammond

 

Plus more to be announced! 

 

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