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In this edition of the podcast we welcome Les Huckfield as our special guest.Les, a former Labour MP, government minister,and MEP is now a supporter of Scottish independence.
As well as finding out why he made that political journey we use his expertise and insight into Westminster to ask him to disentangle the Tory power surge spin ,what lies behind the power grab, and try and discover just what the Scottish government and SNP MPs can do to counteract it.
However we begin with our instant reactions to the release, finally, of the Russia Report. All the media have been trailing the alleged Russian interference into the independence referendum in 2014. We examine that element, but there's definitely a lot more to the report than that.
Along the way we chat Triumph motor cycles,compare academic qualifications(I don't do well) and pay tribute to the late, great Jack Charlton.