Description

Scottish Labour Deputy Leader, Dame Jackie Baillie, joins Bernard and Alex in the Press Bar to discuss:

• Scots are paying too much tax for failing services
• Her admiration of the SNP's Kate Forbes
• Her belief that the NHS is broken
• Why she'd like to be Health and Social Care Minister if Labour are elected in Scotland.
• Her early life in Hong Kong and her Portuguese family
• Why Margaret Thatcher motivated her to get into politics.
• Her fear of Labour complacency in the run up to the 2026 election

Focussing on UK, Scottish and Global politics, if you like other great political podcasts like The Rest is Politics, The News Agents, Newscast, Questions Time, Holyrood Sources, Planet Holyrood, The Stooshie, The Steamie, Scotcast, Americast etc etc then The Ponsonby and Massie Podcast could be a great show to add to your list of favourites.

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