Calum Macdonald
@CalumAM
@timesradio Breakfast 6-10am, Fri-Sun | @whitehallsource / @holyroodsources podcasts | Member # 1, Times Radio Early Breakfast Club / [email protected]
🗣️ “Yes, you sometimes have to humiliate yourself a little bit for Trump… but if it gets us a better deal, it’s worth it.” 🆕From Trump’s visit to social unrest to why Scotland can’t build... 🎧📺 Stream now 👉 holyroodsources.com/listen @CalumAM | @akmaciver | @geoffaberdein
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“The Tories have completely lost their way. I’m inherently a Tory, but not at the moment.” The Conservative Party needs a new leader with a “bigger profile” instead of someone who is “hiding in the background”, says Antony Worrall Thompson. @KaitBorsay | @CalumAM
“The police will facilitate a democratic protest, but anything at all that endangers the safety of the president… will be clamped down on quite heavily.” 6,000 UK police stationed in Scotland to protect Trump from expected protests, says John Boothman. @CalumAM | @KaitBorsay
🆕“He’ll hurt your First Minister” Anthony @Scaramucci warns Scotland's First Minister John Swinney not to get too close to President Trump. 🎧The full episode is streaming now. @CalumAM | @geoffaberdein | @akmaciver
“The pressure on all sides is so big that he will probably end up having to do it.” Keir Starmer is “quite likely” to formally recognise Palestinian statehood, says The Times’s political editor @Steven_Swinford.
Counselling psychologist Dr Vincent Graff joins Husain Husaini, presenting for the first time, to discuss what happens to your brain when trying new things. "My guess is the reason you were a bit worried about how it went today, is because it matters to you." @husainhusaini
“We believe that the UK needs to get back involved, get back at the table.” Chair of the foreign affairs select committee, Dame @EmilyThornberry, tells #TimesRadio the UK needs to put together a "long-term solution" to recognise the state of Palestine. @CalumAM | @KaitBorsay
Resident doctors "should get to work" and "bank" the 28.9 per cent pay offer and stop "wrecking the progress" the government has made, says secretary of state for science, innovation and technology @PeterKyle. @KaitBorsay | @CalumAM | #TimesRadio
“Imagine a Middle East without the problem of Palestine,” says Emily Thornberry @TimesRadio Breakfast as she confirms she’s signed a letter urging the recognition of a Palestinian State as part of a peace process.
Emily Thornberry tells Times Radio Breakfast she has signed the letter
EXCL: MPs are planning to publish a mass cross-party letter this afternoon demanding Keir Starmer recognize a Palestinian state. It is led by Development Committee Chair Sarah Champion and should be more extensive than a letter by 59 Labour MPs two weeks ago. More in Playbook
Hello from me and him @CalumAM. This morning @TimesRadio: 👩⚕️The junior docs strike is underway, but how many will defy it and turn up for work? 🇫🇷 France will recognise a Palestinian state, will the UK follow? 🏴And Donald Trump flies into Scotland for some golf diplomacy.
. @TimesRadio Breakfast, Friday from 6am: * France will recognise a Palestinian state, Emmanuel Macron says... Sir Keir Starmer has a call with him. * We speak to Resident Doctors live from their picket line as the strike begins * President Trump comes to Scotland. Na night.
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🔴Another week, another hat trick of the best political insight you’ll find anywhere on any podcast with political insiders who know what they’re talking about. Whitehall Sources assess Kemi Badenoch’s reshuffle… Holyrood Sources anticipates the arrival of President Trump to…
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Hang on, now Jeremy Corbyn’s team say Your Party is an ‘interim name’. Not the clearest of launches.