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Episode 32 - Unspun Live: Scottish Greens’ youngest Holyrood hopeful on poverty, power and protest

from Unspun Live · host The Herald Politics Team

With less than three months to go until the Holyrood election, Unspun Live speaks to Iris Duane, the Scottish Greens’ 23-year-old candidate for Glasgow Kelvin and Maryhill, who could become the youngest MSP in the next Scottish Parliament.Duane talks candidly about growing up in poverty, why she believes both the SNP and Labour have run out of ideas, and why tackling child poverty would be her top priority if elected. She also discusses council funding, taxation, the Scottish Child Payment, and what she sees as the limits of devolution.The conversation also explores representation and identity in politics, barriers facing trans people in Scotland, and whether the Greens would consider working with the SNP again after the collapse of the Bute House Agreement.

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