National editor Callum Baird with Paul Kavanagh and the Wee Ginger Dug
PAUL Kavanagh is joined by National editor Callum Baird for our latest Wee Ginger Dugcast.
There are plenty of big questions to deal with this week.
The Prime Minister has managed to keep her Cabinet together, but will she have any luck getting the Brexit extension she wants?
Is Jeremy Corbyn walking straight into Theresa May's Brexit trap? If we can all see it coming, why can't the Labour leader?
With all this lack of clarity, how is it impacting on the timing of a second independence referendum for Scotland?
Also on the agenda is the topic of sectarianism in Scotland and segregated schools.
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Callum Baird, Editor of The National
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