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Join Calum Macdonald, Geoff Aberdein and Andy Maciver for a Holyrood Sources podcast special. We’re bringing together guests who have been at the heart of the story of devolution over the last 25 years to reflect on how devolution happened, what’s happened since and what should happen next. As part of the night, we’ll reveal the results of exclusive polling assessing how people across Scotland view devolution, 25 years since the establishment of The Scottish Parliament.

In part one:

Fergus Ewing,

Wendy Alexander,

Henry McLeish,

Jim Wallace,

Lorraine Davidson

Jack McConnell,

Mark Diffley,

Nicola McEwen

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The UK government has blocked Scottish gender recognition reforms, which would allow anyone over the age of 16 to self-declare their gender and be recognised as such by the Scottish government. 

The Scottish government argues its legislation would merely update and improve the legal situation in Scotland for transgender people. But the UK government says this is not true, and that the Scottish legislation would have a profound impact on UK-wide equalities law. We examine the debate and the constitutional row that has ensued.

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Guest: Mark McLaughlin, Political Correspondent, The Times. 

Host: Manveen Rana.

Clips: BBC News, The Scottish Sun, Guardian, Channel 4 News, 5 News, ITV.

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