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Phil Sim

Phil Sim

Political correspondent for BBC Scotland based at Holyrood since 2015, host of the Scotcast podcast and formerly Podlitical.

Oct 21, 2026

Rajdeep SandhuCORRESPONDENT
14:10
Yes, please enlighten us.
14:12
So, yes, and probably I once did a TikTok about this, which did not take off.
14:16
I was not offered any endorsements or sponsorships off the back of it.
14:21
Yeah, so each day they calculate.
14:23
So there's a next day market and there's a more sort of speed market.
14:26
But basically, they work at it.
14:27
Tomorrow, the UK is going to need, say... 100 units of energy and they line up all of the providers based on who's offering the cheapest prices so you say okay renewables they can offer us 70 units of energy at 5p a unit these are all completely made up numbers um so you still need more energy so you go to nuclear they can do you 20 units at 10p a unit right you still need 10 more units to make up the amount of energy you need So then you have to go to gas and they're charging you 20p a unit.

5 MINS LATER

20:03
Phil, talking of parties who are not completely at one over this, parties who are wrestling with this and wrangling to try and get a position, tell me about the SNP's response to what's happened today.

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