06/05/2016 Reporting Scotland

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Welcome to a specially extended edition of Reporting Scotland,

as the country digests another SNP victory in the election.

Nicola Sturgeon heralds an historic third successive Government,

but the party falls short of an overall majority.

I feel very humbled by the trust the people across Scotland are putting

in the SNP. I am determined if the results developed the way I hope it

does that I am determined to govern this country in the interests of

everybody here. It was all smiles for

Ruth Davidson's Conservatives, who were the big winners

on the night, overhauling Labour as the main opposition

party at Holyrood. There are people right across

Scotland who are sending the SNP a message. There are voices and the

decision we made as a country won't be ignored.

Labour's Kezia Dugdale says it was her party's tactics that lost

votes but, despite that, she won't be standing down.

I know that for some the constitutional argument remains the

most important factor when casting their vote, and my determination to

try and move the Scottish debate on well have cost me and my party votes

tonight. And the Greens overtake the Lib Dems

to become Holyrood's fourth party. We'll be analysing the results

and speaking to a panel of leading members of the main parties

as the political landscape It's been a remarkable few years

in Scottish politics, but once again the election has

thrown up surprises. The SNP will form its third

successive Government but it won't have a majority

at Holyrood. Its main opposition will be

the Conservatives, who overtook Labour as the second-biggest party,

while the Greens ousted the Liberal Democrats

to take fourth place. The SNP won 63 seats,

two short of a majority. The Conservatives came second

with 31, more than doubling That pushed Labour into third

with 24, after the But it was a good night

for the Scottish Greens, who overtook the Lib Dems

as the fourth-biggest party, In a moment, we'll be looking

in more detail at the results, but first Catriona Renton looks back

at the night's events. It was never really a question of if

the SNP would win the most seats, just how many would they take?

The Scottish Parliament as a member...

What is now beyond doubt is that the SNP has won a third consecutive

Scottish Parliament election. That has never been done before in the

history of the Scottish Parliament. But it was not this success that was

predicted. As ballot boxes were brought in by land, sea and air, and

the counting started in earnest, faces told a story. Labour, once the

biggest party at Holyrood, so the writing on the wall.

Someone once described the 1983 manifesto as the longest suicide

note in history but the manifesto stood on is self and elation for

dummies. But this smile tells that the real

comeback kids of this election are the Conservatives. As their leader

took Edinburgh Central from the SNP, she is now the face of the official

opposition. One thing we are learning as tonight

goes on is that there are people right across Scotland who are

sending the SNP a message. They are voices and the decision we made as a

country will not be ignored. Nowhere is that more evident than in

Edinburgh Central, where we are coming from fourth position.

In the shock of the night, they took eastwards, the incumbent Labour

knocked into third place. Like father like son, in Dumfriesshire,

Oliver is elected following in his father's footsteps. In contrast, the

night got worse for Labour, losing traditional heartlands like places

night got worse for Labour, losing in Fife, they were knocked out in

Glasgow, winning not a single first past the post seat. Kezia Dugdale

failed to win her own constituency but was elected on the list. She

announced she is not packing it in. I took over this job at challenging

times. From 41 MPs to just one MP. I said at the time I had a mission to

read you the Scottish Labour Party and had a plan. I asked my

colleagues to step angry with the five-year vision for the party and

they did so with 72% of the vote. I have a huge mandate to win this

party. Scottish Green Party...

The youngest MSP is 21 years old, and with six seats, Green Party have

overtaken the Liberal Democrats and are the fourth biggest party at

Holyrood. We have gained lament and profile

during this campaign and into the expertise and experience of getting

our campaigners and volunteers out there on a scale we have never seen

before. The Lib seemed happy with their

result and have the same number MSP 's as they went in with. But they

gained Edinburgh West and from the SNP and they are leader won his own

seat in Fife north-east. Two big wins from the SNB and this

election is a tremendous result and that is what we are pleased about.

There were no seat from Ukip in Scotland and for the first time

since 1999, no independence were elected. Perhaps this is not the

election result expected but with no outright majority for the SNP, there

will be deals to be done. Maybe Scottish politics just got even more

interesting. Well, let's take a look at how

the results have changed David Henderson can explain, using

the latest in computer graphics - or augmented reality,

as the boffins call it. It took all night to count the votes

cast in this election, but the result is now clear. Let's look

first at the 73 constituency seats. Here is our map of Scotland, with

huge amounts of yellow, the SNP who won the lion's share of seats, 59

spread throughout the country. There is also plenty of conservative blue.

They're in the South of Scotland but also here in Aberdeenshire West, and

in Edinburgh Central. The leader Ruth Davidson won the Edinburgh

Central seat. The Tories took seven constituencies including four new

wins. Meanwhile Labour took a hammering and lost 13 seats. They

were left with just three first past the post MSPs. The Lib Dems overtook

them with four, including a win for their leader, Willie Rennie, in

North East Fife. 56 MSP 's were also elected through the regional lists.

They were of course crucial to the outcome. Labour against 21 seats

that way. The Conservatives gained 24. The SNP gained just for this way

and the Green Party travelled to their tally of seats from the last

Parliament, finishing with six MSPs. So where does this leave Scotland's

main party leaders? Ukip, Bayer, with David Cockburn, failed to get

their first MSP. The Liberal Democrats held the Northern Isles

and gained a view seats elsewhere but their total is the same as it

was in the last Parliament will stop they have just five MSPs. Patrick

Harvie's Greens now overtake the Lib Dems as the Parliament's fourth

largest party with six seats. What support might they lend to the SNP

in order to allow Nicola Sturgeon to lead a minority Government? Kezia

Dugdale's Labour Party suffered heavy defeats. All but one of them

were in the central belt. They ended up with just 24 Anest Ps. That is 13

less than they had in the last Parliament. They have been overtaken

has the largest opposition party by Ruth Davidson's Conservatives. An

excellent result for them, finishing on 31 seats, more than twice as many

MSPs as they had in the last Parliament. Finally Nicola Sturgeon.

She is First Minister and again, with the SNP finishing with 63

seats, way in front of all challengers. Not quite enough to

secure an overall majority. She would have needed 65 MSPs for that.

Well, I'm joined in the studio now by:

Adam Tomkins, who is a newly elected Conservative MSP,

Pauline McNeill, who won a seat on the regional list

Lord Purvis of the Scottish Liberal Democrats,

and from Edinburgh, Alison Johnstone of

Also with me is Professor Ailsa Henderson from Edinburgh University

Alyn Smith, you have one and historic third term, a huge

achievement but you will be running a minority Government at Holyrood,

and it has been some time. It will take some getting used to.

This is the Scottish Parliament reverting back to what it was

designed to do, a proportional Parliament. It was designed that

everyone is a minority, so we have done a minority at ministration

before. -- administration. That worked well in the 2007-11 mandate

and we will do what we always do. Is that how you will tackle it this

time, issue by issue? Those discussions are underway and

we are working on the numbers following that. We will do what we

always do. We have our historic third term, with a big mandate for

Nicola Sturgeon. There are a lot of things we can cooperate with the

other parties with. Adam Tomkins, a successful night for

other parties with. the Conservatives. What is it down

to? A combination of two things. First

of all, that we lead the argument in terms of left- right politics and

were clear and consistent with a simple message that we did not want

Scotland to become the highest taxed simple message that we did not want

part of the UK and we let the argument, we we laid it on the

constitutional argument which has not gone away. I wish it had gone

away but it has not. We had a clear, consistent and simple message, led

by Ruth Davidson on both fronts, that we will oppose any second

independence referendum and want to see the result of the 2014

independence referendum having respect. What is so exciting about

the results we saw last night is this will be a strong Scottish

Parliament. A Parliament that is genuinely able to hold the

Nationalist administration to robust account. Alyn Smith is right that

the Scottish parliamentary system has corrected itself after the

hugely successful result that the SNP had five years ago. This is what

single chamber parliaments are supposed to do.

Do you foresee yourselves helping the SNP to get their budget through

eventually? Since the other three parties are in favour of tax rises.

We have been elected for a clearer job which is to lead the opposition

to the SNP. That was the core of our campaign.

Will you cooperate on areas... ? That was the core of our campaign on

tax and the economy, and the issue of the Constitution. We have been

elected to hold the SNP to account. Will you not be cooperating on the

budget? I think if the SNP want to deliver

the Conservative Party manifesto, we will find ourselves supporting that.

We will see what their budget proposals are but we have been

elected to lead the opposition to the SNP.

Pauline, beaten into third place by the Conservatives in Scotland. How

has it got bad? Is your analysis? Let me congratulate the SNP and the

Conservatives with a great result and no doubt that Labour's result is

worse than expected. We lost a lot of good people and experienced

people in Parliament. How to explain it? I think we should not rush to

judgment completely at this stage, that would be a mistake for a party

to do that. I agree with Kezia Dugdale, the leader, and Adam

Tomkins, that the constitutional question is still fundamentally a

defining moment. That is for the country. I think that Labour are

probably have to be clearer where it wants to position itself. It has

defined the space it wants to get into. All my adult little life I

believed in home rule for Scotland the benighted kingdom. I believed in

the savagery of the United people. the savagery of the United people.

-- sovereignty. Labour needs to find its feet more ambitiously and more

confidently on that spectrum. Kezia Dugdale has a difficult position as

leader and she will remain as leader. That is the position to

represent people in our party who voted yes. She has to represent them

and that is a difficult thing to do. Lastly, I think, to examine the

question of our policy, I think there has been a big consensus among

party members that for the first time we actually got it was a bold

manifesto, but... Thank you very much.

Pushed into fifth place, it is not a major recovery for the Lib Dems. I

was at the start of the broadcast when the polls closed, the opinion

polls suggested we could be wiped out. These are constituencies that

we held. They did not forecast what has happened, we have gained seats,

we have an anchor hold of constituencies on the mainland. In a

parliament of minorities, there is no difference between six and five

MSPs. We fought across constituencies. Our total vote was

far higher than the Green Party. Given where people were forecasting

us, Willie Rennie is enthusiastic, positive, enthusiastic, he has given

us a good platform to be a liberal, reformist opposition. I was on the

Finance committee for five years, every single one of the Conservative

members supported the SNP Budget. They have broadly the same position,

so this broad, Mission of low tax between the SNP and the

Conservatives will be fascinating. Six seats, best result ever for the

Green Party, what do you intend to do with your increased muscle in a

parliament where the SNP are just short of an overall majority? Result

ever, but we will work very constructively and mutually as we

always have done. -- second best result ever. We will make sure the

SNP to not carry out Tory policy, and we are pleased to be the fourth

biggest party in parliament. We have a lot to offer, we will keep the SNP

honest and make sure that they deliver the radical policies that

will bring about transformative change in Scotland. For example a

complete ban on fracking. We have disagreements on areas like air

passenger duty and taxation, but we are looking forward to playing

essential part in parliament in the next five years. There is a

pro-independence majority in the parliament, how keen are you at a

party on having a second referendum within this Parliament, if the SNP

decided that conditions were right as far as they were concerned and

wanted to call a second referendum? I don't think it is for the SNP or

any political party or politician to decide that conditions are right. It

is a matter for the Scottish people. If there were a citizens initiative,

perhaps petitioning Parliament, or if it became quite obvious that the

majority in Scotland favoured a second referendum, we would support

majority in Scotland favoured a that call. What is your picture that

you feel the electorate is producing for us in Scotland right now? What

are the main lessons and surprises? There are some lessons about

are the main lessons and surprises? tactics. There are examples of

tactics working well, the Conservative Party has managed to

navigate what is a crowded political space on the left and park out its

tent on the centre-right, but also on the fusion. There are lessons of

tactics that have not gone well. We know that Labour has problems in

terms of a perception of standing up for Scotland, voters not always

clear on what it is standing for at different times. There are some

surprises, I don't think we were expecting the leader effect that saw

Willie Rennie and Ruth Davidson capture constituency seats. The

extent to which both the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives have

returned to or arrived at a geographic base, that is a surprise.

There are further surprises to come, we won't get the results until we

have findings from the Scottish election study. But the extent to

which constitutional preference against economic preference has

mattered, the role of class needs to be looked at, but one important

finding is about the extent to which we might consider the legislative to

be more polarised than in the past. From the perspective of the

constitutional preferences, it might appear more polarised than before.

If we look at it from economic preferences, there is a centre/

centre-right Rafferty, with only a third of voters supporting parties

that promise to increase tax. There are lessons and challenges. We are

expecting Nicola Sturgeon to speak in the next half hour or so at the

house in Edinburgh. What can you tell us? The media are all come out

here, the cameras are pointing in one direction, at the door of Bute

house, the First Minister's official residence. We expect her shortly

after 2pm to make a short statement. We can expect her to reflect on the

results overnight, and perhaps some thoughts about the way forward for

her SNP minority Government. When Nicola Sturgeon joined the SNP 30

years ago, she could never have imagined herself now leading an SNP

Government in its third term in a Scottish parliament. This was a

clear victory for her party, despite expectations being very high, but

now we will hear some unifying thought about how the SNP can move

forward and work with the other parties over the next five years.

When she appears, we will bring you that live.

Let's see what the results look like up close on the Wall Of Truth

The map of largely yellow, yellow of the SNP, David Henderson showed it

you earlier on, how dominant they are across the country. It was like

this five years ago, slightly more impressive from their point of view

five years ago. They had already made a change. Let's go into more

detail. Across the central belt, it was

almost entirely red for Labour, and now you can see very little Labour

red left at all. This is the Dumbarton seat at Jackie Baillie has

held onto for Labour, partly because she thought a local campaign about

local hospitals, the health service and jobs associated with the nuclear

base. On the other side of the central belt, East Lothian, Iain

Gray, the former leader of the Labour Party held on to that seat.

There is a game for the Labour Party, they lost a lot of seats

across the central belt, 11 seats, but they gained one in Edinburgh

South. The same speed's seat that Iain Murray has for them in the

Westminster Parliament, the only seed that have in the Westminster

Parliament. Otherwise, the blue of the South. The Tories already had

representation in the South, extending into the central large

representation in the South, constituency of Dumfriesshire. And

holding onto seats they already had, winning in other parts of the

country. They already held Ar -- Ayr. This flatters the Conservatives

and the SNP a bit, because the ruble seats so much space. Each hexagon

represents a constituency. You get a much better sense of the kind of

Parliament that we are looking at in terms of constituency. The Labour

losses are the ones edged in red. There were also blue Tory seat being

picked up. You could see how few Labour seats there are left and how

dominant the SNP was right across the country. 56 of 129 seats were

elected by the list system, the SNP not doing well enough to get to a

majority. Let's have a look at the chamber. When they get to Holyrood

next week, the SNP remained very dominant across the middle, but not

with the majority they had five years ago. They needed 65 seats for

a majority. This is the main opposition party,

Ruth Davidson will ask the first question of Nicola Sturgeon. The

Green party larger than the Lib Dems. The smaller parties will get a

place on committees and the Parliamentary bureau. There will be

a different type of politics as the main party without a majority tries

to put together coalitions on shifting issues, rather than seeking

a firm coalition, such as we had in the first eight years of Hollywood.

We're expecting Nicola Sturgeon to speak in the next half hour

We had this response from Ruth Davidson.

One thing we are learning, there are people right across Scotland who are

sending the SNP a message. Their voices and the decision we made as a

country won't be ignored. Nowhere is that more evident than in Edinburgh

Central, we were coming from fourth position. It has been a in this

fight, there are some people I would like to thank. First and foremost,

my agent and our organiser. He is one of the most hard-working people

I have ever had the great joy to know within the Scottish

Conservative Party. I would like to thank our national team, my fellow

candidates in Edinburgh, we work this as a Lothian region. We will

have a better idea later tonight just how well or otherwise we as a

party have done. I cannot help's cannot thank those who have helped

me and our candidates enough. If I am I any small measure elected to be

the main opposition party, I promise that I would serve to the best of my

ability. It is a role I take seriously. To the people I have just

been elected to serve, this is the seat I was born in and educated in,

been elected to serve, this is the that I live in and work in. It is

the seat I hope to serve for many years to come. Thank you very much.

In the past hour the Prime Minister has been giving his reaction

to the election results across the UK and he congratulated

Ruth Davidson on the Conseratives success in Scotland.

I think these elections tell us something else as well,

and that is that the Labour Party have completely lost touch

with the hard-working people they are supposed to represent.

I think what these elections show is that where we are

a united, mainstream, one nation, with a passionate

Conservative Party, we can win, we can serve our country

and our communities and we can deliver the things

Nowhere is that more the case and with those remarkable results

Let us pay huge tribute to Ruth Davidson, and the extraordinary

campaign that she has run with those absolutely stunning results,

which see the Conservative Party, for the first time in a very long

time, to be the official opposition in the Scottish Parliament.

It was a great result and she deserved it.

After the declaration at her count in Edinburgh,

the Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale gave her reaction

I congratulate Nicola Sturgeon on her victory this evening and on

securing a third term in office. I promise Labour will be an effective

but positive opposition over the coming years. This election was

always going to be tough for the Scottish Labour Party. Just a year

after a painful general election defeat. I am proud that our campaign

rose to the challenge of offering an defeat. I am proud that our campaign

alternative vision for what could be done in our new, more powerful

Parliament. I want to thank all of those who voted for my party across

the country, all the people who volunteered and, of course, to all

of our candidates. Your support means the world to me. I know that

any disappointment felt by my colleagues and friends who have lost

tonight is secondary to the concern they feel about the impact of the

cuts yet to come and the continued austerity that working people across

Scotland will face. For our part, Labour in the new parliament led by

me will do as we promised in this Labour in the new parliament led by

election. We will fight to ensure the Parliament uses its new powers

and fulfils its great potential. I was adamant I would fight this as an

election about the future, talking about the potential for change.

Using the powers of our new parliament to deliver that change in

stead of rerunning the arguments of the past. It -- for some, the

constitutional argument remains the most important factor when casting

their vote, and my determination to move the debate on will have cost me

and my party votes tonight. But in the long run, I believe our politics

has to be about the future of our economy, the life chances of the

children in this country and our public services, and I and my party

will continue to make that argument in our new parliament.

You're watching a Reporting Scotland Holyrood election special.

An emphatic third victory for the SNP but they fall short

I feel very humbled by the trust the people across Scotland

I am determined if the results developed the way I hope it does

that I am determined to govern this country in the interests

And the Conservatives celebrate becoming the biggest opposition

There are people right across Scotland who are

Their voices and the decision we made as a country won't be ignored.

We're going over to the First Minister's official residence now -

Bute House in Edinburgh - where we're expecting to hear

While we wait for her to come forward, let me have a quick word

with our panel. Alyn Smith, what signal have you been sent by the

electorate about their enthusiasm or otherwise for a second referendum

within this next Parliament? There is an awful lot of numbers we

need to crunch to work that out. It was front and centre in our campaign

for Nicola to have a mandate, and the fact we have won more seats than

Tories, Labour and Lib Dems combined is a spectacular achievement nine

years into our Administration. This is a great endorsement of what the

SNP has been doing. The SNP were talking a lot in the

final days of the campaign about the likelihood of a second referendum. I

will ask Thompkins what you think. The electorate has been sent a

message... The SNP has no mandate for a second

independence referendum, because there was no commitment to hold a

second independence referendum in its manifesto. There is no appetite

in Scotland, it seems to me, for a second independence referendum, and

there will not be won in the lifetime of this Parliament, for the

reason that we do not have a majority SNP Government and we don't

have a Government of any description that was elected on a manifesto

have a Government of any description commitment to hold a second

independence referendum. Sorry to interrupt you but Nicola

Sturgeon is coming forward at Bute House.

Thank you for joining me here on this sunny afternoon, the day after

a momentous election victory for the SNP. Yesterday, the SNP made

history. We became the first party to win a third consecutive Scottish

Parliament election and secure a third term in office. We won the

highest share of the constituency vote and the largest number of

constituency seats ever achieved in a Scottish Parliament election. We

are the very first party in the era of devolution to Paul Morgan 1

million votes in constituencies across our country. -- poll. The

people of Scotland once again placed their trust in the SNP to govern our

country. We won a clear and unequivocal mandate and I secured

the personal mandate I sought to implement the bold and ambitious

programme of Government that I asked the country to vote for. I can

confirm that when it reconvenes in the coming days, I will ask the

Scottish Parliament to formally re-elect me as the First Minister of

Scotland. It will bend the my intention to form and to lead an SNP

Government. With such a large group of NSPs elected, I don't intend to

see any formal arrangement -- MSPs. With any other parties. However, the

Government lead will be an inclusive Government. It will be firm on our

determination to deliver on the commitment we made to the Scottish

people, but it will also reach out and seek to work with others across

the Parliament, to find common and seek to work with others across

ground and build consensus. Election campaigns inevitably focus on

differences and on dividing lines. But I believe that if we choose to

find it, there is common ground, plenty of it, to build on. I made

clear in this election that education will be the defining and

driving priority of my tenure as First Minister. I expected to be

judged on that. I reiterate that commitment today. Education is my

passion and my priority and because of that I was heartened that all

parties chose to put a clear focus on it. I hope we can put party

differences aside and work together. Ensuring opportunities for all of

our young people, regardless of their backgrounds or their family

circumstances, is a cause that should and must unite, not divide us

over the next five years. There is also a considerable agreement on

stepping up our ambition to tackle limit change and protect our

environment, and in putting in support for innovation at the heart

of our efforts to transform the productivity of the Scottish

economy. Of course, the SNP's determination to use new powers to

mitigate austerity, invest in our public services and build a social

security system based on the principles of dignity and respect,

is, with perhaps one exception, shared by other parties in our

Parliament. So, the Government I lead will reach out. We will govern

with conviction, with ambition and with determination, but also with

humility and a willingness to listen and to learn from the ideas of

others. On the question of independence, let me say this. The

SNP will always make our case with passion, with patients and with

respect, but our aim is to persuade, not to divide. -- patience. We will

always respect the opinion of the people, now and in the future, and

we simply ask that other hearties do likewise. You know, it is the

greatest privilege imaginable to be elected as the First Minister of our

country. To those who voted for me and for the SNP yesterday, thank you

from the very bottom of my heart. You have given me a precious

opportunity to change this country for the better, and I promised to

seize that opportunity with both hands. To those who did not vote for

me, I promise you that I will never stop striving to earn your trust and

your support. Like all politicians, I am passionate, very passionate,

about the ideals I believe in. But, as First Minister, I know that I

have a duty to rise above party politics and to govern in the best

interests of all of our country. My pledge to days that I will always

seek to do that. Whatever your politics or your point of view, my

job is to serve you. I will always fight Scotland's coroner and I will

work every single day to make our country fairer, wealthier and

stronger. -- Scotland's corner. I relish the opportunities that this

next term of Parliament presents and I now look forward to very much,

after perhaps a view our's sleep, to getting on with the job. -- if you

are as' sleep. The SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon their

outside Bute House. Our reporter,

Shelley Jofre is there for us. There was Nicola Sturgeon reflecting

on her party's great success, momentous, she called it. An

historic third term in office. Throughout this campaign, which many

have referred to as presidential, Nicola Sturgeon repeated she was

seeking a mandate from voters to continue as First Minister. She said

she got back mandate and is going back to Parliament to ask to be made

First Minister, and she is not seeking to make any kind of formal

collection with any of the other parties. It was a unifying speech,

though. She talked about governing in the interests of everybody. 20 of

common ground. It looks like she is going to put education at the centre

of her plan for Government. -- plenty of common ground. On the

question of independence she says she will respect the opinion of the

Scottish people and hopes all the other parties will as well.

Thank you. Douglas, what did you take from

that? The mandate is what she was seeking

and it gives a burst of political capital. She starts with this huge

amount of political capital, especially as her former opponents

are now in a weak position, and she knows there are high expectations to

deliver, which she has encouraged. I expectations for education, no big

surprise she is putting that at the top of her agenda. Interesting when

she said no formal coalitions. We will work with the people around,

other things... She then listed the environment, which did not play a

big part in the debate, but perhaps caters to one particular party. The

Tories might like the part about improving the economy and mitigating

austerity, for Labour, so if you messages for parties she might reach

out to. The Lib Dems might be attracted by mitigation of austerity

as well. The next age we will hear, after she has had that sleep,

probably looking towards a reshaping of the Cabinet, with different

portfolios. Because of the extra tax powers, there will be a new Ministry

for finance, I think, recommended by independent experts. What I'm

hearing is a possibility that has been looked at, to get the education

brief but together with the economy, because in many ways they are

linked. That job will go to John Swinney if he is willing to take it

on. To focus on education, tied in with council reform, that is a big

Strand they will be talking about. Not necessarily changing boundaries

but putting pressure on councils to hand power down to unity councils

and some form of Morecambe unity based organisation -- more

community-based. Health is due for a lot of reform. They are talking

about pushing some procedures out into the community. Some getting

centralised and more rules for GPs and medical hubs. In the short-term,

they need to do something about the economy, because every day there are

more jobs being lost. We are going through a rough patch in terms of

the fallout from the oil and gas sector in particular. That is the

agenda. She set out some of it there today and over the weekend we will

hear more about that. Pauline McNeill, a unifying message.

We heartened by anything you heard there from your opponent? -- were

you? I was. I don't think it is a mandate

to govern. For Nicola Sturgeon to recognise that is important. Alyn

Smith made the point earlier that the parliament's make up was going

back to the way things were supposed to be, that the system was designed

not to give anyone... This is a good thing for everyone. If Nicola

Sturgeon says that education is one of her issues, I do think there is a

lot of scope for common ground, because if all of the political

parties you really believe in what we have all been saying in our

manifesto is about closing the gap in educational attainment, that

means we all have do help. You think Labour is ready to

approach these issues now with less tribalism than before?

I do. I have come here to be truthful and there is no point in

doing anything else. What I do think, however, is the interesting

thing for Labour, although it has been a bad night, ICS as forming

part of a left Alliance on certain issues. -- I see this happening. I

see ourselves as being part of the left. There are lots of areas where

we can work with the Greens and Liberal Democrats as well. There are

exciting prospects for Labour but I think she gave us a message. I don't

think she has a mandate for a referendum, but she has a mandate to

govern. That is what they will hold her to a count on.

One member of that left Alliance is sitting on our left. Welcome to Ross

Greer. You have won a seat for the Scottish Greens and you are aged 21.

Youngest ever MSP. Congratulations. Thank you.

How are you feeling? 30 hours in, I'm not sure if I am

feeling anything any more. We did not know our result up until 7:15am,

so it was a painful night, but it was worth it in the end. It feels

fantastic but more than anything else, like most other candidates, I

am desperate for a rest. We have our first meeting this afternoon because

the parliamentary arithmetic did not turn up the way we expected. We have

a meeting to think of how we work in this settlement in a minority

Government. The last minority Government 's 2007-11, worked well.

The SNP had to reach out to other parties for eight constructive

approach. I look forward to the opportunity to do that again.

What are your main aspirations in this next term as a green MSP? Word

you see your effort, and I would hope, your influence going?

We will see the most influential green group. We had seven MSPs when

it was a majority Government. This is the first time we have had a full

group, more than five, and a minority Government, so there is a

huge amount. We worked well in the last Parliament, we got a moratorium

on fracking, we can push it to a ban, we put pressure on rent

controls, we got them partially. We now want full national rent

controls. We pushed on foreign ownership of football clubs. We can

be a destructive party of opposition, but the first thing we

need to rattle with is the finances, tax and spend. We put forward a

manifesto about using the tax powers we have had to be a more progressive

country will stop tackling inequality but raising revenue for

public services. That is what we need to discuss and then we can look

at what else we want to do. This all comes back to finances, that is one

of the things we need to discuss. Just a word from you on the tax

spend, such a big issue during the campaign, what can you the juice

about that now? We know a fair bit from the polling. To what extent is

there support for raising all marine tax? Depending on how the question

is asked matters. Support is much higher if we mentioned public

services, which lower if you mention welfare benefits, and if we just

mention tax it is in the middle. Related to that, the issue of

whether people want their rates to be different from the rates in the

rest of the UK. We have consistent evidence of a majority support for

the same rates across Scotland and the rest of the UK. We have

inconsistent evidence in terms of how much people do want to pay more

tax than others in the rest of the UK. That is true of tax but also of

a bunch of other policy areas that are currently devolved, where there

is variation. People are often not comfortable with the notion of

variation in policy, unless they know they are not losing out from

it. Education again was what was focused on by Nicola Sturgeon there.

To what extent do you feel that there was a reflection in the vote

of the fact that it was perceived in some quarters that the ice had been

taken off the ball in that key area, as others, such as health, in the

last Parliament? If we can draw any conclusions, with the SNP getting

more seats than the Tories, Labour and Lib Dems combined, there is a

huge endorsement. The independence question is different. Nicola looked

for a mandate to govern in this election, with short of a majority,

in a proportional Parliament that fosters wind to stop a majority

happening. I would have been delighted with a majority, but we

can make a minority work, there is ample common ground. I sit on the

green group in the European Parliament, we can sit down with the

other parties. That is what people want to see, so there is ample

scope. The minority administration worked well from 2007 and delivered

and pave the way for us winning the majority. We will see how it works.

Nicola is clear that we will get on with it. There is a sense of the

problems facing Scotland really require solutions that bring the

parties together with a selection of the best of the ideas in a way that

the Parliament has not really done before. Are you up for that?

Absolutely, I am one of the least tribal politicians you will meet,

but it is amazing what you can get done if you don't mind who takes the

credit. On educational reform, which was a key point in the First

Minister's speech, there is no left alliance with regard to education

reform. There will be when it comes to hiking up tax, but educational

reform is not a left/ right issue, or it should not be. There are lots

of great ideas in the Scottish Conservatives manifesto which are

quite close to a number of things that the Green party has talked

about. I was interested in what Douglas said in the relationship

between educational reform and local Government reform. What we need to

think about in terms of education reform is not just Budget for

schools and how we will cope with 152,000 college places cut, but how

we organise education, which is an issue which we have not addressed in

the lifetime of the devolution so far. If Nicola Sturgeon wants to do

that, we will support her. A quick final thought from you in a moment,

but before then, the Some lovely sunshine across the

country this afternoon. Lovely blue skies up near Inverness. Elsewhere,

there is some cloud, the sun is hazy at times. The best of the sunshine

across the Highlands and Islands. Elsewhere is cloudy, but still

bright. In the south-west, despite the cloudy skies, perhaps up to 18.

It is cold or around the North Sea coast. Tonight it stays dry, but

there will be some mist and McGuinness around the East Coast.

Looking ahead towards the weekend, Saturday gets off to a cloudy, murky

start. In the West, that is where the best of the sunshine is, but it

is a fairly cloudy day, with showers developing. Shari rain arriving from

the south-west. The timing is open to doubt, but we are thinking late

afternoon. It will be caught on the to doubt, but we are thinking late

East Coast. One or two showers across the Highlands and Islands. As

we head through the rest of Saturday afternoon, into the evening, the

rain takes hold and works northwards. A cloudy, murky, damp

night, but it is clearing through at a pace, connected to this area of

low pressure. This day and murky conditions around the East coast,

but we are dragging up warm air from the south. For Sunday, with the wind

coming in off the North Sea, right on the east coast it will be chilly,

but further west, much warmer. One or two showers, but the sunshine

makes the temperatures get into the low 20s. Monday, sunshine, if

anything, the warmest spots are a touch warmer. 24 degrees are

possible at times. Looking forward into this next new

parliament, your priorities? We went into this saying that if we want to

build a better country, it needs to be a bold using the powers it has to

stop austerity, reduce inequality will stop that is what we need to

do, we can push these issues. It has to be a bolt of Parliament, there is

a chance to do that, Labour will continue to challenge the austerity

programme. Championed the issue of quality jobs, especially for young

people, and there is plenty of scope for working with other parties. I

want to see a Scottish Government that is much less illiberal than the

last one was, I want something proportionate, and a Government that

for the first time in nationalist history takes devolution within

Scotland seriously and he centralises power to cities and

communities and neighbourhoods. In a minority administration, all parties

need to come to the table with something useful, we will work with

anybody constructively to make Scotland better.

There's continuing election coverage over on BBC Radio Scotland

I'll be joined by Jackie Bird tonight for an extended

Reporting Scotland election special at 6:30pm, from our election studio

here in Glasgow and the Chamber of the Scottish Parliament

We'll be hearing live from party leaders and voters

Until then, from everyone on the Reporting Scotland team

here in Studio A in Glasgow, and our reporters right

across the country, have a very good afternoon.

Elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament. Ivan McKee is elected to

serve in the Scottish Parliament. Elected to serve in the Scottish

Parliament. SNP, 15,000... He is duly elected as the member of

the Scottish parliament for the Eastwood constituency.

Scottish Labour Party, 3004. Sorry, 304, my apology.