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would ignore the clues of the last few days. That's all from the BBC | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
News at 6. Goodbye from me. On BBC One, we can | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
The political landscape of Scotland has changed. | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
The SNP are set for a third term in power here at Holyrood. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
Nicola Sturgeon will return to this chamber as First Minister | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Today the SNP leader has ruled out making | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
formal agreements with any other parties. | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
However, the government I lead will be an inclusive government. It will | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
also reach out and seek to work with others across the Parliament, to | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
find common ground and build consensus. | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
We're also live in BBC Scotland's election centre, | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
looking back on a night which saw the Conservatives overtake Labour | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
Ruth Davidson was all smiles as she became the main opposition | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
she hailed the result as a turnaround for her party. | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
We went into this election promising to keep the SNP in check, last night | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
we made good on that promise, I beating the SNP across Scotland and | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
winning seats on the regional list, we have stopped the SNP from | :01:16. | :01:16. | |
returning a majority. But it was another | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
disastrous night for Labour, the party's worst performance | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
in an election in Scotland in Last night's result is a bad result | :01:23. | :01:33. | |
of the Scottish Labour Party, we lost one third of our MSPs but I | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
think there is new fresh blood coming into the Parliament next | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
week, and that belief that the Scottish Labour Party has ideas, | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
values and principles that are fit for the future of Scotland. We will | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
be showing you how results came together on a historic night in | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
Scottish politics late in using the latest computer graphics. -- | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
Scottish politics late in using the Scottish politics using the latest | :02:00. | :02:00. | |
computer graphics. We'll be assessing how | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
the new government will work and what it might seek to prioritise | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
and how the new group of MSPs -- Stay with us for comprehensive | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
coverage of a historic Good evening from the well | :02:08. | :02:23. | |
of the debating chamber The people of Scotland have spoken | :02:24. | :02:50. | |
and chosen the make-up of these After a long, and at times | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
uneventful, campaign, the climax to this election | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
brought its share of The SNP remains the largest party, | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
winning an unprecedented third Nicola Sturgeon will be back | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
here in this seat as First Minister. But she wont have | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
an overall majority. The Tories, whose leader | :03:08. | :03:08. | |
Ruth Davidson predicted they'd come second during the campaign, did so, | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
and by a fair margin. This is where they usually sit | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
but after more than doubling their seats there might not be | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
enough space to fit them all in. But it was another disastrous night | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
for Labour, their worst result in Scotland | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
in more than a century. Our First Report tonight comes | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
from our Political VOICEOVER: Nicola Sturgeon smiling, | :03:28. | :03:38. | |
she won, just clock that grin from the Conservative leader, who came | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
second. The SNP wiped out labour in Glasgow as they gained from a | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
constituency swing across Scotland. On the roundabouts, the list seats, | :03:47. | :03:54. | |
they fell back, they are still dancing but now without an overall | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
majority. Nicola Sturgeon remains First Minister, with, she says, the | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
right to implement her manifesto programme. We won a clear and | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
unequivocal mandate, and I secured the personal mandate I thought to | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
implement the bold and ambitious programme for government that I | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
asked the country to vote for. -- I sought. I can confirm that when we | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
reconvene in the coming days, I will ask the Scottish Parliament to | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
formally re-elect me as the First Minister of Scotland. On | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
independence, she said that she will continue to make the case, with | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
passion and patients. Our aim is to persuade, not to divide. That | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
applies to other areas of government as well, the First Minister will | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
seek support from other parties, for health and education reforms, and | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
for the annual budget. As First Minister, I know that I have a duty | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
to rise above party politics and to govern in the best interests of all | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
of our country. My pledge today is that I will always seek to do that. | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
But, no coalition, not necessary, say the SNP, only just short of a | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
majority. For Labour, an appalling night, placed third in Scotland for | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
the first time in a century. Kezia Dugdale consciously avoided | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
challenging independence, trying to move the debate on the tax and | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
spending, overnight, she conceded that had not worked with voters. In | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
my determination to try to move the Scottish debate on, it will have | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
cost me and my party votes. For Labour, a fundamental rethink, but | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
not a new leader. Sit back, reflect on the results, and get the Labour | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
Party in Scotland fit to the future once again. For the Tories, triumph, | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
after years of genteel decline. They stood out against tax rises but they | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
depict themselves as sole defenders of the union. It worked. Today, Ruth | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
Davidson warned against second referendum on independence. She said | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
that she stood ready to serve as the principal opposition at Holyrood. | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
that she stood ready to serve as the That is one which will hold the | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
government to account, saying no to a second independence referendum and | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
making them concentrate on the things that matter, schools, | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
hospitals, a growing economy. Popping the courts, the Liberal | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
Democrat celebrate winning two mainland constituencies, to add to | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
Orkney and Shetland, but they were left flat, as the greens overhauled | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
them on the list. Their leader remains a perpetual optimist. Not | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
only have we won in Fife, where I am now the MSP, but also in Edinburgh | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
West, with Hamilton, and a stonking big majority up in Orkney and | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
Shetland. Just a delight to see. People were writing us off before | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
the election, boy, have we bounced back! They winners hug, because lest | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
we forget, the greens took one seat more than the Lib Dems, overall, | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
Patrick Harvie certainly has not forgotten. We will be able to | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
continue to bring constructive pressure to bear on the Scottish | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Government, to sometimes put them beyond their comfort zone. We will | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
give them credit where it is due but we will be unrelenting and | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
challenging where we think they have got to be pushed. Ukip forecast they | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
would take seats across Scotland, very tally remains zero. -- their | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
tally. After a tepid campaign, an very tally remains zero. -- their | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
interesting outcome. Uncertainty to come, but one clear, sharp facets | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
tonight, an historic third victory for the SNP. | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
Sum up, if you can, what is most remarkable about this result? It is | :07:49. | :08:03. | |
the SNP winning, but remember, remember the event from the night, | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
the remarkable Conservative grin, from Ruth Davidson, she advised her | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
colleagues that they should smile until their cheeks were aching, it | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
clearly turned out to be good practice for her. Labour tried to | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
drag this course away from the familiar bed of an situation and | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
independence, on the tax and spending, it did not happen, the | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
full line in Scottish politics remains one between the principal | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
party advocating independence and the principal party advocating the | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
union, and that is now the Conservative Party. Thank you very | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
much at the moment. So has Ruth Davidson's successful | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
campaign finally managed to turn around the Tories' fortunes | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
in Scotland, almost two decades And does another bad result | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
for Labour suggest that party is now headed for a long spell | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
on the fringes of Scottish politics? Glenn Campbell assesses a seismic | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
shift in the politics VOICEOVER: Eastward, the Glasgow | :09:03. | :09:14. | |
suburbs, voted Labour for a generation. But not any more. -- | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
Eastwood. Labour lost some support here to the SNP. I voted SNP this | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
time, I have always been a traditional Labour voter. But the | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
infighting that the Labour Party has, they are still a bit of a | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
shambles. Labour also lost votes and ultimately the seat to the Tories. I | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
feel that the Conservatives match my values, and I also do not believe | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
the SNP's referendum can have an agenda. I wanted to make sure it | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
counted towards me being against the referendum. Labour finished third, | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
prosperous eastward collected a Tories are the first time since 1992 | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
and the winner believes his results and bothered of a big shift in | :10:04. | :10:12. | |
Scottish politics. -- Eastwood. People are looking for an | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
alternative, they have responded to Ruth saying that Labour have had | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
nine years and six leaders, they have not offered an alternative, | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
they are a mini me opposition, they did not object, they just said that | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
they could do it better if they were in charge. Able were looking for | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
something more fundamental than that. The Tories made gains from the | :10:30. | :10:38. | |
SNP, in Aberdeenshire West, and in Edinburgh Central, where the party | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
leader could not disguise her delight at taking the Tories from | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
fourth, to first. But Labour has lost most in this Tory revival. | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
Including Dumfriesshire, the Scottish Secretary's Sun capturing | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
what was on paper there are safest Holyrood seat. -- son. There is no | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
such thing as a safe Labour seat anymore. Tracking the parties at | :11:05. | :11:14. | |
Holyrood since 1999, Labour slide has been steady, the Tories have | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
bumped along, and then suddenly, the switch. The late Donald Dewar would | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
struggle to recognise what is left of the Labour Party that he led into | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
the first Scottish parliament as First Minister, back in 1999. Where | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
there was dominance, there is now decline, and since the independence | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
referendum, labour, which once commanded Scottish politics has | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
collapsed, first at the UK general election, and now, in the Scottish | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
Parliament contest. This was not Jeremy Corbyn's fight, he campaigned | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
with Kezia Dugdale only once. UK party problems like the | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
anti-Semitism row will not have helped Scottish Labour. Some think | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
that the party's promise of income tax rises to reverse cuts was a | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
policy blunder. Somebody described very famously the 1983 manifesto is | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
the longest suicide note in history. If you bring it up today, frankly, | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
the manifesto we stood on is self immolation for dummies. Kezia | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
Dugdale thinks she was saying the right things on tax, even if some | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
voters did not want to listen. So right things on tax, even if some | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
soon after the independence referendum. I know that for some, | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
the constitutional argument remains the most important factor when | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
casting their votes, and my determination to try to move the | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
debate on will have cost me and my party votes tonight. Labour has a | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
nasty habit of changing leader when the party is losing. It has had six | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
in the last nine years, now things are so bad that there seems to be | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
in the last nine years, now things little appetite for another contest. | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
Will you stay as the Labour leader, no matter what? No matter what, | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
100%, I am remaining the leader of the Scottish Labour Party. Labour | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
picked up one seat, Edinburgh Southern, from the SNP, and held on | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
against challenges in Dumbarton and East Lothian, but this party has | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
some hard thinking to do, after this most miserable of results. | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
STUDIO: If your eyes were glued to events in the studio, you will know | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
well that the outcome of this, the fifth election to the Scottish | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
Parliament, was not the foregone conclusion the polls had perhaps | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
suggested. Here's David Henderson with the details of the final result | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
and how the night unfolded. It took all night to count the | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
rights in this election but the result is now clear, let's look at | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
the 73 constituency seats. Here is the map of Scotland. Huge swathes of | :13:54. | :14:02. | |
yellow. That is the SNP, they won the lion share. Spread throughout | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
the country. There is also plenty of conservative blue, in the South of | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
Scotland but also here, in Aberdeenshire West, and in Edinburgh | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
Central. The leader, Ruth Davidson, winning that seat. The Tories took | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
seven constituencies, including four new wins. Labour took a hammering, | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
losing 13 seats and they were left with just three first past the post | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
MSPs. The Liberal Democrats overtook them, including a win for their | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
leader, Willy Rennie, in Fife. 56 MEPs were also elected through the | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
regional lists. -- MSPs. They were crucial to the outcome. Labour | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
gained 21 seats that way, the Conservatives, 24, the SNP, just | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
four, and the greens troubled their tally of seats from the last | :14:58. | :15:06. | |
Parliament, finishing with six MSPs. Where does this leave Scotland's | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
main party leaders? Ukip, there, with David Coburn, failed to get the | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
first MSP. The Liberal Democrats, held the Northern Isles, and gained | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
a few seats elsewhere, but their total is the same as it was in the | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
last Parliament, they have just five MSPs. Patrick Harvie's greens, | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
overtaking the Liberal Democrats as the fourth largest party, with six | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
seats. What kind of support might they now lend to the SNP, in order | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
to allow Nicola Sturgeon to lead a majority government? Kezia Dugdale's | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
Labour Party suffered heavy defeats, all but one of them in the central | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
belt. They ended up with just 24 MSPs, 13 less than they had in the | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
last Parliament. May be overtaken as the largest opposition party by Ruth | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
Davidson's Conservatives, excellent result for them, finishing on 31 | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
seats, more than twice as many MSPs as they had in the last Parliament. | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
Finally, Nicola Sturgeon, she is First Minister again, the SNP | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
finishing with 63 seats, way in front of all challengers, but not | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
quite enough to secure an overall majority. She would have needed 65 | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
MSPs for that. Katrina Renton reports on a dramatic night in | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
Scottish politics. VOICEOVER: It was never a question of if the SNP would | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
win the most seats but just how many would they take. What is now beyond | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
doubts is that the SNP has won a third consecutive Scottish | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
parliament election. The Scottish National Party, 15,222. | :16:52. | :17:05. | |
An early strike over Labour set the tone for the night. But it wasn't | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
the route for the SNP as predicted. As ballot boxes were brought in over | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
land, sea and air, and counting started in earnest, the faces told a | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
story. Labour, once the biggest party at Holyrood, saw the writing | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
on the wall. But this smile tells a different tale. The comeback kids of | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
this election were the Conservatives, as their leader took | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
Edinburgh Central from the SNP and now is the face of the official | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
Opposition. There are people right across Scotland who are sending the | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
SNP a message. Their voices and the decision that we made as a country | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
won'ting ignored. This was the best result the Conservatives have ever | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
had for the Scottish Parliament, in contrast, the night just got worse | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
for Labour. Here in Eastwood, where they were incumbent, they were | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
knocked into third. They lost traditional heartlands like Cowden | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
Beth in Fife and they were wiped out in Glasgow, winning not a single | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
first past the post seat although they took four in the Glasgow list. | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
Kezia Dugdale failed to win her own constituency but was elected on the | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
second vote This election was always going to be tough for the Scottish | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
Labour Party, just a year after a going to be tough for the Scottish | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
pinful general election defeat but I am proud that our campaign rose to | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
the challenge of offering an alternative vision for what could be | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
done in our new, more powerful Parliament. John Finney, Scottish | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
Green Party It was a It was a good night for the Greens, | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
with six seats they've overtaken the Liberal Democrats and are now the | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
fourth party at Holyrood We have gained momentum and a lot of profile | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
during the campaign and we have certainly gained the expertise and | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
experience of getting our campaigners and volunteers out there | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
on a scale that we have never seen before. The Liberal Democrats seemed | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
pleased with there. Are you they have exactly the same number, five, | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
as they went in with, but gained two from the SNP, Edinburgh Western and | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
their leader, Willy Rennie won his own constituent circumstances fooi, | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
north-east. There were no seats for Ukip in Scotland and for the fist | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
time since 1999, no Independence were elected. #7 Perhaps this is not | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
the election result that was expected but with no outright | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
majority for the SNP, there will be deals to be done, so maybe Scottish | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
politics just got even more interesting. | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
When the SNP won its majority five years ago, it moved the debate | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
about Scotland's constitutional future centre stage, leading | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
The result this time around isn't as clear cut. | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
So, what do voters want the new government to focus | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
Our Political Correspondent, Andrew Kerr, is in the long-time SNP seat | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
Jackie, the fair stiff Perth sits in the Mid Scotland and Fife region | :20:00. | :20:14. | |
encompassing some rich rural lands and also part lit former Fife mining | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
communities, too. We have been out listening to what voters have been | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
saying, now the job of governing begins once again for the SNP. The | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
constitution is important, so are jobs and the economy. Our trip | :20:28. | :20:38. | |
tonight begins in Lochderry in Fife Coffee fuelled the politicians | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
during the night. It is now waking up folk in Fife. Diane owns Mrs | :20:42. | :20:50. | |
Brown's Buns today. We asked what some thought of the economic | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
prospects in their area. I feel very positive. It is coming up. There are | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
quite a few businesses opening up. There is something here for | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
quite a few businesses opening up. everybody. What jobs are there here | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
quite a few businesses opening up. for young people? Well, there are | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
quite a lot of good jobs if you can get into something, if you have the | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
qualifications and that but if you have not got the qualifications | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
there's no much jobs out there for everybody There is not very many | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
opportunities, not really for young people. They would need to go out | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
with. The dockyard, if we still have one in two or three years' time, but | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
they don't even take them on as apprentices because some of them are | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
too hold and the qualifications they need, they maybe don't have the | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
qualifications. Then, if they have qualifications, maybe they are too | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
much. So, from bread and butter issues to the wider constitutional | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
question, we have come to Perth to see how Nicola Sturegon should | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
handle the referendum issue. Just beside City Hall where Margaret | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
Thatcher made her first major speech as Prime Minister, we asked if | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
Nicola Sturegon should go to the country again, with another | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
referendum. Ye, definitely. I don't know if it will be in my time but I | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
definitely want to see it but I think she has to get back now and | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
see what she can deliver and prove to the Scottish people that we could | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
be better on our own. After the vote last night, what do you make the | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
constitutional question. I think you are always going to have your | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
staunch SNP supporters that are for independence regardless of | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
everything else. And they are her biggest supporters, whereas there | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
are a lot of other people who, as I say, probably have voted SNP because | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
that was the only one they could trust on a bunch of really not great | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
choices. Scotland is better being part of the whole of the UK. Because | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
we have more leverage abroad, on the world stage, as the UK, rather than | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
Scotland on its own. The sound of varied opinions. In minority | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
government, the SNP will no doubt seek to adopt an inclusive tone. | :22:55. | :23:02. | |
Well, we've moved to the Parliament's Garden Lobby, | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
and with me now is John Swinney the Deputy First Minister. | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
First li, congratulation on your third term. Twhau very much. An | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
historic night for the Scottish National Party and Scottish | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
politics. On no previous occasion has a Scottish Government been | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
elected for a third time. We are delighted with the electoral | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
performance we delivered last night. Now, you know, of all people perhaps | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
better, that this may well be a tough time ahead. You know deals | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
have to be done because you are a minority Government. In the past, in | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
trying to get your Budget through, the all-important Budget, you relied | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
on the Green support. That fell through. How do you know that's not | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
going to happen again? We've had experience, as a Government, between | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
2007-11 of reaching out beyond the ranks of the Scottish National | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
Party, to seek agreements which are ranks of the Scottish National | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
about common purpose. About making sure that we can deliver the public | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
services that members of the public depend upon and ultimately, all | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
political parties have to face up to the fact that the public finances | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
have to be put in order. We have to put the money in place it pay for | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
our schools, hospitals, health care centres for the police, whatever it | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
happens to be, our priorities. So, we, Frankly, can't muck about on | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
Budget issues, we have to get on with it. And over a four-year | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
period, the Scottish Government, with only 47 members, we have 63 | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
behind us in this parliamentary term that's about to start, we managed to | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
secure agreement around our budget on every occasion and that's exactly | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
the approach we'll have to take in the next five years. So you are | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
going to have tow make some concessions. What is it going to be? | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
A ban on fracking? What it'll be, we'll work with other political | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
parties. The fist minister set out today that there are a number of | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
different areas where we will have agreement with other political | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
parties. If you take education, for example, all the parties set out an | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
aspiration in this election campaign to ensure that the Scottish | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
education system delivers world class education for every single one | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
of the children of Scotland. Now we agree with that as a Government. The | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
other parties agree with that but this is an opportunity for us to try | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
to create an agenda which enables us to deliver for the people of | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
Scotland and the Government will be keen to embrace that debate and | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
embrace that discussion and to act in common purpose with Members of | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
Parliament elected from across the political spectrum to make sure we | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
deliver for the people of Scotland. You mentioned some of your | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
priorities there, things you have to deal with, education that's in a bad | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
way. Lots of criticism about what is happening it the NHS. But there is | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
also criticism of your party that the constitution, the question of | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
the constitution, independence, overshadows everything. And if | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
someone put it today - too much independence and not enough | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
enterprise. -- and as someone put it today I cannot apologise for the | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
fact I believe in Scottish independence. I have believed on it | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
all my adult life. You are taking your eye off the ball inform the | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
governance of the country in order to do that. I agree with the | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
proposition you put forward. The OECD report on Scottish education | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
indicated significant strengths in the Scottish education system. There | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
have been enormous improvements in the operation of the health service | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
and the delivery of more patient care in shorter waiting times for | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
members of the public as a consequence of the investment and | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
the decisions taken by the SNP Government. And on the economy, for | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
the overwhelming majority of the term and office of the SNP | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
Government over the last nine years, we have had higher employment in | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
Scotland than the rest of the UK. There are three examples where we | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
have delivered, solid, strong improvements in the exercise of | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
policy within Scotland. And yes we have had a significant | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
constitutional debate but that's a debate about making sure we have the | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
powers in this Parliament to address the issues and challenges that face | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
the people of Scotland. Now, as a consequence of the referendum, as a | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
consequence of the work I was involved in, in the Smith | :26:49. | :26:50. | |
commission, this Parliament will be a more powerful Parliament in the | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
next five years. And we have to exercise, and we are starting to | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
exercise the powers and we have to exercise more of the powers in the | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
best interests of the people of Scotland. What we have heard today | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
in the aftermath of what happened last night is, that and I will say | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
this again, people are asking why not bring some certainty. Certainty? | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
Why not, as a Government, park the issue of independence, for a while | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
and get the very real problems that exist, there are some in education, | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
there are some in health and schools, get it back on track. The | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
First Minister made it crystal clear this afternoon that the Government's | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
priorities will be to take forward the manifesto commitment we made to | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
the people of Scotland, to engage constructively in dialogue with | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
other parties in advancing those poisons and to make sure we improve | :27:38. | :27:39. | |
other parties in advancing those the quality of life of people within | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
Scotland. That will be our driving desire in the Scottish Government | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
and the First Minister's personal commitment is about delivering the | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
transformation in Scottish education that was at the heart of our | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
manifesto proposals. And there is a debate - there is an ongoing debate | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
about the constitution within Scotland but the First Minister also | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
said today that we would engauge in patient consideration of that issue, | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
a patient dialogue with the people of Scotland where we try to persuade | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
people of the strength of our arguments but we do that while we | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
deliver our priorities that were in our manifesto, the priorities of a | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
ream toing Scottish Government that will be determined to improve the | :28:16. | :28:18. | |
quality of life of the people of Scotland. Once again, | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
congratulations, John Swinney and thank you for joining us this | :28:23. | :28:24. | |
evening. Go and get some rest. Ruth Davidson put herself very | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
much at the forefront often been hard to spot | :28:31. | :28:32. | |
over the past few weeks. Steven Godden reports | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
on to what extent that In the heart of her constituency | :28:39. | :28:53. | |
Ruth Davidson saviours a success few thought lightly. The they are the | :28:54. | :29:02. | |
new opposition. I don't think anything in Scotland is permanent. | :29:03. | :29:06. | |
People told me that becoming leader of the Scottish Conservatives would | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
be akin to resuscitating a corpse four years ago. On a personal level | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
her strike Ned o he had inbury Central underlined a political | :29:18. | :29:18. | |
change in the weather. Hooray. Like that enough. I don't | :29:19. | :29:35. | |
like her policies, simple as that. She has a lot to live up to. We'll | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
bum bell through. She is very opinionaited. But you need someone | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
like that. Will you finish second tomorrow? Yes. Conviction at the end | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
of a campaign that was at times surreal. Tory blue overtaking Labour | :29:51. | :29:57. | |
red. Her preis he sowsor had a similar approach, a be eye for the | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
dramatic, this time it worked. -- her predecessor. We were nursing a | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
conda lessens for the Scottish Conservatives. Ruth took that | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
recovery and she turned it into good health forthparty. The focus was on | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
individual, not the Conservative brand. Warm words #20ed but there | :30:16. | :30:18. | |
was no prime ministerial visit brand. Warm words #20ed but there | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
during the campaign. It's most difficult times arriving when the | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
focus was on UK policy. Ruth Davidson recognised that dynamic and | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
responded by agreeing strategically with David Cameron, with the UK | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
party, showing she had a distinct agenda, with not radically different | :30:38. | :30:38. | |
in policy terms. When Ruth Davidson agenda, with not radically different | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
returns to Hollywood, she will be flanked by the largest ever group of | :30:44. | :30:48. | |
Conservative MSPs in a campaign that put personality ahead of party. | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
She's emerged having emboldened both. | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
Congratulations to you, your tactic of being a strong opposition has | :30:58. | :31:08. | |
paid off what does an effective look like? | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
Next week, when people start arriving, you will see that | :31:14. | :32:35. | |
What areas of policy do we most want to influence? | :32:36. | :32:48. | |
From August, there will be a state Guardian. They have had a rethink is | :32:49. | :32:57. | |
the policy has become less popular in the country, and people like | :32:58. | :33:02. | |
health as it is to separate concerns and police have raised concerns as | :33:03. | :33:08. | |
well. We will look to see if we can get a change. Instead of making a | :33:09. | :33:13. | |
blanket and compulsory across the whole Parliament, we will focus on | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
vulnerable families. We will have to make concessions of our own. What is | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
that likely to be? We have said from the very start that we want to be a | :33:24. | :33:27. | |
responsible opposition. One of my great frustrations in the last five | :33:28. | :33:30. | |
years, watching the Labour Party has been watching them grumble from the | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
sidelines and then voting through SNP stuff anyway, I don't think that | :33:35. | :33:40. | |
is an effective opposition. I have said that I want to put through | :33:41. | :33:44. | |
alternatives, something we have wanted to put through is move the | :33:45. | :33:49. | |
SNP on some education policy. Instead of having poorer pupils | :33:50. | :33:55. | |
helped by giving money to local authorities, we force them to make | :33:56. | :34:06. | |
the money for the individuals. Can the Conservatives be trusted. | :34:07. | :34:17. | |
We have worked with people across Scotland to try to make sure that | :34:18. | :34:23. | |
the parliament we are working in can meet their aspirations. That is what | :34:24. | :34:29. | |
people in Scotland voted for. That is why I'm asking the First Minister | :34:30. | :34:32. | |
to take any sort of second referendum on the table. That is | :34:33. | :34:39. | |
what they deserve, the security they deserve the next five years. We were | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
watching a special edition of reporting Scotland. The SNP has won | :34:44. | :34:49. | |
a third consecutive term at Holyrood, the party won 63 seats, | :34:50. | :34:51. | |
two short of an overall majority. On certain policy areas, the greens | :34:52. | :35:15. | |
and Lib Dems could hold more negotiating power. Lucy Adams | :35:16. | :35:21. | |
reports. Every political journey has its ups and its downs. Riding a | :35:22. | :35:30. | |
surge in membership since the referendum, the Scottish greens | :35:31. | :35:33. | |
troubled their seats from two, up to six, much to the delight of these | :35:34. | :35:36. | |
voters. I'm interested in the environmental issues, when parents | :35:37. | :35:42. | |
are wondering what is going to happen for their grandchildren, it | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
is across-the-board stock white I'm more interested in how we are going | :35:47. | :35:59. | |
together the environment. Win overall majority, so it means more | :36:00. | :36:03. | |
teamwork, and for the greens and Liberal Democrats, it means a lot | :36:04. | :36:07. | |
more leveraged for their key policies around education, tax, and | :36:08. | :36:16. | |
transport. For the youngest ever MSP at Holyrood, that means pushing the | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
change. It feels pretty fantastic. The message is very simple, this | :36:21. | :36:24. | |
cliche about young people being the future is not the case, young people | :36:25. | :36:32. | |
are here now, part of the process. Contrary to dire forecast, the | :36:33. | :36:34. | |
Liberal Democrats maintained five seats, including the strongholds in | :36:35. | :36:40. | |
Orkney and Shetland. There is a lot of decent Lib Dem support here. We | :36:41. | :36:43. | |
have Lib Dems running throughout blood. -- through our blood. People | :36:44. | :36:50. | |
find themselves alienated from party politics. I think that probably, in | :36:51. | :36:56. | |
this case, it has been going over things that we know. This is now I'm | :36:57. | :37:02. | |
a naughty government in the Hollywood Parliament, they will have | :37:03. | :37:06. | |
to work with all parties, and they will be the case for improvements. | :37:07. | :37:12. | |
It cuts to ferry fares, which I have not been for. The new SNP government | :37:13. | :37:18. | |
might need the support of other parties to pass legislation. For | :37:19. | :37:25. | |
smaller parties it may provide the softer landing they are looking | :37:26. | :37:42. | |
for full we understand that you could now be the kingmakers, if the | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
SNP come calling what is part of the wish list? We'll be discussing more | :37:48. | :37:52. | |
of these issues in weeks to come, we are keen to push the government to | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
be bolder, things like local democracy, taxation, all areas in | :37:57. | :37:58. | |
which we have focused on the manifesto, good feedback, positive | :37:59. | :38:04. | |
feedback from voters, we will be wanting to push across the | :38:05. | :38:07. | |
Parliament with all parliaments to push those issues. What about | :38:08. | :38:13. | |
taxation. That was a major bank of the manifesto, raising the higher | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
tax rates, can you work with the SNP, who do not want to bring in tax | :38:18. | :38:21. | |
rises? I think that we can, it was not just the top rate, we are the | :38:22. | :38:26. | |
only party election proposing to cut taxes for the lowest paid 50% of the | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
population, and to bring in a raft of local progressive taxes, we | :38:32. | :38:34. | |
believe there is room and scope to work across the Parliament to grieve | :38:35. | :38:38. | |
more progressive taxation at a national level and local level. You | :38:39. | :38:42. | |
are one of the parties that gained a lot of support the visual pushing | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
for a yes vote in the independence referendum, how strongly in this | :38:48. | :38:49. | |
parliament will you be pushing for it? We believe that is a decision | :38:50. | :38:54. | |
for the Scottish people to make, our priority is to use the powers of the | :38:55. | :38:57. | |
Parliament is now, the powers that are coming, to make Hollywood | :38:58. | :39:01. | |
bolder, and change and transformation in the kind areas | :39:02. | :39:06. | |
which matter. There will still be areas of policy. What about the | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
areas... It is not the politicians to make the call as when politician | :39:12. | :39:15. | |
should be able to make the next stage of the journey. It is still | :39:16. | :39:21. | |
hanging in the balance, it is the uncertainty. The voters have elected | :39:22. | :39:24. | |
a Parliament with a majority of SFE 's from parties that support | :39:25. | :39:31. | |
independence. -- the majority of MSPs. | :39:32. | :39:41. | |
It was a disastrous night for Labour. Joining me in the studio is | :39:42. | :39:45. | |
Labour's James Kelly. He was MSP for Rutherglen in the last parliament | :39:46. | :39:48. | |
but lost that seat last night to the SNP, before gaiining a set on the | :39:49. | :39:50. | |
Glasgow list. Congratulations for that. Kezia Dugdale says that Labour | :39:51. | :39:53. | |
is going to sit back and think about the result, wave using label went | :39:54. | :39:55. | |
wrong? I think that labour fourth and energetic campaign, Kezia | :39:56. | :40:01. | |
Dugdale led from the front, and she made a centrepiece of that campaign | :40:02. | :40:08. | |
protection of public services. She led from the front in the wrong | :40:09. | :40:12. | |
direction. You made the centrepiece of the campaign how public services | :40:13. | :40:17. | |
will be fronted, although those policies were popular in opinion | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
polls, they did not come through with the voters, we need to reflect | :40:22. | :40:26. | |
upon why that was the case, and how we can make that more of a | :40:27. | :40:29. | |
centrepiece. This is going to be a big issue, as the Parliament goes | :40:30. | :40:36. | |
back, how we fund public services. Wire was the thinking not done | :40:37. | :40:40. | |
before? Can I ask you that. How can you so badly misjudged where | :40:41. | :40:44. | |
Scotland is now, both in terms of the constitutional question and | :40:45. | :40:48. | |
indeed on the left right spectrum, where you are being squeezed from | :40:49. | :40:54. | |
left and right. -- why was the thinking not done before. It was | :40:55. | :41:00. | |
supported in opinion polls, with the tax, 75% of the population, clearly | :41:01. | :41:03. | |
we did not secure the votes to support the policy tonight, so the | :41:04. | :41:09. | |
summary in -- some of the individual policies we were advocating were | :41:10. | :41:13. | |
supported, but we did not get the cut through in support for them when | :41:14. | :41:16. | |
we put them forward as a Labour Party, and that is why we need to | :41:17. | :41:19. | |
reflect upon it now, to try to rebuild as we move forward. What are | :41:20. | :41:30. | |
the key questions you need to ask yourself? We need to think about how | :41:31. | :41:35. | |
we move forward. Kezia is an asset, she will be an asset into the next | :41:36. | :41:39. | |
Parliament, I don't think that's changing leaders three times as we | :41:40. | :41:42. | |
have done in recent years has helped us. We need to look politically at | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
how we connect with the public. We need to look organisationally at how | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
we get rooted in communities, we need to be talking, to look at | :41:53. | :41:58. | |
support from the public. In a word, can you come back? Of course, we | :41:59. | :42:04. | |
have got the policies, we have got a commitment to fairness and justice, | :42:05. | :42:08. | |
we have a commitment to standing of the communities, and if we look at | :42:09. | :42:13. | |
communities, if we get the message across, I am confident we can come | :42:14. | :42:16. | |
back. James Kelly, thank you very much. Taking a look now and how last | :42:17. | :42:22. | |
nights results are reflected in the debating chamber. Here is how the | :42:23. | :42:27. | |
new Scottish parliament chamber will look, in the centre, this big block | :42:28. | :42:33. | |
of yellow, that is the SNP, with 63 seats, they remain the biggest | :42:34. | :42:39. | |
party, but they are two short of an overall majority. Over here, the | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
Conservatives, in blue, with 31 seats, taking over from Labour as | :42:45. | :42:50. | |
the biggest opposition party. Round here, labour, now relegated to third | :42:51. | :42:57. | |
place, with just 24 MSPs. The greens there have six, and the Liberal | :42:58. | :43:00. | |
Democrats have five. That is how the chamber breaks down along party | :43:01. | :43:05. | |
lines. Eleanor Bradford has been looking at how representative the | :43:06. | :43:10. | |
people who will be sitting in the seats are of Scottish society. | :43:11. | :43:15. | |
VOICEOVER: First, let me take you back to 1999. We got the minimum | :43:16. | :43:22. | |
wage, and the Euro, the first time. Your mobile phone did not have the | :43:23. | :43:26. | |
Internet. The Scottish parliament is established. More women took their | :43:27. | :43:35. | |
seats in just one day than had ever been elected in Scotland in the | :43:36. | :43:42. | |
previous 80 years. But fast forward 70 years, and Scottish Parliament | :43:43. | :43:47. | |
has made little progress in truly reflecting society. -- 17 years. In | :43:48. | :43:53. | |
1999, 48 women were elected, last night, just 45 won seats, making up | :43:54. | :43:59. | |
just one third of MSPs, far fewer than in Wales, where half of the | :44:00. | :44:03. | |
assembly members are women. More than half of the population are. Are | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
you thinking of being a politician ever? No, I do politics at uni, but | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
you thinking of being a politician I probably should, but I do not | :44:13. | :44:16. | |
think I would get in. We did not get things like that at school, it was | :44:17. | :44:20. | |
never dwelled upon, that a girl could get into Parliament. When are | :44:21. | :44:24. | |
you thinking of standing for election? As a female politician, | :44:25. | :44:32. | |
because we need them. What? Annie Wells took the plunge, winning a | :44:33. | :44:36. | |
seat at the Conservatives last night full of you see the abuse that some | :44:37. | :44:40. | |
of the females get, there are a few very strong leaders, and you see the | :44:41. | :44:44. | |
abuse that they take, not just political abuse, it is personal, | :44:45. | :44:48. | |
personally stated at them. Women do not want to put themselves in that | :44:49. | :44:52. | |
situation. Scotland's Parliament has had less accessible it comes to | :44:53. | :44:59. | |
ethnic diversity. -- has had even less success. One of only two | :45:00. | :45:04. | |
politician from Scotland's large Asian population, Yusuf, the other, | :45:05. | :45:10. | |
near. We have made progress, with ethnic representation but there is | :45:11. | :45:14. | |
still work to do, we need a Parliament that is representative of | :45:15. | :45:17. | |
the community and a country where your race, you'll religion, the | :45:18. | :45:21. | |
colour of your skin, your gender, social background, does not affect | :45:22. | :45:26. | |
how you have life outcomes. If you have a disability, you have the most | :45:27. | :45:33. | |
worry about, just one politician has declared personal experience. | :45:34. | :45:36. | |
Disabled people face a number of barriers when they try to get into | :45:37. | :45:39. | |
Parliament, both financial and non-financial, when you try to get | :45:40. | :45:43. | |
in at a party political level, you face access whether it is materials | :45:44. | :45:48. | |
in a variety of formats or just being able to get in the door. There | :45:49. | :45:53. | |
is something clearly wrong, but is it the system or is it society? What | :45:54. | :45:55. | |
is the This was the first Holyrood election | :45:56. | :46:02. | |
where 16 and 17-year olds have been able to vote and I am joined now | :46:03. | :46:05. | |
by three of the BBC's own generation 2016 of first time voters | :46:06. | :46:08. | |
to get their take on the election So with me up in the bird's | :46:09. | :46:11. | |
nest are Stuart Doran, Tell me Jamie, you are 16, the | :46:12. | :46:28. | |
youngest of the three. What was the experience like for you, as a | :46:29. | :46:31. | |
first-time voter? I think it was amazing. Being a first-time voter, | :46:32. | :46:36. | |
it was really good to be politically active, and be more politically | :46:37. | :46:39. | |
involved because I think it is really important that 16 and | :46:40. | :46:43. | |
17-year-olds do vote. But what about others, were you regarded as a bit | :46:44. | :46:47. | |
of an odd anorak or is this engagement wider than you? I think a | :46:48. | :46:52. | |
few of my friends did vote but I found that a lot of people within my | :46:53. | :46:56. | |
social circles didn't. I don't think a lot of people, especially within | :46:57. | :47:00. | |
my social groups did vote but I think it is important that people do | :47:01. | :47:04. | |
but I felt a kind of an outsider that I was actually voting. Molly | :47:05. | :47:07. | |
did you find that A wee bit. I have that I was actually voting. Molly | :47:08. | :47:13. | |
two very different groups of friends. On the one hand is the | :47:14. | :47:18. | |
group that's politically active, campaigning for parties and went to | :47:19. | :47:25. | |
vote at 7.00am and on the other hand, those that didn't register or | :47:26. | :47:28. | |
know what they were voting for. What does the new Parliament need to do | :47:29. | :47:34. | |
tone gauge people To concentrate on it through schools. Teachers are not | :47:35. | :47:37. | |
allowed to talk about politics, it is not encouraged. That's where | :47:38. | :47:40. | |
people learn everything, they can do it on social media but they don't | :47:41. | :47:44. | |
understand it. If they don't learn how can they supposed to take part | :47:45. | :47:48. | |
in the political procession. You all have a stake in this, what do you | :47:49. | :47:53. | |
want to see from it? We want to see, now the Parliament is more diverse, | :47:54. | :47:59. | |
we have more Green and Conservatives than we have before. Even though I | :48:00. | :48:05. | |
was an SNP voter I I'm glad it is now a rainbow Parliament. I want the | :48:06. | :48:08. | |
Parliament to work together, stushling Sturegon has said she | :48:09. | :48:12. | |
wants it to work together. To come together on divan issues to benefit | :48:13. | :48:17. | |
the people of Scotland. To keep your generation engaged what do they need | :48:18. | :48:20. | |
to do? As we mentioned I think schools are the big factor. Young | :48:21. | :48:25. | |
people aren't politically active or politically involved. I think this | :48:26. | :48:28. | |
is' something they need to get their head around. Hope for the future in | :48:29. | :48:32. | |
this Parliament I hope the SNP reverse the cuts to college places | :48:33. | :48:35. | |
to allow more people to be able to go to college. A last word from you? | :48:36. | :48:40. | |
Again, I would agree with Stuart, that I hope that the SNP do work | :48:41. | :48:44. | |
with the other parties to move towards a better Scotland. Well, | :48:45. | :48:47. | |
thank you very much all of you for joining me. And it is over to Jackie | :48:48. | :48:51. | |
in the Chamber of the Parliament. Maybe one of our young people will | :48:52. | :49:01. | |
end up here one day. Now time for a look at the other election | :49:02. | :49:02. | |
highlights from across the country. Today there is be a band of blue | :49:03. | :49:12. | |
stretching across the south of Scotland, from Im ou, th to strap | :49:13. | :49:18. | |
tour. Here John Lamont held his seat against the SNP's Paul We, lhouse | :49:19. | :49:26. | |
with a big majority. Paul We, l, who ue got back. Next door it went from | :49:27. | :49:33. | |
red to blue in Dumfriesshire, and Elaine Murray was knocked into third | :49:34. | :49:39. | |
place, below Joan McAlpine. Who also go the back in the south of Scotland | :49:40. | :49:46. | |
list and the band of blue was completed in gallow and western | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
Dumfriesshire with a hold for the Conservatives in the other Border | :49:51. | :49:54. | |
seat, Christine Graham said she was delighted to hold it for the SNP. In | :49:55. | :50:00. | |
total in the south of Scotland list, three SNP, two Conservatives and two | :50:01. | :50:01. | |
Labour. Here in the Highland and Islands the | :50:02. | :50:11. | |
SNP has held on to all of its constituency seats, as have the | :50:12. | :50:13. | |
Liberal Democrats in Orkney and Shetland. Mirroring development in | :50:14. | :50:18. | |
the rest of the country, the list has provided most change on this | :50:19. | :50:24. | |
political landscape. Because of the SNP's successes in the constituency, | :50:25. | :50:28. | |
where a number of new female faces have emerged they've dropped two | :50:29. | :50:34. | |
places on the list. But their loss is a the Conservative Party's gain | :50:35. | :50:37. | |
and it has increased its members from two to three. Labour holds on | :50:38. | :50:42. | |
to its tally of two and the Greens have returned one MSP. But here in a | :50:43. | :50:48. | |
former Liberal Democrat stronghold, the party has failed to return a | :50:49. | :50:53. | |
member. Some suggested that Ukip could have a chance here in the | :50:54. | :50:58. | |
Highland and Islands. But its Scottish leader, David Cockburn | :50:59. | :51:01. | |
failed to make an impression in the north. | :51:02. | :51:06. | |
Here in the north-east we had to wait until almost 9.00am for the | :51:07. | :51:12. | |
final regional list results and there was some drama, there was a | :51:13. | :51:17. | |
partial recount in Aberdeen constituency after complaints were | :51:18. | :51:21. | |
made that the Labour candidate, Lewis MacDonald had a relative | :51:22. | :51:25. | |
amongst the vote counters but no irregularities were found and he was | :51:26. | :51:28. | |
returned on his party's regional list. More widely the SNP had defend | :51:29. | :51:32. | |
all but one of their constituency seats in this part of the world but | :51:33. | :51:36. | |
here in Aberdeenshire West they lost to the Conservatives who saw their | :51:37. | :51:39. | |
share of the vote increase by 17%. They have now returned Alex ender | :51:40. | :51:44. | |
Burnett to the Holyrood Parliament. On the regional list more widely | :51:45. | :51:49. | |
there are now four Conservative MSPs, two lib Labour and one Lib | :51:50. | :51:56. | |
Dem, Mike Rumbles formerly a constituency MSP who goes back to | :51:57. | :51:59. | |
Holyrood on his party's regional list. | :52:00. | :52:02. | |
In other news. One main story today: The mother of the toddler, | :52:03. | :52:07. | |
Liam Fee, has described hearing a "blood-curdling scream", | :52:08. | :52:10. | |
as she learned her son was dead. The jury has been listening | :52:11. | :52:12. | |
to a police statement by Rachel Fee From the High Court in Livingston, | :52:13. | :52:17. | |
Lisa Summers sent this report. The jury heard a police statement | :52:18. | :52:26. | |
made by racial Fee who is accused alongside her partner Naomi of | :52:27. | :52:29. | |
murdering Liam. In it she describes coming home from the stables around | :52:30. | :52:36. | |
6.20ampm that Saturday night. She said she thought of it was around | :52:37. | :52:40. | |
#0e7 clock when Naomi got up to check on Liam. She said in a the | :52:41. | :52:45. | |
mare of seconds she heard a bloodcurdling cry as Naomi shouted | :52:46. | :52:48. | |
Rachael, Rachael. She panicked and went into the bedroom and madly said | :52:49. | :52:52. | |
he was pure white and lifeless. She said Naomi was putting him on the | :52:53. | :52:55. | |
floor as she screamed to get an ambulance. Rachael Fee tells officer | :52:56. | :52:59. | |
she came out of the bedroom and saw another child. She said she shouted | :53:00. | :53:03. | |
at the top of her voice, what have you done, she said he gestured | :53:04. | :53:05. | |
at the top of her voice, what have putting one thoond his mouth and | :53:06. | :53:09. | |
another around his neck. Rachael Fee's lawyer questioned the | :53:10. | :53:11. | |
detective who took the statement. The court heard an ambulance had | :53:12. | :53:15. | |
been called at 7. 57. He asked if it was possible that Rachael was | :53:16. | :53:18. | |
estimating time of events that evening, the detective agreed. | :53:19. | :53:23. | |
Rachael and Naomi Fee deny murdering Liam and blaming his death on | :53:24. | :53:27. | |
another child. The trial at the High Court continues. | :53:28. | :53:33. | |
Christopher has the weekend forecast. Warmer weather on its way? | :53:34. | :53:39. | |
Well it was plesant apt today across many parts of the country. Decent | :53:40. | :53:43. | |
spells of sunshine around. You can see on the satellite, most in the | :53:44. | :53:48. | |
west, we saw 18 along the Solway coast and a lovely picture from a | :53:49. | :53:52. | |
weather watcher near Fort William. As we head through the next few | :53:53. | :53:55. | |
hours, it stays dry. Fairly cloudy at times. There will be some clear | :53:56. | :54:02. | |
spells. And also, some mist, some low cloud developing in the eastern | :54:03. | :54:06. | |
side. Temperatures in towns and cities about 5-8 Celsius, a few | :54:07. | :54:09. | |
parts of the countryside cooler. Tomorrow we have this weather system | :54:10. | :54:14. | |
working northwards and eventually that will bring showery outbreaks of | :54:15. | :54:16. | |
rain our way but for most tomorrow a that will bring showery outbreaks of | :54:17. | :54:21. | |
dry day, albeit fairly cloudy. To start things off, a bit misty and | :54:22. | :54:27. | |
murky on the east coast and at times inland but that should burn back and | :54:28. | :54:31. | |
the best of the sunshine developing in the west but later on to the | :54:32. | :54:33. | |
the best of the sunshine developing south of the Cairngorms, and in | :54:34. | :54:37. | |
towards Angus as well. But then starting to see a few hefty showers | :54:38. | :54:41. | |
develop. Temperatures in the south-west, high teens, for many 14 | :54:42. | :54:45. | |
to 15 but for many on the east coast it will be cool, a combination of a | :54:46. | :54:50. | |
breeze off the sea and that hard at times. | :54:51. | :54:51. | |
The north-west cloudier compared with today. One or two showers at | :54:52. | :54:55. | |
times and a cool feel on the breeze coming in off the sea. Then that | :54:56. | :54:59. | |
showery rain arrives from the south, working its way northwards as we | :55:00. | :55:02. | |
head overnight, Saturday into Sunday, a murky night, fairly damp | :55:03. | :55:06. | |
at times. But it is clearing away, as we head through towards the | :55:07. | :55:10. | |
second half of the weekend. It is up towards the north-west, we start to | :55:11. | :55:14. | |
drag in that warm air we have been hearing about down south. So, yes, | :55:15. | :55:21. | |
some hard to start off, but that will clear. Temperatures into the | :55:22. | :55:25. | |
low 20s, cooler the further east you are, particularly on the east coast. | :55:26. | :55:30. | |
Mopped, more sunshine, more heat. Temperatures up a notch, 23, maybe | :55:31. | :55:33. | |
24 in the west. Always cooler, though, in the east. That's the | :55:34. | :55:34. | |
forecast for now. And that's all from the election | :55:35. | :55:39. | |
studio for now. Well we are back in the place that | :55:40. | :55:50. | |
will become it's new MSPs next week. Brian Taylor joins me, you have | :55:51. | :55:54. | |
covered every Scottish parliamentary election. Where does this sit in | :55:55. | :56:02. | |
terms? Well, it is intriguing. You tend to find that you get the | :56:03. | :56:07. | |
outcome that's in tune with the Morays of the time. People were | :56:08. | :56:12. | |
saying to that incumbent of that seat - we like you nick larks a lot | :56:13. | :56:16. | |
but let's have checks, ticking now you are determining our income tax. | :56:17. | :56:20. | |
I think the SNP will be able to govern preety efficiently, they | :56:21. | :56:23. | |
don't have a majority. They won't seek to be offering the presiding | :56:24. | :56:27. | |
officers' posts from their ranks for one thing it much' take a big issue | :56:28. | :56:31. | |
that pulls together the Greens, the Liberal Democrats and the | :56:32. | :56:34. | |
Conservatives and they'll try and seek alliances where they can but a | :56:35. | :56:38. | |
remarkable outcome and for the Conservatives and well done to the | :56:39. | :56:41. | |
Greens moving forwards but the winner sits there and that's Nicola | :56:42. | :56:44. | |
Sturegon. Thank you. Highly articulate, as ever and on no sleep | :56:45. | :56:48. | |
whatsoever. Thank you, and that's it, from here in the Scottish | :56:49. | :56:51. | |
Parliament, there is a special edition of Scotland 2016 tonight on | :56:52. | :56:56. | |
BBC Two at 10.30. But for now we leave you with a look back at the | :56:57. | :57:00. | |
memorable moments of a long campaign, which ended in a | :57:01. | :57:03. | |
significant night for Scottish politics. From Holyrood, from us | :57:04. | :57:06. | |
all, good evening. Nicola Sturegon, Scottish National | :57:07. | :57:18. | |
Party, 15,2... ... Is elected to skefb on the | :57:19. | :57:50. | |
Scottish Parliament. Elected to Conservative on the | :57:51. | :57:51. | |
Scottish Parliament. The Scottish National Party, | :57:52. | :57:57. | |
15,000... Gerald Josephm McGravie, 3,004. -- | :57:58. | :58:26. | |
sory, 304, my apologies. I thought something was happening, | :58:27. | :58:31. | |
but possibly not. Thank you very much. # | :58:32. | :58:35. |