:00:00. > :00:00.Now on BBC One it's time for the news where you are.
:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to a specially extended edition of Reporting Scotland,
:00:07. > :00:11.as the country digests another SNP victory in the election.
:00:12. > :00:16.Nicola Sturgeon heralds an historic third successive Government,
:00:17. > :00:23.but the party falls short of an overall majority.
:00:24. > :00:30.I feel very humbled by the trust the people across Scotland are putting
:00:31. > :00:34.in the SNP. I am determined if the results developed the way I hope it
:00:35. > :00:35.does that I am determined to govern this country in the interests of
:00:36. > :00:36.everybody here. It was all smiles for
:00:37. > :00:38.Ruth Davidson's Conservatives, who were the big winners
:00:39. > :00:41.on the night, overhauling Labour as the main opposition
:00:42. > :00:53.party at Holyrood. There are people right across
:00:54. > :00:57.Scotland who are sending the SNP a message. There are voices and the
:00:58. > :00:58.decision we made as a country won't be ignored.
:00:59. > :01:00.Labour's Kezia Dugdale says it was her party's tactics that lost
:01:01. > :01:05.votes but, despite that, she won't be standing down.
:01:06. > :01:13.I know that for some the constitutional argument remains the
:01:14. > :01:17.most important factor when casting their vote, and my determination to
:01:18. > :01:19.try and move the Scottish debate on well have cost me and my party votes
:01:20. > :01:20.tonight. And the Greens overtake the Lib Dems
:01:21. > :01:25.to become Holyrood's fourth party. We'll be analysing the results
:01:26. > :01:28.and speaking to a panel of leading members of the main parties
:01:29. > :01:30.as the political landscape It's been a remarkable few years
:01:31. > :02:00.in Scottish politics, but once again the election has
:02:01. > :02:04.thrown up surprises. The SNP will form its third
:02:05. > :02:07.successive Government but it won't have a majority
:02:08. > :02:11.at Holyrood. Its main opposition will be
:02:12. > :02:14.the Conservatives, who overtook Labour as the second-biggest party,
:02:15. > :02:18.while the Greens ousted the Liberal Democrats
:02:19. > :02:21.to take fourth place. The SNP won 63 seats,
:02:22. > :02:28.two short of a majority. The Conservatives came second
:02:29. > :02:31.with 31, more than doubling That pushed Labour into third
:02:32. > :02:37.with 24, after the But it was a good night
:02:38. > :02:43.for the Scottish Greens, who overtook the Lib Dems
:02:44. > :02:46.as the fourth-biggest party, In a moment, we'll be looking
:02:47. > :02:50.in more detail at the results, but first Catriona Renton looks back
:02:51. > :03:04.at the night's events. It was never really a question of if
:03:05. > :03:09.the SNP would win the most seats, just how many would they take?
:03:10. > :03:13.The Scottish Parliament as a member...
:03:14. > :03:20.What is now beyond doubt is that the SNP has won a third consecutive
:03:21. > :03:25.Scottish Parliament election. That has never been done before in the
:03:26. > :03:33.history of the Scottish Parliament. But it was not this success that was
:03:34. > :03:38.predicted. As ballot boxes were brought in by land, sea and air, and
:03:39. > :03:42.the counting started in earnest, faces told a story. Labour, once the
:03:43. > :03:51.biggest party at Holyrood, so the writing on the wall.
:03:52. > :03:56.Someone once described the 1983 manifesto as the longest suicide
:03:57. > :03:59.note in history but the manifesto stood on is self and elation for
:04:00. > :04:05.dummies. But this smile tells that the real
:04:06. > :04:09.comeback kids of this election are the Conservatives. As their leader
:04:10. > :04:11.took Edinburgh Central from the SNP, she is now the face of the official
:04:12. > :04:15.opposition. One thing we are learning as tonight
:04:16. > :04:21.goes on is that there are people right across Scotland who are
:04:22. > :04:27.sending the SNP a message. They are voices and the decision we made as a
:04:28. > :04:31.country will not be ignored. Nowhere is that more evident than in
:04:32. > :04:36.Edinburgh Central, where we are coming from fourth position.
:04:37. > :04:41.In the shock of the night, they took eastwards, the incumbent Labour
:04:42. > :04:48.knocked into third place. Like father like son, in Dumfriesshire,
:04:49. > :04:54.Oliver is elected following in his father's footsteps. In contrast, the
:04:55. > :04:59.night got worse for Labour, losing traditional heartlands like places
:05:00. > :05:04.night got worse for Labour, losing in Fife, they were knocked out in
:05:05. > :05:09.Glasgow, winning not a single first past the post seat. Kezia Dugdale
:05:10. > :05:13.failed to win her own constituency but was elected on the list. She
:05:14. > :05:20.announced she is not packing it in. I took over this job at challenging
:05:21. > :05:24.times. From 41 MPs to just one MP. I said at the time I had a mission to
:05:25. > :05:28.read you the Scottish Labour Party and had a plan. I asked my
:05:29. > :05:33.colleagues to step angry with the five-year vision for the party and
:05:34. > :05:36.they did so with 72% of the vote. I have a huge mandate to win this
:05:37. > :05:45.party. Scottish Green Party...
:05:46. > :05:49.The youngest MSP is 21 years old, and with six seats, Green Party have
:05:50. > :05:51.overtaken the Liberal Democrats and are the fourth biggest party at
:05:52. > :05:56.Holyrood. We have gained lament and profile
:05:57. > :06:00.during this campaign and into the expertise and experience of getting
:06:01. > :06:03.our campaigners and volunteers out there on a scale we have never seen
:06:04. > :06:06.before. The Lib seemed happy with their
:06:07. > :06:14.result and have the same number MSP 's as they went in with. But they
:06:15. > :06:20.gained Edinburgh West and from the SNP and they are leader won his own
:06:21. > :06:25.seat in Fife north-east. Two big wins from the SNB and this
:06:26. > :06:31.election is a tremendous result and that is what we are pleased about.
:06:32. > :06:35.There were no seat from Ukip in Scotland and for the first time
:06:36. > :06:39.since 1999, no independence were elected. Perhaps this is not the
:06:40. > :06:44.election result expected but with no outright majority for the SNP, there
:06:45. > :06:45.will be deals to be done. Maybe Scottish politics just got even more
:06:46. > :06:48.interesting. Well, let's take a look at how
:06:49. > :06:50.the results have changed David Henderson can explain, using
:06:51. > :06:54.the latest in computer graphics - or augmented reality,
:06:55. > :07:08.as the boffins call it. It took all night to count the votes
:07:09. > :07:16.cast in this election, but the result is now clear. Let's look
:07:17. > :07:22.first at the 73 constituency seats. Here is our map of Scotland, with
:07:23. > :07:26.huge amounts of yellow, the SNP who won the lion's share of seats, 59
:07:27. > :07:31.spread throughout the country. There is also plenty of conservative blue.
:07:32. > :07:37.They're in the South of Scotland but also here in Aberdeenshire West, and
:07:38. > :07:40.in Edinburgh Central. The leader Ruth Davidson won the Edinburgh
:07:41. > :07:46.Central seat. The Tories took seven constituencies including four new
:07:47. > :07:52.wins. Meanwhile Labour took a hammering and lost 13 seats. They
:07:53. > :07:59.were left with just three first past the post MSPs. The Lib Dems overtook
:08:00. > :08:04.them with four, including a win for their leader, Willie Rennie, in
:08:05. > :08:08.North East Fife. 56 MSP 's were also elected through the regional lists.
:08:09. > :08:14.They were of course crucial to the outcome. Labour against 21 seats
:08:15. > :08:21.that way. The Conservatives gained 24. The SNP gained just for this way
:08:22. > :08:28.and the Green Party travelled to their tally of seats from the last
:08:29. > :08:36.Parliament, finishing with six MSPs. So where does this leave Scotland's
:08:37. > :08:40.main party leaders? Ukip, Bayer, with David Cockburn, failed to get
:08:41. > :08:44.their first MSP. The Liberal Democrats held the Northern Isles
:08:45. > :08:48.and gained a view seats elsewhere but their total is the same as it
:08:49. > :08:56.was in the last Parliament will stop they have just five MSPs. Patrick
:08:57. > :08:59.Harvie's Greens now overtake the Lib Dems as the Parliament's fourth
:09:00. > :09:04.largest party with six seats. What support might they lend to the SNP
:09:05. > :09:09.in order to allow Nicola Sturgeon to lead a minority Government? Kezia
:09:10. > :09:14.Dugdale's Labour Party suffered heavy defeats. All but one of them
:09:15. > :09:21.were in the central belt. They ended up with just 24 Anest Ps. That is 13
:09:22. > :09:25.less than they had in the last Parliament. They have been overtaken
:09:26. > :09:31.has the largest opposition party by Ruth Davidson's Conservatives. An
:09:32. > :09:35.excellent result for them, finishing on 31 seats, more than twice as many
:09:36. > :09:41.MSPs as they had in the last Parliament. Finally Nicola Sturgeon.
:09:42. > :09:45.She is First Minister and again, with the SNP finishing with 63
:09:46. > :09:50.seats, way in front of all challengers. Not quite enough to
:09:51. > :09:55.secure an overall majority. She would have needed 65 MSPs for that.
:09:56. > :09:57.Well, I'm joined in the studio now by:
:09:58. > :10:01.Adam Tomkins, who is a newly elected Conservative MSP,
:10:02. > :10:03.Pauline McNeill, who won a seat on the regional list
:10:04. > :10:09.Lord Purvis of the Scottish Liberal Democrats,
:10:10. > :10:11.and from Edinburgh, Alison Johnstone of
:10:12. > :10:18.Also with me is Professor Ailsa Henderson from Edinburgh University
:10:19. > :10:33.Alyn Smith, you have one and historic third term, a huge
:10:34. > :10:37.achievement but you will be running a minority Government at Holyrood,
:10:38. > :10:41.and it has been some time. It will take some getting used to.
:10:42. > :10:46.This is the Scottish Parliament reverting back to what it was
:10:47. > :10:49.designed to do, a proportional Parliament. It was designed that
:10:50. > :10:54.everyone is a minority, so we have done a minority at ministration
:10:55. > :11:00.before. -- administration. That worked well in the 2007-11 mandate
:11:01. > :11:05.and we will do what we always do. Is that how you will tackle it this
:11:06. > :11:08.time, issue by issue? Those discussions are underway and
:11:09. > :11:13.we are working on the numbers following that. We will do what we
:11:14. > :11:17.always do. We have our historic third term, with a big mandate for
:11:18. > :11:20.Nicola Sturgeon. There are a lot of things we can cooperate with the
:11:21. > :11:23.other parties with. Adam Tomkins, a successful night for
:11:24. > :11:25.other parties with. the Conservatives. What is it down
:11:26. > :11:30.to? A combination of two things. First
:11:31. > :11:34.of all, that we lead the argument in terms of left- right politics and
:11:35. > :11:37.were clear and consistent with a simple message that we did not want
:11:38. > :11:41.Scotland to become the highest taxed simple message that we did not want
:11:42. > :11:44.part of the UK and we let the argument, we we laid it on the
:11:45. > :11:52.constitutional argument which has not gone away. I wish it had gone
:11:53. > :11:55.away but it has not. We had a clear, consistent and simple message, led
:11:56. > :11:57.by Ruth Davidson on both fronts, that we will oppose any second
:11:58. > :12:03.independence referendum and want to see the result of the 2014
:12:04. > :12:12.independence referendum having respect. What is so exciting about
:12:13. > :12:18.the results we saw last night is this will be a strong Scottish
:12:19. > :12:21.Parliament. A Parliament that is genuinely able to hold the
:12:22. > :12:28.Nationalist administration to robust account. Alyn Smith is right that
:12:29. > :12:32.the Scottish parliamentary system has corrected itself after the
:12:33. > :12:36.hugely successful result that the SNP had five years ago. This is what
:12:37. > :12:40.single chamber parliaments are supposed to do.
:12:41. > :12:45.Do you foresee yourselves helping the SNP to get their budget through
:12:46. > :12:49.eventually? Since the other three parties are in favour of tax rises.
:12:50. > :12:54.We have been elected for a clearer job which is to lead the opposition
:12:55. > :12:58.to the SNP. That was the core of our campaign.
:12:59. > :13:01.Will you cooperate on areas... ? That was the core of our campaign on
:13:02. > :13:07.tax and the economy, and the issue of the Constitution. We have been
:13:08. > :13:10.elected to hold the SNP to account. Will you not be cooperating on the
:13:11. > :13:15.budget? I think if the SNP want to deliver
:13:16. > :13:19.the Conservative Party manifesto, we will find ourselves supporting that.
:13:20. > :13:22.We will see what their budget proposals are but we have been
:13:23. > :13:26.elected to lead the opposition to the SNP.
:13:27. > :13:36.Pauline, beaten into third place by the Conservatives in Scotland. How
:13:37. > :13:38.has it got bad? Is your analysis? Let me congratulate the SNP and the
:13:39. > :13:44.Conservatives with a great result and no doubt that Labour's result is
:13:45. > :13:47.worse than expected. We lost a lot of good people and experienced
:13:48. > :13:52.people in Parliament. How to explain it? I think we should not rush to
:13:53. > :13:57.judgment completely at this stage, that would be a mistake for a party
:13:58. > :14:01.to do that. I agree with Kezia Dugdale, the leader, and Adam
:14:02. > :14:07.Tomkins, that the constitutional question is still fundamentally a
:14:08. > :14:11.defining moment. That is for the country. I think that Labour are
:14:12. > :14:14.probably have to be clearer where it wants to position itself. It has
:14:15. > :14:23.defined the space it wants to get into. All my adult little life I
:14:24. > :14:24.believed in home rule for Scotland the benighted kingdom. I believed in
:14:25. > :14:31.the savagery of the United people. the savagery of the United people.
:14:32. > :14:36.-- sovereignty. Labour needs to find its feet more ambitiously and more
:14:37. > :14:40.confidently on that spectrum. Kezia Dugdale has a difficult position as
:14:41. > :14:45.leader and she will remain as leader. That is the position to
:14:46. > :14:52.represent people in our party who voted yes. She has to represent them
:14:53. > :14:55.and that is a difficult thing to do. Lastly, I think, to examine the
:14:56. > :14:58.question of our policy, I think there has been a big consensus among
:14:59. > :15:03.party members that for the first time we actually got it was a bold
:15:04. > :15:08.manifesto, but... Thank you very much.
:15:09. > :15:15.Pushed into fifth place, it is not a major recovery for the Lib Dems. I
:15:16. > :15:19.was at the start of the broadcast when the polls closed, the opinion
:15:20. > :15:24.polls suggested we could be wiped out. These are constituencies that
:15:25. > :15:29.we held. They did not forecast what has happened, we have gained seats,
:15:30. > :15:36.we have an anchor hold of constituencies on the mainland. In a
:15:37. > :15:41.parliament of minorities, there is no difference between six and five
:15:42. > :15:47.MSPs. We fought across constituencies. Our total vote was
:15:48. > :15:54.far higher than the Green Party. Given where people were forecasting
:15:55. > :15:57.us, Willie Rennie is enthusiastic, positive, enthusiastic, he has given
:15:58. > :16:02.us a good platform to be a liberal, reformist opposition. I was on the
:16:03. > :16:10.Finance committee for five years, every single one of the Conservative
:16:11. > :16:15.members supported the SNP Budget. They have broadly the same position,
:16:16. > :16:23.so this broad, Mission of low tax between the SNP and the
:16:24. > :16:27.Conservatives will be fascinating. Six seats, best result ever for the
:16:28. > :16:31.Green Party, what do you intend to do with your increased muscle in a
:16:32. > :16:38.parliament where the SNP are just short of an overall majority? Result
:16:39. > :16:44.ever, but we will work very constructively and mutually as we
:16:45. > :16:48.always have done. -- second best result ever. We will make sure the
:16:49. > :16:53.SNP to not carry out Tory policy, and we are pleased to be the fourth
:16:54. > :16:58.biggest party in parliament. We have a lot to offer, we will keep the SNP
:16:59. > :17:02.honest and make sure that they deliver the radical policies that
:17:03. > :17:06.will bring about transformative change in Scotland. For example a
:17:07. > :17:11.complete ban on fracking. We have disagreements on areas like air
:17:12. > :17:14.passenger duty and taxation, but we are looking forward to playing
:17:15. > :17:21.essential part in parliament in the next five years. There is a
:17:22. > :17:24.pro-independence majority in the parliament, how keen are you at a
:17:25. > :17:29.party on having a second referendum within this Parliament, if the SNP
:17:30. > :17:35.decided that conditions were right as far as they were concerned and
:17:36. > :17:39.wanted to call a second referendum? I don't think it is for the SNP or
:17:40. > :17:45.any political party or politician to decide that conditions are right. It
:17:46. > :17:50.is a matter for the Scottish people. If there were a citizens initiative,
:17:51. > :17:53.perhaps petitioning Parliament, or if it became quite obvious that the
:17:54. > :17:55.majority in Scotland favoured a second referendum, we would support
:17:56. > :18:08.majority in Scotland favoured a that call. What is your picture that
:18:09. > :18:15.you feel the electorate is producing for us in Scotland right now? What
:18:16. > :18:17.are the main lessons and surprises? There are some lessons about
:18:18. > :18:22.are the main lessons and surprises? tactics. There are examples of
:18:23. > :18:25.tactics working well, the Conservative Party has managed to
:18:26. > :18:30.navigate what is a crowded political space on the left and park out its
:18:31. > :18:35.tent on the centre-right, but also on the fusion. There are lessons of
:18:36. > :18:40.tactics that have not gone well. We know that Labour has problems in
:18:41. > :18:45.terms of a perception of standing up for Scotland, voters not always
:18:46. > :18:52.clear on what it is standing for at different times. There are some
:18:53. > :18:56.surprises, I don't think we were expecting the leader effect that saw
:18:57. > :19:01.Willie Rennie and Ruth Davidson capture constituency seats. The
:19:02. > :19:05.extent to which both the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives have
:19:06. > :19:10.returned to or arrived at a geographic base, that is a surprise.
:19:11. > :19:13.There are further surprises to come, we won't get the results until we
:19:14. > :19:18.have findings from the Scottish election study. But the extent to
:19:19. > :19:22.which constitutional preference against economic preference has
:19:23. > :19:27.mattered, the role of class needs to be looked at, but one important
:19:28. > :19:31.finding is about the extent to which we might consider the legislative to
:19:32. > :19:34.be more polarised than in the past. From the perspective of the
:19:35. > :19:39.constitutional preferences, it might appear more polarised than before.
:19:40. > :19:45.If we look at it from economic preferences, there is a centre/
:19:46. > :19:48.centre-right Rafferty, with only a third of voters supporting parties
:19:49. > :19:56.that promise to increase tax. There are lessons and challenges. We are
:19:57. > :20:02.expecting Nicola Sturgeon to speak in the next half hour or so at the
:20:03. > :20:10.house in Edinburgh. What can you tell us? The media are all come out
:20:11. > :20:16.here, the cameras are pointing in one direction, at the door of Bute
:20:17. > :20:20.house, the First Minister's official residence. We expect her shortly
:20:21. > :20:25.after 2pm to make a short statement. We can expect her to reflect on the
:20:26. > :20:32.results overnight, and perhaps some thoughts about the way forward for
:20:33. > :20:36.her SNP minority Government. When Nicola Sturgeon joined the SNP 30
:20:37. > :20:42.years ago, she could never have imagined herself now leading an SNP
:20:43. > :20:48.Government in its third term in a Scottish parliament. This was a
:20:49. > :20:53.clear victory for her party, despite expectations being very high, but
:20:54. > :20:58.now we will hear some unifying thought about how the SNP can move
:20:59. > :21:03.forward and work with the other parties over the next five years.
:21:04. > :21:06.When she appears, we will bring you that live.
:21:07. > :21:09.Let's see what the results look like up close on the Wall Of Truth
:21:10. > :21:24.The map of largely yellow, yellow of the SNP, David Henderson showed it
:21:25. > :21:28.you earlier on, how dominant they are across the country. It was like
:21:29. > :21:32.this five years ago, slightly more impressive from their point of view
:21:33. > :21:37.five years ago. They had already made a change. Let's go into more
:21:38. > :21:45.detail. Across the central belt, it was
:21:46. > :21:49.almost entirely red for Labour, and now you can see very little Labour
:21:50. > :21:53.red left at all. This is the Dumbarton seat at Jackie Baillie has
:21:54. > :21:57.held onto for Labour, partly because she thought a local campaign about
:21:58. > :22:02.local hospitals, the health service and jobs associated with the nuclear
:22:03. > :22:07.base. On the other side of the central belt, East Lothian, Iain
:22:08. > :22:13.Gray, the former leader of the Labour Party held on to that seat.
:22:14. > :22:17.There is a game for the Labour Party, they lost a lot of seats
:22:18. > :22:24.across the central belt, 11 seats, but they gained one in Edinburgh
:22:25. > :22:30.South. The same speed's seat that Iain Murray has for them in the
:22:31. > :22:34.Westminster Parliament, the only seed that have in the Westminster
:22:35. > :22:38.Parliament. Otherwise, the blue of the South. The Tories already had
:22:39. > :22:43.representation in the South, extending into the central large
:22:44. > :22:47.representation in the South, constituency of Dumfriesshire. And
:22:48. > :22:55.holding onto seats they already had, winning in other parts of the
:22:56. > :23:04.country. They already held Ar -- Ayr. This flatters the Conservatives
:23:05. > :23:11.and the SNP a bit, because the ruble seats so much space. Each hexagon
:23:12. > :23:16.represents a constituency. You get a much better sense of the kind of
:23:17. > :23:22.Parliament that we are looking at in terms of constituency. The Labour
:23:23. > :23:29.losses are the ones edged in red. There were also blue Tory seat being
:23:30. > :23:32.picked up. You could see how few Labour seats there are left and how
:23:33. > :23:41.dominant the SNP was right across the country. 56 of 129 seats were
:23:42. > :23:44.elected by the list system, the SNP not doing well enough to get to a
:23:45. > :23:51.majority. Let's have a look at the chamber. When they get to Holyrood
:23:52. > :23:55.next week, the SNP remained very dominant across the middle, but not
:23:56. > :23:57.with the majority they had five years ago. They needed 65 seats for
:23:58. > :24:06.a majority. This is the main opposition party,
:24:07. > :24:13.Ruth Davidson will ask the first question of Nicola Sturgeon. The
:24:14. > :24:19.Green party larger than the Lib Dems. The smaller parties will get a
:24:20. > :24:25.place on committees and the Parliamentary bureau. There will be
:24:26. > :24:31.a different type of politics as the main party without a majority tries
:24:32. > :24:35.to put together coalitions on shifting issues, rather than seeking
:24:36. > :24:37.a firm coalition, such as we had in the first eight years of Hollywood.
:24:38. > :24:40.We're expecting Nicola Sturgeon to speak in the next half hour
:24:41. > :24:52.We had this response from Ruth Davidson.
:24:53. > :25:01.One thing we are learning, there are people right across Scotland who are
:25:02. > :25:07.sending the SNP a message. Their voices and the decision we made as a
:25:08. > :25:10.country won't be ignored. Nowhere is that more evident than in Edinburgh
:25:11. > :25:16.Central, we were coming from fourth position. It has been a in this
:25:17. > :25:25.fight, there are some people I would like to thank. First and foremost,
:25:26. > :25:29.my agent and our organiser. He is one of the most hard-working people
:25:30. > :25:32.I have ever had the great joy to know within the Scottish
:25:33. > :25:36.Conservative Party. I would like to thank our national team, my fellow
:25:37. > :25:42.candidates in Edinburgh, we work this as a Lothian region. We will
:25:43. > :25:48.have a better idea later tonight just how well or otherwise we as a
:25:49. > :25:52.party have done. I cannot help's cannot thank those who have helped
:25:53. > :25:56.me and our candidates enough. If I am I any small measure elected to be
:25:57. > :26:00.the main opposition party, I promise that I would serve to the best of my
:26:01. > :26:06.ability. It is a role I take seriously. To the people I have just
:26:07. > :26:10.been elected to serve, this is the seat I was born in and educated in,
:26:11. > :26:13.been elected to serve, this is the that I live in and work in. It is
:26:14. > :26:18.the seat I hope to serve for many years to come. Thank you very much.
:26:19. > :26:21.In the past hour the Prime Minister has been giving his reaction
:26:22. > :26:23.to the election results across the UK and he congratulated
:26:24. > :26:28.Ruth Davidson on the Conseratives success in Scotland.
:26:29. > :26:30.I think these elections tell us something else as well,
:26:31. > :26:33.and that is that the Labour Party have completely lost touch
:26:34. > :26:35.with the hard-working people they are supposed to represent.
:26:36. > :26:38.I think what these elections show is that where we are
:26:39. > :26:40.a united, mainstream, one nation, with a passionate
:26:41. > :26:42.Conservative Party, we can win, we can serve our country
:26:43. > :26:45.and our communities and we can deliver the things
:26:46. > :26:48.Nowhere is that more the case and with those remarkable results
:26:49. > :26:52.Let us pay huge tribute to Ruth Davidson, and the extraordinary
:26:53. > :26:55.campaign that she has run with those absolutely stunning results,
:26:56. > :26:59.which see the Conservative Party, for the first time in a very long
:27:00. > :27:03.time, to be the official opposition in the Scottish Parliament.
:27:04. > :27:08.It was a great result and she deserved it.
:27:09. > :27:10.After the declaration at her count in Edinburgh,
:27:11. > :27:12.the Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale gave her reaction
:27:13. > :27:27.I congratulate Nicola Sturgeon on her victory this evening and on
:27:28. > :27:30.securing a third term in office. I promise Labour will be an effective
:27:31. > :27:34.but positive opposition over the coming years. This election was
:27:35. > :27:39.always going to be tough for the Scottish Labour Party. Just a year
:27:40. > :27:43.after a painful general election defeat. I am proud that our campaign
:27:44. > :27:46.rose to the challenge of offering an defeat. I am proud that our campaign
:27:47. > :27:50.alternative vision for what could be done in our new, more powerful
:27:51. > :27:55.Parliament. I want to thank all of those who voted for my party across
:27:56. > :27:59.the country, all the people who volunteered and, of course, to all
:28:00. > :28:05.of our candidates. Your support means the world to me. I know that
:28:06. > :28:12.any disappointment felt by my colleagues and friends who have lost
:28:13. > :28:16.tonight is secondary to the concern they feel about the impact of the
:28:17. > :28:19.cuts yet to come and the continued austerity that working people across
:28:20. > :28:22.Scotland will face. For our part, Labour in the new parliament led by
:28:23. > :28:27.me will do as we promised in this Labour in the new parliament led by
:28:28. > :28:31.election. We will fight to ensure the Parliament uses its new powers
:28:32. > :28:36.and fulfils its great potential. I was adamant I would fight this as an
:28:37. > :28:41.election about the future, talking about the potential for change.
:28:42. > :28:45.Using the powers of our new parliament to deliver that change in
:28:46. > :28:52.stead of rerunning the arguments of the past. It -- for some, the
:28:53. > :28:56.constitutional argument remains the most important factor when casting
:28:57. > :29:01.their vote, and my determination to move the debate on will have cost me
:29:02. > :29:05.and my party votes tonight. But in the long run, I believe our politics
:29:06. > :29:10.has to be about the future of our economy, the life chances of the
:29:11. > :29:13.children in this country and our public services, and I and my party
:29:14. > :29:16.will continue to make that argument in our new parliament.
:29:17. > :29:19.You're watching a Reporting Scotland Holyrood election special.
:29:20. > :29:21.An emphatic third victory for the SNP but they fall short
:29:22. > :29:28.I feel very humbled by the trust the people across Scotland
:29:29. > :29:33.I am determined if the results developed the way I hope it does
:29:34. > :29:36.that I am determined to govern this country in the interests
:29:37. > :29:45.And the Conservatives celebrate becoming the biggest opposition
:29:46. > :29:48.There are people right across Scotland who are
:29:49. > :30:06.Their voices and the decision we made as a country won't be ignored.
:30:07. > :30:09.We're going over to the First Minister's official residence now -
:30:10. > :30:11.Bute House in Edinburgh - where we're expecting to hear
:30:12. > :30:29.While we wait for her to come forward, let me have a quick word
:30:30. > :30:34.with our panel. Alyn Smith, what signal have you been sent by the
:30:35. > :30:38.electorate about their enthusiasm or otherwise for a second referendum
:30:39. > :30:44.within this next Parliament? There is an awful lot of numbers we
:30:45. > :30:49.need to crunch to work that out. It was front and centre in our campaign
:30:50. > :30:54.for Nicola to have a mandate, and the fact we have won more seats than
:30:55. > :30:58.Tories, Labour and Lib Dems combined is a spectacular achievement nine
:30:59. > :31:01.years into our Administration. This is a great endorsement of what the
:31:02. > :31:05.SNP has been doing. The SNP were talking a lot in the
:31:06. > :31:12.final days of the campaign about the likelihood of a second referendum. I
:31:13. > :31:20.will ask Thompkins what you think. The electorate has been sent a
:31:21. > :31:24.message... The SNP has no mandate for a second
:31:25. > :31:28.independence referendum, because there was no commitment to hold a
:31:29. > :31:35.second independence referendum in its manifesto. There is no appetite
:31:36. > :31:38.in Scotland, it seems to me, for a second independence referendum, and
:31:39. > :31:41.there will not be won in the lifetime of this Parliament, for the
:31:42. > :31:46.reason that we do not have a majority SNP Government and we don't
:31:47. > :31:48.have a Government of any description that was elected on a manifesto
:31:49. > :31:51.have a Government of any description commitment to hold a second
:31:52. > :31:57.independence referendum. Sorry to interrupt you but Nicola
:31:58. > :31:59.Sturgeon is coming forward at Bute House.
:32:00. > :32:03.Thank you for joining me here on this sunny afternoon, the day after
:32:04. > :32:14.a momentous election victory for the SNP. Yesterday, the SNP made
:32:15. > :32:18.history. We became the first party to win a third consecutive Scottish
:32:19. > :32:24.Parliament election and secure a third term in office. We won the
:32:25. > :32:28.highest share of the constituency vote and the largest number of
:32:29. > :32:33.constituency seats ever achieved in a Scottish Parliament election. We
:32:34. > :32:39.are the very first party in the era of devolution to Paul Morgan 1
:32:40. > :32:51.million votes in constituencies across our country. -- poll. The
:32:52. > :32:55.people of Scotland once again placed their trust in the SNP to govern our
:32:56. > :33:02.country. We won a clear and unequivocal mandate and I secured
:33:03. > :33:06.the personal mandate I sought to implement the bold and ambitious
:33:07. > :33:12.programme of Government that I asked the country to vote for. I can
:33:13. > :33:17.confirm that when it reconvenes in the coming days, I will ask the
:33:18. > :33:24.Scottish Parliament to formally re-elect me as the First Minister of
:33:25. > :33:31.Scotland. It will bend the my intention to form and to lead an SNP
:33:32. > :33:40.Government. With such a large group of NSPs elected, I don't intend to
:33:41. > :33:44.see any formal arrangement -- MSPs. With any other parties. However, the
:33:45. > :33:49.Government lead will be an inclusive Government. It will be firm on our
:33:50. > :33:54.determination to deliver on the commitment we made to the Scottish
:33:55. > :33:57.people, but it will also reach out and seek to work with others across
:33:58. > :34:04.the Parliament, to find common and seek to work with others across
:34:05. > :34:09.ground and build consensus. Election campaigns inevitably focus on
:34:10. > :34:16.differences and on dividing lines. But I believe that if we choose to
:34:17. > :34:20.find it, there is common ground, plenty of it, to build on. I made
:34:21. > :34:24.clear in this election that education will be the defining and
:34:25. > :34:30.driving priority of my tenure as First Minister. I expected to be
:34:31. > :34:38.judged on that. I reiterate that commitment today. Education is my
:34:39. > :34:41.passion and my priority and because of that I was heartened that all
:34:42. > :34:48.parties chose to put a clear focus on it. I hope we can put party
:34:49. > :34:52.differences aside and work together. Ensuring opportunities for all of
:34:53. > :34:56.our young people, regardless of their backgrounds or their family
:34:57. > :35:03.circumstances, is a cause that should and must unite, not divide us
:35:04. > :35:06.over the next five years. There is also a considerable agreement on
:35:07. > :35:12.stepping up our ambition to tackle limit change and protect our
:35:13. > :35:16.environment, and in putting in support for innovation at the heart
:35:17. > :35:21.of our efforts to transform the productivity of the Scottish
:35:22. > :35:26.economy. Of course, the SNP's determination to use new powers to
:35:27. > :35:30.mitigate austerity, invest in our public services and build a social
:35:31. > :35:37.security system based on the principles of dignity and respect,
:35:38. > :35:41.is, with perhaps one exception, shared by other parties in our
:35:42. > :35:50.Parliament. So, the Government I lead will reach out. We will govern
:35:51. > :35:52.with conviction, with ambition and with determination, but also with
:35:53. > :35:59.humility and a willingness to listen and to learn from the ideas of
:36:00. > :36:06.others. On the question of independence, let me say this. The
:36:07. > :36:15.SNP will always make our case with passion, with patients and with
:36:16. > :36:18.respect, but our aim is to persuade, not to divide. -- patience. We will
:36:19. > :36:23.always respect the opinion of the people, now and in the future, and
:36:24. > :36:30.we simply ask that other hearties do likewise. You know, it is the
:36:31. > :36:36.greatest privilege imaginable to be elected as the First Minister of our
:36:37. > :36:42.country. To those who voted for me and for the SNP yesterday, thank you
:36:43. > :36:46.from the very bottom of my heart. You have given me a precious
:36:47. > :36:51.opportunity to change this country for the better, and I promised to
:36:52. > :37:00.seize that opportunity with both hands. To those who did not vote for
:37:01. > :37:09.me, I promise you that I will never stop striving to earn your trust and
:37:10. > :37:15.your support. Like all politicians, I am passionate, very passionate,
:37:16. > :37:18.about the ideals I believe in. But, as First Minister, I know that I
:37:19. > :37:25.have a duty to rise above party politics and to govern in the best
:37:26. > :37:30.interests of all of our country. My pledge to days that I will always
:37:31. > :37:36.seek to do that. Whatever your politics or your point of view, my
:37:37. > :37:42.job is to serve you. I will always fight Scotland's coroner and I will
:37:43. > :37:49.work every single day to make our country fairer, wealthier and
:37:50. > :37:53.stronger. -- Scotland's corner. I relish the opportunities that this
:37:54. > :38:01.next term of Parliament presents and I now look forward to very much,
:38:02. > :38:07.after perhaps a view our's sleep, to getting on with the job. -- if you
:38:08. > :38:09.are as' sleep. The SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon their
:38:10. > :38:14.outside Bute House. Our reporter,
:38:15. > :38:27.Shelley Jofre is there for us. There was Nicola Sturgeon reflecting
:38:28. > :38:30.on her party's great success, momentous, she called it. An
:38:31. > :38:36.historic third term in office. Throughout this campaign, which many
:38:37. > :38:40.have referred to as presidential, Nicola Sturgeon repeated she was
:38:41. > :38:43.seeking a mandate from voters to continue as First Minister. She said
:38:44. > :38:47.she got back mandate and is going back to Parliament to ask to be made
:38:48. > :38:50.First Minister, and she is not seeking to make any kind of formal
:38:51. > :38:56.collection with any of the other parties. It was a unifying speech,
:38:57. > :39:02.though. She talked about governing in the interests of everybody. 20 of
:39:03. > :39:06.common ground. It looks like she is going to put education at the centre
:39:07. > :39:10.of her plan for Government. -- plenty of common ground. On the
:39:11. > :39:13.question of independence she says she will respect the opinion of the
:39:14. > :39:16.Scottish people and hopes all the other parties will as well.
:39:17. > :39:26.Thank you. Douglas, what did you take from
:39:27. > :39:30.that? The mandate is what she was seeking
:39:31. > :39:38.and it gives a burst of political capital. She starts with this huge
:39:39. > :39:41.amount of political capital, especially as her former opponents
:39:42. > :39:46.are now in a weak position, and she knows there are high expectations to
:39:47. > :39:50.deliver, which she has encouraged. I expectations for education, no big
:39:51. > :39:54.surprise she is putting that at the top of her agenda. Interesting when
:39:55. > :39:58.she said no formal coalitions. We will work with the people around,
:39:59. > :40:06.other things... She then listed the environment, which did not play a
:40:07. > :40:12.big part in the debate, but perhaps caters to one particular party. The
:40:13. > :40:17.Tories might like the part about improving the economy and mitigating
:40:18. > :40:21.austerity, for Labour, so if you messages for parties she might reach
:40:22. > :40:25.out to. The Lib Dems might be attracted by mitigation of austerity
:40:26. > :40:29.as well. The next age we will hear, after she has had that sleep,
:40:30. > :40:33.probably looking towards a reshaping of the Cabinet, with different
:40:34. > :40:39.portfolios. Because of the extra tax powers, there will be a new Ministry
:40:40. > :40:41.for finance, I think, recommended by independent experts. What I'm
:40:42. > :40:47.hearing is a possibility that has been looked at, to get the education
:40:48. > :40:54.brief but together with the economy, because in many ways they are
:40:55. > :40:59.linked. That job will go to John Swinney if he is willing to take it
:41:00. > :41:02.on. To focus on education, tied in with council reform, that is a big
:41:03. > :41:07.Strand they will be talking about. Not necessarily changing boundaries
:41:08. > :41:11.but putting pressure on councils to hand power down to unity councils
:41:12. > :41:18.and some form of Morecambe unity based organisation -- more
:41:19. > :41:23.community-based. Health is due for a lot of reform. They are talking
:41:24. > :41:27.about pushing some procedures out into the community. Some getting
:41:28. > :41:31.centralised and more rules for GPs and medical hubs. In the short-term,
:41:32. > :41:35.they need to do something about the economy, because every day there are
:41:36. > :41:38.more jobs being lost. We are going through a rough patch in terms of
:41:39. > :41:42.the fallout from the oil and gas sector in particular. That is the
:41:43. > :41:48.agenda. She set out some of it there today and over the weekend we will
:41:49. > :41:52.hear more about that. Pauline McNeill, a unifying message.
:41:53. > :41:56.We heartened by anything you heard there from your opponent? -- were
:41:57. > :42:04.you? I was. I don't think it is a mandate
:42:05. > :42:08.to govern. For Nicola Sturgeon to recognise that is important. Alyn
:42:09. > :42:11.Smith made the point earlier that the parliament's make up was going
:42:12. > :42:16.back to the way things were supposed to be, that the system was designed
:42:17. > :42:21.not to give anyone... This is a good thing for everyone. If Nicola
:42:22. > :42:25.Sturgeon says that education is one of her issues, I do think there is a
:42:26. > :42:28.lot of scope for common ground, because if all of the political
:42:29. > :42:32.parties you really believe in what we have all been saying in our
:42:33. > :42:35.manifesto is about closing the gap in educational attainment, that
:42:36. > :42:40.means we all have do help. You think Labour is ready to
:42:41. > :42:44.approach these issues now with less tribalism than before?
:42:45. > :42:46.I do. I have come here to be truthful and there is no point in
:42:47. > :42:51.doing anything else. What I do think, however, is the interesting
:42:52. > :42:55.thing for Labour, although it has been a bad night, ICS as forming
:42:56. > :43:03.part of a left Alliance on certain issues. -- I see this happening. I
:43:04. > :43:10.see ourselves as being part of the left. There are lots of areas where
:43:11. > :43:12.we can work with the Greens and Liberal Democrats as well. There are
:43:13. > :43:18.exciting prospects for Labour but I think she gave us a message. I don't
:43:19. > :43:22.think she has a mandate for a referendum, but she has a mandate to
:43:23. > :43:26.govern. That is what they will hold her to a count on.
:43:27. > :43:35.One member of that left Alliance is sitting on our left. Welcome to Ross
:43:36. > :43:41.Greer. You have won a seat for the Scottish Greens and you are aged 21.
:43:42. > :43:44.Youngest ever MSP. Congratulations. Thank you.
:43:45. > :43:48.How are you feeling? 30 hours in, I'm not sure if I am
:43:49. > :43:53.feeling anything any more. We did not know our result up until 7:15am,
:43:54. > :43:57.so it was a painful night, but it was worth it in the end. It feels
:43:58. > :44:04.fantastic but more than anything else, like most other candidates, I
:44:05. > :44:06.am desperate for a rest. We have our first meeting this afternoon because
:44:07. > :44:11.the parliamentary arithmetic did not turn up the way we expected. We have
:44:12. > :44:15.a meeting to think of how we work in this settlement in a minority
:44:16. > :44:20.Government. The last minority Government 's 2007-11, worked well.
:44:21. > :44:23.The SNP had to reach out to other parties for eight constructive
:44:24. > :44:30.approach. I look forward to the opportunity to do that again.
:44:31. > :44:36.What are your main aspirations in this next term as a green MSP? Word
:44:37. > :44:41.you see your effort, and I would hope, your influence going?
:44:42. > :44:49.We will see the most influential green group. We had seven MSPs when
:44:50. > :44:54.it was a majority Government. This is the first time we have had a full
:44:55. > :44:58.group, more than five, and a minority Government, so there is a
:44:59. > :45:04.huge amount. We worked well in the last Parliament, we got a moratorium
:45:05. > :45:08.on fracking, we can push it to a ban, we put pressure on rent
:45:09. > :45:15.controls, we got them partially. We now want full national rent
:45:16. > :45:18.controls. We pushed on foreign ownership of football clubs. We can
:45:19. > :45:24.be a destructive party of opposition, but the first thing we
:45:25. > :45:28.need to rattle with is the finances, tax and spend. We put forward a
:45:29. > :45:32.manifesto about using the tax powers we have had to be a more progressive
:45:33. > :45:35.country will stop tackling inequality but raising revenue for
:45:36. > :45:44.public services. That is what we need to discuss and then we can look
:45:45. > :45:48.at what else we want to do. This all comes back to finances, that is one
:45:49. > :45:54.of the things we need to discuss. Just a word from you on the tax
:45:55. > :46:00.spend, such a big issue during the campaign, what can you the juice
:46:01. > :46:05.about that now? We know a fair bit from the polling. To what extent is
:46:06. > :46:11.there support for raising all marine tax? Depending on how the question
:46:12. > :46:15.is asked matters. Support is much higher if we mentioned public
:46:16. > :46:21.services, which lower if you mention welfare benefits, and if we just
:46:22. > :46:24.mention tax it is in the middle. Related to that, the issue of
:46:25. > :46:28.whether people want their rates to be different from the rates in the
:46:29. > :46:31.rest of the UK. We have consistent evidence of a majority support for
:46:32. > :46:35.the same rates across Scotland and the rest of the UK. We have
:46:36. > :46:40.inconsistent evidence in terms of how much people do want to pay more
:46:41. > :46:47.tax than others in the rest of the UK. That is true of tax but also of
:46:48. > :46:51.a bunch of other policy areas that are currently devolved, where there
:46:52. > :46:54.is variation. People are often not comfortable with the notion of
:46:55. > :47:00.variation in policy, unless they know they are not losing out from
:47:01. > :47:07.it. Education again was what was focused on by Nicola Sturgeon there.
:47:08. > :47:14.To what extent do you feel that there was a reflection in the vote
:47:15. > :47:19.of the fact that it was perceived in some quarters that the ice had been
:47:20. > :47:27.taken off the ball in that key area, as others, such as health, in the
:47:28. > :47:31.last Parliament? If we can draw any conclusions, with the SNP getting
:47:32. > :47:35.more seats than the Tories, Labour and Lib Dems combined, there is a
:47:36. > :47:40.huge endorsement. The independence question is different. Nicola looked
:47:41. > :47:46.for a mandate to govern in this election, with short of a majority,
:47:47. > :47:48.in a proportional Parliament that fosters wind to stop a majority
:47:49. > :47:53.happening. I would have been delighted with a majority, but we
:47:54. > :47:59.can make a minority work, there is ample common ground. I sit on the
:48:00. > :48:03.green group in the European Parliament, we can sit down with the
:48:04. > :48:07.other parties. That is what people want to see, so there is ample
:48:08. > :48:13.scope. The minority administration worked well from 2007 and delivered
:48:14. > :48:17.and pave the way for us winning the majority. We will see how it works.
:48:18. > :48:22.Nicola is clear that we will get on with it. There is a sense of the
:48:23. > :48:30.problems facing Scotland really require solutions that bring the
:48:31. > :48:34.parties together with a selection of the best of the ideas in a way that
:48:35. > :48:40.the Parliament has not really done before. Are you up for that?
:48:41. > :48:47.Absolutely, I am one of the least tribal politicians you will meet,
:48:48. > :48:52.but it is amazing what you can get done if you don't mind who takes the
:48:53. > :48:57.credit. On educational reform, which was a key point in the First
:48:58. > :49:01.Minister's speech, there is no left alliance with regard to education
:49:02. > :49:05.reform. There will be when it comes to hiking up tax, but educational
:49:06. > :49:13.reform is not a left/ right issue, or it should not be. There are lots
:49:14. > :49:15.of great ideas in the Scottish Conservatives manifesto which are
:49:16. > :49:18.quite close to a number of things that the Green party has talked
:49:19. > :49:22.about. I was interested in what Douglas said in the relationship
:49:23. > :49:26.between educational reform and local Government reform. What we need to
:49:27. > :49:32.think about in terms of education reform is not just Budget for
:49:33. > :49:35.schools and how we will cope with 152,000 college places cut, but how
:49:36. > :49:42.we organise education, which is an issue which we have not addressed in
:49:43. > :49:46.the lifetime of the devolution so far. If Nicola Sturgeon wants to do
:49:47. > :49:49.that, we will support her. A quick final thought from you in a moment,
:49:50. > :50:00.but before then, the Some lovely sunshine across the
:50:01. > :50:06.country this afternoon. Lovely blue skies up near Inverness. Elsewhere,
:50:07. > :50:12.there is some cloud, the sun is hazy at times. The best of the sunshine
:50:13. > :50:18.across the Highlands and Islands. Elsewhere is cloudy, but still
:50:19. > :50:21.bright. In the south-west, despite the cloudy skies, perhaps up to 18.
:50:22. > :50:27.It is cold or around the North Sea coast. Tonight it stays dry, but
:50:28. > :50:34.there will be some mist and McGuinness around the East Coast.
:50:35. > :50:42.Looking ahead towards the weekend, Saturday gets off to a cloudy, murky
:50:43. > :50:45.start. In the West, that is where the best of the sunshine is, but it
:50:46. > :50:52.is a fairly cloudy day, with showers developing. Shari rain arriving from
:50:53. > :50:53.the south-west. The timing is open to doubt, but we are thinking late
:50:54. > :51:02.afternoon. It will be caught on the to doubt, but we are thinking late
:51:03. > :51:08.East Coast. One or two showers across the Highlands and Islands. As
:51:09. > :51:11.we head through the rest of Saturday afternoon, into the evening, the
:51:12. > :51:17.rain takes hold and works northwards. A cloudy, murky, damp
:51:18. > :51:22.night, but it is clearing through at a pace, connected to this area of
:51:23. > :51:25.low pressure. This day and murky conditions around the East coast,
:51:26. > :51:32.but we are dragging up warm air from the south. For Sunday, with the wind
:51:33. > :51:36.coming in off the North Sea, right on the east coast it will be chilly,
:51:37. > :51:42.but further west, much warmer. One or two showers, but the sunshine
:51:43. > :51:51.makes the temperatures get into the low 20s. Monday, sunshine, if
:51:52. > :51:52.anything, the warmest spots are a touch warmer. 24 degrees are
:51:53. > :52:06.possible at times. Looking forward into this next new
:52:07. > :52:10.parliament, your priorities? We went into this saying that if we want to
:52:11. > :52:14.build a better country, it needs to be a bold using the powers it has to
:52:15. > :52:21.stop austerity, reduce inequality will stop that is what we need to
:52:22. > :52:25.do, we can push these issues. It has to be a bolt of Parliament, there is
:52:26. > :52:29.a chance to do that, Labour will continue to challenge the austerity
:52:30. > :52:33.programme. Championed the issue of quality jobs, especially for young
:52:34. > :52:37.people, and there is plenty of scope for working with other parties. I
:52:38. > :52:45.want to see a Scottish Government that is much less illiberal than the
:52:46. > :52:49.last one was, I want something proportionate, and a Government that
:52:50. > :52:53.for the first time in nationalist history takes devolution within
:52:54. > :52:58.Scotland seriously and he centralises power to cities and
:52:59. > :53:01.communities and neighbourhoods. In a minority administration, all parties
:53:02. > :53:04.need to come to the table with something useful, we will work with
:53:05. > :53:06.anybody constructively to make Scotland better.
:53:07. > :53:10.There's continuing election coverage over on BBC Radio Scotland
:53:11. > :53:15.I'll be joined by Jackie Bird tonight for an extended
:53:16. > :53:20.Reporting Scotland election special at 6:30pm, from our election studio
:53:21. > :53:24.here in Glasgow and the Chamber of the Scottish Parliament
:53:25. > :53:29.We'll be hearing live from party leaders and voters
:53:30. > :53:35.Until then, from everyone on the Reporting Scotland team
:53:36. > :53:39.here in Studio A in Glasgow, and our reporters right
:53:40. > :53:47.across the country, have a very good afternoon.
:53:48. > :54:27.Elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament. Ivan McKee is elected to
:54:28. > :54:28.serve in the Scottish Parliament. Elected to serve in the Scottish
:54:29. > :54:56.Parliament. SNP, 15,000... He is duly elected as the member of
:54:57. > :55:12.the Scottish parliament for the Eastwood constituency.
:55:13. > :55:17.Scottish Labour Party, 3004. Sorry, 304, my apology.