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