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but Westminster says no negotiations until Brexit is complete. Now we | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to a special edition of Reporting Scotland from Holyrood. | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Yes, 69, no 59. There were no abstentions... | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
The Scottish Parliament votes for the right to hold a second | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
This is simply about giving people in Scotland a choice. We agree that | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
now was not the right time for that choice, but that choice should be | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
available to people in Scotland. But tonight the UK government | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
rejected Holyrood's call. We will be declining the request for | :00:33. | :00:42. | |
a Section 30 to hold another independence referendum. We won't be | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
making any negotiations until the Brexit process is complete. | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
We'll speak live to the Deputy First Minister and the leader | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
And we've also been asking what you think the future holds. | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
These men know exactly where they want their balls to land. But what | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
position do they think Scotland will be in in 2020? | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
In other news, after the terrorist attack at Westminster, police | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
The Scottish Parliament has voted in favour of asking Westminster | :01:09. | :01:40. | |
for the powers to hold a second independence referendum. | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
The vote in the chamber behind me followed a heated | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
It ended 69 to 59 - with the Greens backing the SNP. | :01:48. | :02:01. | |
The UK Government says there will be no negotiation until the Brexit | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
process is complete. Our political editor | :02:05. | :02:05. | |
Brian Taylor reports. From Beijing to Bute House, Chinese | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
visitors to Edinburgh top-up their photograph collection. But this | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
isn't a random stop. The tourists are well up on the controversy | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
between Scotland and the UK. Nicola Sturgeon acknowledge that the | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
argument was robust, and she urged an open and respectful approach. She | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
said she wished the Prime Minister well in pursuing a Brexit steel, but | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
that was matched with a warning. I simply want Scotland to have a | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
choice when the time is right. I hope that the UK Government will | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
respect the will of this Parliament. If it does so, I will enter | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
discussion in good faith and with a willingness to compromise. However, | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
if it chooses not to do so, I will return to the Parliament following | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
the Easter recess to set up the steps that the Scottish Government | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
will take to progress the will of Parliament. Ruth Davidson accused | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
the SNP of devoting division and rancour. This is not a reasonable | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
plan of a government, it is the SNP cooking at the same recipe for | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
division. Taken to The Take the proposal, stay in the greens and | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
bring to the boil. It might have worked once, but it stinks and the | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
people of Scotland are not buying it. The First Minister says that | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
Scotland must have the choice of independence, the Prime Minister | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
says the focus must be on the Brexit deal for the whole UK. Two and | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
transient leaders, says Kezia Dugdale. She argued firmly against a | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
referendum. 85% voted in the last referendum and voted decisively to | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
remain in the UK. That is the will of the people and it should be | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
respected. My message to the First Minister remains unchanged. We are | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
divided enough, do not divide us again. The Liberal Democrats say you | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
don't fix Brexit by breaking the UK. The decision to withdraw from Europe | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
broke my heart. As an internationalist, my response could | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
never be too up sticks from the one union of nations I have left. The | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
never be too up sticks from the one greens backed the SNP and insisted | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
Brexited changed everything for Scotland. We face being dragged out | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
Brexited changed everything for of the single market with no mandate | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
from the people of the UK or Scotland. To the goats, SNP plus | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
Green equals a majority demand Scotland. To the goats, SNP plus | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
an independence referendum. -- the goats. Yes, 69. The motion as | :04:38. | :04:46. | |
amended is agreed. Applause, cheers, but a solemn looking First Minister, | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
perhaps pondering challenges ahead. Chief among them, convincing the | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
Prime Minister to grant Holyrood the necessary powers. Despite an eye's | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
majority, that will require persuasion, pressure and that will | :05:02. | :05:02. | |
be complex. Not black and white. We have stalemate, what happens | :05:03. | :05:16. | |
next? The room for leverage is limited because legal powers rest | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
with the UK Government. Constitution is reserved to Westminster as part | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
of the Scotland Act, that established Parliament behind me. | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
Nicola Sturgeon could do three things. There is political | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
persuasion in the party machine, the Parliamentary motions here at | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
Holyrood and Westminster. What I want to hear mentioned is that it is | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
being suggested by the Scottish Government is that the UK Government | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
will require Scottish consent at various points or Scottish | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
corporation at various points, a queer -- acquiescence, during | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
Brexit, perhaps it could be withheld. You could call it work to | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
rule. We are going to hear from the First Minister? She spoke shortly | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
after the vote. I hope the United Kingdom government will respect the | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
view of Parliament. This is simply about giving people in Scotland a | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
choice. We agree that now is not the right time for the choice, but it | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
should be available to people in Scotland when the terms of Brexit | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
are clear. I look forward to discussions in the weeks ahead. Now, | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
we seem to be having some noises tonight, I hope that you will bear | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
with us. What has been a reaction from the UK Government? Fairly | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
emphatic? Yes, Theresa May was in Glasgow, emphasising that there | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
would be no referendum within the period of Brexit and beyond that. | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
Allowing Brexit to settle down. We heard from David Mundell, | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
emphasising that point, no referendum during the timetable set | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
out by the First Minister, water 2018 to spring 2019, and, crucially, | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
no negotiations whatsoever in the meantime. We need to know what the | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
choices on offer are. Until the Brexit process is complete, people | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
could not possibly know what the alternatives were. That is why we | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
are saying no at this time. That is why we will not be entering into any | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
negotiations at all until the Brexit process is complete. Now is the time | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
for the Scottish Government to come together with the UK Government, | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
worked together, to get the best possible deal for the UK, and that | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
will mean for Scotland, as we leave the EU. Brian, for the moment, thank | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
you. So, following this evening's vote | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
the Scottish Government will write to the UK Government to formally | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
request the power to hold an independence referendum | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
between Autumn next year But the Prime Minister, Theresa May, | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
has already made pretty clear So what now for the two | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
sides in this debate? Our political correspondent, | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
Glenn Campbell reports. Near Falkirk, voters have | :07:58. | :08:10. | |
conflicting advice for the Prime Minister on how to deal with a | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
formal request from the First Minister for the power to hold | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
another independence vote. I think we have to wait and see what happens | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
with Brexit. That is my bottom line. It just seems ludicrous to jump into | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
a decision before we know exactly how it is going to pan out. I don't | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
think she can say no, because, knowing the Scottish psyche, if she | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
says no people up here are just going to be up in arms and say, OK, | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
what right has she got to tell us what to do? But it doesn't look like | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
Theresa May will feel obliged to bow to Hollywood's demands. If the Prime | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
Minister will not budge, the Scottish Government could call a | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
referendum anyway. But that would be open to legal challenge, and the | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
chairman of the yes campaign in 2014 thinks it could go wrong. The | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
problem there is, I think, that a lot of the unionist people, a lot of | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
the people that voted no last time, will say stuff this referendum, we | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
are not going to take part, and if there is a massive boycott, the | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
result would be lacking in credibility. That would be a | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
problem. What about having an early Holyrood election and making is the | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
central issue? That is a possibility. I am not going to | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
propose that at this stage. But it is maybe a possibility that the | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
First Minister could keep open. The 2014 referendum took place after the | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
UK and Scottish governments agreed the terms. SNP ministers want to | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
replicate that. But this former Conservative adviser thinks Theresa | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
May is in no rush to negotiate. We think that people do not want a | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
referendum right now, including some Yes voters. If they can take this to | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
the general election in 2020, and the Scottish election in 2021, they | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
think they could make substantial gains. What they have to watch is | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
the narrative of a London, Tory Government saying no to something | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
the Scottish Parliament has voted for. It could have severe long-term | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
consequences. Might it be in the Prime Minister's entrusts a | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
compromise? She may not need to get Nicola Sturgeon onside, but it would | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
help her to not have this constant issue in the background as she is | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
trying to conduct those negotiations. One way to avoid that | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
being a major distraction is to have some sort of agreement for a | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
referendum at some point in future, after the negotiations are complete. | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
That space for a deal remains. But, right now, the two sides seem as far | :10:47. | :10:47. | |
apart as ever. I'm joined now by the Deputy First | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
Minister, John Swinney. You've won the vote, | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
but there's also been an emphatic response - | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
no negotiation until Brexit Scottish Parliament has taken a | :10:55. | :11:10. | |
clear decision tonight to instruct the Scottish Government to embark on | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
negotiations with the UK Government to take forward the process of | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
establishing an independence referendum. That is the clear will | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
of Parliament. It emerges from the commitment we gave to the public | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
that if there was a material change in circumstances from 2014, such as | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
Scotland being dragged out of the EU against our will, that Parliament | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
should have the right to seek that opportunity for Scotland to choose | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
her own future. We will now embark on that with the UK Government and | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
aim to persuade the UK Government that the people of Scotland are | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
entitled to have a choice about two very different futures. You are | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
going to write a letter, what is in it? We will set out our demand to | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
take forward the proposal that has been agreed by the Scottish | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
parliament. They have said no, are you offering options? What we have | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
said is that there is an opportunity to discuss the detail of how we go | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
about this process. But the Prime Minister has been very clear, in 18 | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
months' time, the details of the Brexit negotiation will be complete. | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
It will then be available for European parliaments around the | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
continent to ratify the agreement and to consider that agreement. We | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
believe in that window there is an opportunity between the autumn of | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
2018 and the spring of 2019 for the people of Scotland to be given a | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
choice about two different futures. One, a hard Brexit offered by | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
Theresa May, or the opportunity of independence, offered by the | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
Scottish Government. We already know West Minster's answer, so what can | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
you do? Will you countenance another Scottish election? We need to do | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
engage in that discussion. I'm sorry, if they say there is no | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
discussion, I have to press you on sorry, if they say there is no | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
this, you say the vote today is the will of the Scottish people, | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
Scottish people watching tonight would like to know what options you | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
are considering. Can you at least tell them that? What we have said | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
first of all, what the First Minister said is that we encourage | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
the Prime Minister in the discussions she has to take forward | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
tomorrow but the triggering of Article 50, and we wish her well in | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
that process, we set out the position of the Scottish parliament, | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
agreed democratically by elected representative tonight, and we will | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
engage in discussions with the UK Government and key Parliament | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
updated about the steps we can take. I think it is important that, on an | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
evening like this, when Parliament has decided clearly there should be | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
this process embarked on to establish a second referendum, we | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
should have the opportunity to take that forward in discussion with the | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
UK Government, that is what the Scottish Government will do. When | :13:37. | :13:45. | |
the Scottish Government has missed its cancer waiting targets for the | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
fourth year running, and education standards, as you know, have been | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
falling, your opponents say what we do not need is another two years of | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
campaigning, the Scottish Government should get on with leading the | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
country. What is your response? Across a whole range of areas of | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
policy, the Scottish Government take steps to strengthen public services. | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
In A, we had leadership over a 22 month period... 22 months of the | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
best accident and the agency figures in the United Kingdom. In Scotland, | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
a rising proportion of exam success for young people. For ministers in | :14:20. | :14:27. | |
the Scottish Government, like me, we are focused entirely on education | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
and making sure we take forward that agenda. But we also want to make | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
sure the Scottish Parliament has the opportunity to shape a future for | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
Scotland which is an outward looking future, able to participate with | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
other countries. We have run out of time, I take it you will not tell us | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
what is in that letter and what the options are. | :14:48. | :14:47. | |
Let's go to Westminster and to our correspondent David Porter. | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
David, has the UK Government seems to be hardening its line? | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
You I think there is. A pretty blunt uncompromising reaction from the UK | :14:58. | :15:05. | |
Government. No-one here at Westminster thought for anyway that | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
the vote would not go the way it went today so. That to some extent | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
has been factdorred into the response. What has struck me is the | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
strength of the pushback wave had from the UK Government tonight. | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
Previously Theresa May had said - now is not the right time. What UK | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
ministers are now hinting at and saying is - now is not the right | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
time and it may not be the right time for a number of years to come. | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
They are trying to push this in effect, into the long grass. Some | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
ministers privately are saying - you would not be wrong if you were | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
speculating that they would not want any second Scottish independence | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
referendum before the next Holyrood election. That could push it back as | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
far as 2021. Thank you, very much David Porter at | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
Westminster The Scottish Conservative leader | :15:56. | :15:55. | |
Ruth Davidson joins me now. The Scottish Secretary has | :15:56. | :16:04. | |
emphatically ruled out any negotiations on independence | :16:05. | :16:06. | |
until Brexit is complete, so if not now, when? Well Nicola | :16:07. | :16:18. | |
Sturgeon, didn't pen out a timetable. It is talking about | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
principle. You cannot ask the people of Scotland to vote in a referendum | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
when they don't know what they are voting for, they don't know what | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
Brexit or independence looks like. That has not been made clear, nor | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
should you vote or ask people to vote again in a referendum when the | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
majority of Scots don't want to. We don't want dragged back to the | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
decision we made three years ago and that we were told would be respected | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
and respected for a generation. The Prime Minister herself said the deal | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
would almost be done by spring 2019 and that is, Nicola Sturgeon's | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
timetable? Well the Prime Minister has said what we already knew, which | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
is that in two years, from Article 50 being moved, we will have left | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
the European Union. Now there are many things that we won't know, we | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
won't know if there are transitional arrangements or if powers are being | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
repatriated from boroughsles, how they are going to be re-repatriated, | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
if you like to the different devolved administrations and how. We | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
don't know how it is working on the ground and we haven't heard from the | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
other side, from the SNP basic questions about what independence | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
looks like. They are saying leaving the European Union, is the basis for | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
another referendum that they promised people of Scotland they | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
wouldn't have for a generation but they are not talking about whether | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
they would go in as full members of the European Union or about the | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
currency. And if we stuck to the first ministers' timetable of a | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
referendum in 18 months, she would have her campaigners on the street | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
by tomorrow, they would be on the doors by the weekend. Some are here | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
tonight. You might not agree with the vote in the Parliament today but | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
isn't it disrespectful not to give a date just to say - not now, maybe | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
later Well, look, I have always agreed with the self-determination | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
of the Scottish people. That's why at the last referendum, when there | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
was a clear mandate, there was a Government that won a majority, that | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
there was - I voted along West Africary single other MSP, in the | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
Parliament behind us, to have it. It was 92% support across the country. | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
Oh, the chorus has started up but there was agreement across Scotland. | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
At the moment we have division, we have a Government that lost its | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
mandate, its majority. We have a split Parliament in there and we | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
have a majority of Scots that don't want this and we don't know what we | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
are being asked to vote on. Article 50 hasn't been moved yet and they | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
start a campaign tomorrow. Brexit will be triggered tomorrow and | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
Theresa May said there would be an agreed UK position before it is | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
triggered. Is there? Theresa May has worked incredibly hard. There has | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
been joint ministerial meetings. Has the Westminster Government responded | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
to the Scottish Government document, its place in Europe. Has it formally | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
responded? Well, it is about to go into a formal response but it has | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
responded to the questions that are in there. There were lots that the | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
SNP specifically asked for. When the Prime Minister laid out her | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
Lancaster House Speke speech with 12 key planks of how she was going to | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
Lancaster House Speke speech with 12 be negotiate Brexit there were key | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
asks from the SNP in there. They asked for coordination, on crime and | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
intelligence, workers' rights. I interrupted John Swinney and I'll | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
have to do the same to you. We are running out of time. You are very | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
welcome. Today's vote at Holyrood | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
was held back from last week following the terrorist attack | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
on Westminster, which included the murder of police | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
constable Keith Palmer. Today, Police Scotland has deployed | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
officers armed with Tasers Senior officers insist it's not | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
in response to any specific threat. Our home affairs correspondent | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
Reevel Alderson reports. Firearms officers are to be on duty | :19:35. | :19:44. | |
24 hours a day at Holyrood but they'll only be armed with Tasers. | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
Armed response officers with more lethal we are already on routine | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
patrol around the area and on other iconic locations throughout Scotland | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
T follow a review of security in the wake of the Westminster attack. I'm | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
not suggesting for a minute that we jump straight into arming the | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
police. But rank and file police, meeting in annual conference, heard | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
calls for all officers to be armed. They asked a series of questions of | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
the Government 679 Do we have ready access to specialist firearms | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
officers and firearms? What impact is the financial cuts having on | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
these specialist officers and their equipment? And when the Government | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
said they expected more for less, what did they mean? What more can an | :20:29. | :20:43. | |
officer give than his life? Surely they didn't mean that. The | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
conference heard unarmed police were often sent to firearms incidents. | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
Members called for the equipment they need to protect themselves and | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
the public even if it meant being armed. We know that society in | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
Scotland is maybe not ready for that particular step but there has to be | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
an education programme taking place, there has to be an understanding | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
that police officers put their lives at risk every day and if we ask the | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
police to protect the politic we have to ask the question - how do we | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
protect the police? Police Scotland now has 600 officers, trained to | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
deal with any firearms incident. The number of armed response vehicles | :21:09. | :21:09. | |
available almost trebled in the past number of armed response vehicles | :21:10. | :21:11. | |
six months. Senior officers said the security threat was under constant | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
review, based on intelligence here and the wider UK. What you see in | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
review, based on intelligence here Holyrood today is a were you dented | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
measure, operational contingency not in relation to any threat. I can | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
reassure people that we constantly practice our test and response in | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
times of crisis or extreme need and what you have seen over the last few | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
days, is those plans kicking into place, at speed and without any | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
hesitation, right across Scotland. Armed officers in Aberdeen this | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
afternoon. It wasn't a firearms incident, but this may become a more | :21:41. | :21:42. | |
common sight across Scotland. Let's get the weather | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
now and Christopher Good evening. Some sunshine around | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
for some of us. Beautiful blue skies Good evening. Some sunshine around | :21:51. | :21:59. | |
in the north-west but many of us had cloudier conditions. Tonight | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
outbreaks of rain moving their way northwards. Now here it is satellite | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
from earlier. You can see where it was sunny and also the rain edging | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
from the south-west moving its way through the central belt as I speak. | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
Let's look at the forecast and you can see the rain continuing to edge | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
its way northwards tonight. Overnight most of the weather | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
tending to fizzle away to leave most areas dry by the end of the night | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
but still fairly cloudy. Reasonably mild. Temperatures here in towns and | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
cities, you will notice colder for Shetland with colder conditions. | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
Tomorrow gets off to a cloudy but largely dry start. Perhaps the odd | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
brighter moment inspect morning, mist and fog around, too. Then it | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
turns wet. Winds again bands of rain moving north and north-eastwards | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
through the course of the day. So after a dry start for many, expect | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
things to turn wet. Here is mid-afternoon and you can see amass | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
many parts of the country, fairly cloudy and damp. There'll be some | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
breaks in the rain at times and certainly across south facing hills | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
that rain quite moderate. Reasonably mile, double digits for many. The | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
further north you are, the drier it'll be for longer certainly for | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
Aberdeenshire and Orkney and Shetland, brightness there but the | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
fresh south easterly winds will be apparent. Now the rest of the | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
afternoon and into the evening and overnight, the rain still with us | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
for a time, slowly slowly clearing away and as we head through towards | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
Thursday, well, there's some more wet weather in the forecast, coming | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
up from the south. Relatively mild direction but it will be a includy | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
and a wet start to Thursday. A slow improvement, that rain could take a | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
time to clear but hopefully brightening up as we head through | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
towards the afternoon. That's the forecast for now. Back to Jackie in | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
Edinburgh. We've heard from the politicians | :23:45. | :23:46. | |
but it's voters who matter. Our reporters have been out | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
and about throughout the day to see where you think Scotland | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
will be in 2020. It's decision day in Holyrood. In a | :23:53. | :24:04. | |
country we cannot avoid change but we can choose... Well, another day | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
country we cannot avoid change but of headlines on independence or | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
Brexit. An awful lot for people to take in. We are heading over to | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
gallow shields, which is the largest down in thor borders, so let's find | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
out what they are thinking now. I think it'll be part of the UK in | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
Brexit. I would rather it was independent but I've go the a | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
feeling it'll still be part of the UK. Just everything is up in the | :24:29. | :24:30. | |
air. There is nothing certain. Nothing is for sure. So everybody is | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
kind of - I don't know, like you say nervous and anxious. I would hope it | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
would look very much the same as it is now. I was happy with the status | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
quo in the country. I think we'll have chal edges with trade and what | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
have you moving forward but I wouldn't say I'm particularly | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
worried about the situation just now. Well Well it is just after 11s | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
here at the senior men's bowling in Falkirk. These men know exactly | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
where they want their bowls tloond, but what position do they think | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
Scotland will be in in 2020? I think the younger generation will see more | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
changes into the future. I think for us as an older generation, I don't | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
think life is going to change massively in the next three or four | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
years. I particularly don't want another referendum but that's my own | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
view. I think it's very difficult to say where we'll be. I know where I'd | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
like us to be and that is as part of the UK and well and truly out of | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
Europe. It's a busy lunchtime in Aberdeen, | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
office workers have escaped their dressk, grabbed something to eat and | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
are chewing over what Scotland might look like in 2020. I think it will | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
be an independent country. Personally I would prefer it to be | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
independent of Brussels as well as Westminster. I just don't see the | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
point in kind of being independent of the UK but then being members of | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
the EU again and sort of being governed by their legislation. I | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
hope we are still part of the UK and I'm sorry to say I wish we could | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
still be part of Europe although I can't see a way this would happen. | :26:14. | :26:27. | |
Here at a joiny contractors' workshop outside Inverness it is | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
close to the end. Afternoon, the guys here will soon be clocking off. | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
They are joiners, but are they Remainers or Levers? The way I see | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
it, I don't see why we should be having another chance at it. | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
Personally I would like to leave the European Union. That's why I'm on | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
the fence on triggering the second referendum, so we can stay in Europe | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
doesn't wash with me. Well that's our one-day road trip through | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
Scotland almost complete. The political and constitutional | :26:53. | :26:54. | |
journey, though, is only just beginning. And Brian joins me again, | :26:55. | :27:02. | |
Brian, you would echo those thoughts, the journey is just | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
beginning? Yes, it is a week of beginnings, a significant vote | :27:06. | :27:07. | |
tonight in the Scottish Parliament. Tomorrow the triggering of Article | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
50. On Thursday a white paper setting out ways in which the laws | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
of the European Union could be repatriated to the UK and presumably | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
also to the devolved territories but it is also about those voters. I | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
mean, there will be legal argument, there will be parliamentary motions, | :27:24. | :27:25. | |
cajoling and persuasion but what we actually have, what we actually have | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
is competing claims by competing government, the Scottish and UK | :27:31. | :27:32. | |
governments, competing for the attention of those voters, each | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
seeking to persuade that they, the Scottish Government or the UK | :27:37. | :27:38. | |
Government, have got the approach right. I think we'll be back to you | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
pretty soon. Thank you very much for summing that up and for your | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
And that's Reporting Scotland on another day of huge | :27:49. | :27:56. | |
constitutional significance regarding Scotland's | :27:57. | :27:56. | |
Join us tomorrow when I'll be at Westminster reporting | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
on Scotland's place in a changing Europe. | :28:01. | :28:02. |