10/05/2017 Reporting Scotland

manifesto has leaked, we will have an extended peep at what is in it.

Join me on BBC Two. On BBC One it is Good evening on Election

Reporting Scotland tonight... Will Brexit have an

impact on GP services? Like my patients to have access to

GPs whenever they need to. And the Scottish Greens reveal just

how many seats they'll In the run up to the general

election next month, we're bringing you an extended

late-night Reporting Scotland but that hasn't stopped it creeping

into the general election The Royal College of GPs

is concerned that doctors from EU countries may not be allowed to stay

in the UK after Brexit. And they say that could mean

Scotland losing more than 200 GPs. Let's hear first from our political

editor Brian Taylor. Millport, on the Clyde for violent.

A local MP, originally from Poland. Talk of Brexit leaves her and fellow

EU nationals nervous. Their concern extends to her patients. I would

like my patients to have access to GPs whenever they need to. In

emergency situations as well as appointments. I'm not sure what will

happen to that, so that could be potentially dangerous. And the issue

took centre stage in the election campaign today with the focus on

Brexit. He weighed all the pies? Nicola Sturgeon did in East Martin

should. She said the issue proved the need for a big SNP presence in

the Commons. This really highlights the dangers they had, reckless

Brexit, and that makes it important that this election delivers MPs from

Scotland who will fight Scotland's corners. Spend all your time...

Kezia Dugdale here the... That is for Holyrood, not Westminster. They

say they have the... For doctors, Labour says things can only get

worse. There is a workforce crisis amongst GPs, but letters not pretend

that did not exist before Brexit. It will get worse with independence.

that did not exist before Brexit. It Dingwall, this man dresses his case.

He says the concern over doctors says this is a blunder. This is one

of the many reasons that we are discovering to why we should be

remaining at the heart of Europe, because it is going to damage our

NHS with the loss of MPs. We're going to lose many nurses from the

NHS, too. But what is it all mean for the price of fish? This man in

Peterhead says the industry will gain from escaping the EU rules. The

SNP fears UK ministers will strike a deal to maintain access for EU

fleets. On today's other European topic, the Tories say they want an

agreement to keep EU doctors here, but they diagnosed other health

problems. We have got to look about NHS are for the future why is it

that there is an effective cap on the number of Scots going to

Scottish medical schools, why is there a cap on the doctors of the

future? That is something we can sort right now in Scotland. Student

numbers for medicine have long been controlled, but competition is eased

slightly in recent years. Back in Millport, this doctor has elevated

her first year as the island GP. She hopes for many more. Taylor,

Reporting Scotland. Well, with me now is the health

journalist Pennie Taylor. Good evening to you. Is the Royal

College of GPs are right about this? Not just by GPs, but for NHS staff.

We have known since the Brexit discussion started long before the

vote that the potential for harming our health workforce is there in the

decision to leave Europe and to prevent the free movement of people.

The doctors unions are saying one in 25 GPs working in Scotland currently

is a European national and that if it means that that they would leave

or they are not allowed to stay, then that is potentially very

alarming for the NHS in Scotland. The Royal College had already warned

before this that Scotland had lost 90 GPs in four years, and we would

need another 800 by just 2021, so actually it is a pressure point

anyway. The problems with general practice are very long-standing.

These problems have been seen coming for the last 15 years that the very

least and they have been various efforts to mitigate the problems,

but they are not working. You are seeing people pulling out of general

practice, people, young doctors not wanting to take it up as a

profession, and there is an issue here with how we manage primary

care. I think things have to change pretty fundamentally from the way it

has been done. We have general practice working the way since

before the NHS was formed in the 1940s, and you have to ask yourself

whether it is fit for purpose and whether we are brave enough about

looking at other models. And very quickly, GPs will be at the centre

of the community-based health system that is hopes for foot in the

future. But there is a lot more to community-based health care then

GPs. There are fantastic nurses that are piloting new ways of working

which are thought to be extremely effective and a more mixed economy

would benefit patients. Pennie Taylor,

Well, to discuss the issues in the studio is Phillipa Whitford,

an SNP candidate and the Scottish Labour MSP Anas Sarwar,

Good evening to you both. I will come to you first. This is not

directly about health, is it? That relates to Brexit and that a hard

Brexit will lead to the loss of doctors from EU countries. Can

Labour make a commitment to protect NHS staff, do you think, in this

eventuality? Absolute. I would wish that every political party can make

that commitment in this campaign because they are right to highlight

the crisis in general practice. The reality is that this crisis has been

in place way before Brexit, but the reality is that if we lost hundreds

of GPs because of leaving the EU, that would only amplify the crisis

and not minimise the risk. That is why I think every political party

should guarantee the rights of all EU nationals to remain here and

across the United Kingdom. We should thank all of them that have come to

make Scotland, the UK their home and wanting to work for the NHS. I think

political parties should be saying that special arrangements should be

in place, should attract people from right across the EU, to come and

make Scotland their home and work in the NHS, particularly in an time

during a workforce crisis. Philippa Whitford, critics say the SNP has

been in Government for ten years already with responsibility for the

NHS, so any problems with GP numbers, which we already know

exist, it should have been locked out before now, before this issue. I

think as was said, the issue around attracting more young doctors into

general practice is something that has been going on for a long time,

and some of that is within the profession itself. General practice

has to be more respected and students encouraged into it, not

seen as some sort of second class specialism, which is something is a

case during my time as a doctor. Why is it still not appealing,

especially in rural areas? I think that has been a lot of attempts,

creating more trainee praises. But I think in the universities, our young

students and doctors when they just graduate need to spend time in

general practice and then they actually see what the whole point

that is. By husband is a GP and despite all the articles that say

how awful it is, he loves what he does. The other side of it, he is

German, and he has worked in our NHS for 31 years, and 11 months on has

no idea what his future is this country. Let me come back to you

quickly, because Labour's draft general election manifesto has just

reportedly been leaked this evening among plans, nationalising energy

industry, scrapping tuition fees as well, Labour also says committing to

renewing the UK's nuclear weapons system Trident. As a something that

Scottish Labour would be behind as well? As you said, the manifesto may

Scottish Labour would be behind as have been leaked. You may have a

good opportunity to read it. He plans to released on Tuesday. We are

around health and social care which is my brief in the Scottish

parliament. We have a clip a patient on opposing the renewal of Trident.

Kezia Dugdale when she became lead on opposing the renewal of Trident.

was very clear that policy decisions would be made in Scotland by the

Scotland Labour Party and that would be made in Scotland by the

remains a policy position on Trident. Going back to GPs for a

moment, letters not pretend that GP cases do not happen for accident. We

have had ?1.6 billion cut out of primary care. I welcome the reversal

of the courts. But that isn't too little too late. OK, Philippa? I do

not think it is too little too late. There has been a big increasing

community investment, but we need investment in GPs. Brexit is to hit

health in much wider ways than losing our European health insurance

health in much wider ways than card, European medicines agency, and

the research we do right across Europe as part of the EU. And these

things are really important, it is not just about trade. Thank you both

very much for joining us this evening.

More from the campaign trail coming up, but first Anne Lundon has

A BBC investigation has discovered girls are being repeatedly

trafficked to Scotland by Eastern European

One Slovakian girl was discovered to have been trafficked

Others have been sold to Asian crime gangs and forced

And the pursuit of profit has opened up diverse forms of trafficking,

as Sam Poling reveals in this exclusive report.

What you are watching is an illegal organ deal. How much do you want?

45. Euros or sterling? This roaming in is selling the kidney of the one

beside him. He says she is his wife. People and now the most lucrative

commodity and to drugs, sold with labour force tech shall expectation

of our organs. We discovered criminal gangs are now specific --

targeting specific areas with women trafficked from abroad. There is a

link between European crime gangs with human trafficking being one of

the things they do, but links with organisation gangs in Glasgow, so

Eastern European crime gangs will provide the victims and Asian crime

gangs will provide accommodation. I went to Slovakia to try and track

down some of the victims, including one girl who was trafficked twice

previously to Glasgow first up when we get to the house, we are in for a

shock. Where has she gone? Glasgow. Maybe is she is back to Glasgow. You

think your daughter is trafficked back to Glasgow? Other victims

appear to have been trafficked a game. We know there are three girls

currently missing who are back in the UK in Glasgow? Yes. And inside

this house, this girl was sold for a sham marriage. The marriage allows

the groom, pop commonly Pakistani or Indian, to allow for citizenship as

she is now married to an EU citizen. If IS the questions I really want to

ask, the men will get angry? This is a transit house where they are kept

before being transported to Glasgow for sham marriages. How many girls

will have come here? Five, ten? Hundreds? More than 100. Really? I

searched Scotland's marriage records and found numerous suspicious

marriages between young Eastern European brides and old Asian men

with same addresses used on multiple occasions, and yet little trace of

any of the couples living there. The EU's law-enforcement agents said it

was being targeted by the trafficking trade. Samantha polling,

Reporting Scotland. A lawyer who handled Craig Whyte's

takeover of Rangers Football Club has told a court that Mr Whyte

was presented as a man Gary Withey also defended

the assurances he gave ahead of the deal that Craig Whyte had

the funds available to buy the club. He also told the jury that

after he met Mr Whyte he began taking instructions from him

on the Rangers takeover. Mr Whyte denies fraud in connection

with his acquisition A man has been convicted of abusing

a girl aged between three The High Court in Glasgow heard

videos and still photographs made by 39-year-old Hugh Sim

from Renfrew were seen during a police investigation

in New Zealand into This established one of the users

had logged on from the UK, and it was revealed

the subscriber was Sim. The jury found him guilty of five

offences and he'll be The Scottish Football Association's

former compliance officer has told BBC Scotland a zero tolerance

approach to betting within football has to be maintained

to prevent match fixing. This comes a day after the SFA took

action against a player and a chairman for gambling

on football matches, Last night, we told

you the Scottish Greens were fielding a limited number

of candidates in the election. Today, we found out it's

only going to be three. Our political correspondent

Nick Earldey reports from Byres Road in the Glasgow North constituency,

which is one of the Green's We knew that the Greens were going

to stand fewer than ten candidates in Scotland. Today it has been

confirmed it will be just three. Voters here in Glasgow North will

have a candidate, so too in Edinburgh North and Leith and in

Falkirk. Why are they standing in so few seats? One they argue is the

system. First past the post makes it less likely that the smaller parties

will do well. The other is cash. Because of the size of the deposit

and the thought that some local branches of the Greens are

cash-starved after local elections. But some smell a rat and thank the

Greens are standing aside because they feel that their coalition

partners the SNP could face a tight race. There are calls from the

Conservatives for them to stand down from the television debate they were

going to stand in on the BBC. Now, the results of the council

elections last week created a bit of a shift in the local

government landscape, Is there a Tory surge

after 20 barren years? Can the Lib Dems and Labour improve

on their solitary seats? I asked Matt Singh -

the founder of Number Cruncher Politics -

a bit earlier. I think we need to exercise a good

deal of caution. Local elections are different from general elections and

they have different candidates and issues. There are quite a lot of

caveats in terms of the difference but it gives you a clue as to

whether the geographic spread of the voting goes at the moment.

What did that show because it seemed to suggest SNP supporter still very

strong and central belt but that changed in the different regions of

Scotland. Talk is that it what you so.

The SNP support in absolute tempters well above its electoral average.

But he much unchanged from 2012. In terms of geographic patterns, very

strong in the central belt and areas where Labour has traditionally been

dominant but there have been significant shifts. In the

north-east in particular and others where the Conservatives were strong

a few decades ago, there has been a shift there. In council areas like

Aberdeenshire, Angus, Moray. There has been a drop away from the SNP

and games for conservatives. It seems like the Tory surge came at

the cost of the Labour Party when you look at the numbers so in terms

of trying to unseat current SNP MPs, that is going to be difficult in

terms of the Labour vote is moving toward conservatives rather than

coming away from the SNP. It is for that reason and also for

the fact that some SNP incumbents have quite big majorities. One

interesting aspect of the realignment of Scottish politics

around the Constitution is the shift from Labour to conservative and that

is putting the Conservatives with good chances in places like Stirling

and East Renfrewshire, where there is a much bigger Labour vote. But

even north-east areas, some people who voted for SNP but voted no in

the Scottish referendum or lead in the EU referendum, some of those

voters seem to be coming over to the Conservatives. There is evidence of

that even if they didn't change seats in local elections, there were

a pretty big swings. With lots of Jade possible, do you

think it is likely we will see targeted campaigning for these

seats? -- lots of change possible. It is difficult to say. They have

big ambitions. We saw Ruth Davidson and a couple of places in the

north-east today. They were in Banff and Buchan at one point, which the

Conservatives haven't had for some time. They are targeting these seats

but whether they will do so or not we will have to wait and see.

Well, we've got two politicians in Edinburgh tonight -

the Scottish Conservative MEP Ian Duncan and the Scottish Lib Dem

I wonder how much of this apparent surge is people abandoning Labour

rather than may be embracing the Conservative Party.

I think up in somewhere like Perth and North Perthshire agency quickly

that the swingers from the SNP to the Conservatives. There is a swing

but also a switch and the switch is caused by Brexit, weariness, people

who even though they naturally support the nationalist cause cannot

win another referendum right now so the move is to the Conservatives.

Why are you targeting particular seats?

For 20 years we represented the people of Edinburgh West. With

Spielberg be served them well. We -- we feel that we serve them well. We

narrowly lost the seat and since then there has been moved back the

Lib Dems. We won five seats just within Edinburgh West in the Council

elections last week so we feel there is a very strong move towards us and

a kind of anti-SNP feel to this seat. People see us as the most

likely threat to the SNP so we're getting support not just from

disillusioned SNP supporters but Labour supporters and some

conservative supporters as well. To what extent do you think the Lib

Dem votes are becoming localised? There seems to be successful in a

few areas, Edinburgh West possibly being one. Is it the party image or

the national leadership that is failing to break through to people?

If you look at any of the Unionist parties in the selection, you see

that we all come from a localised base because of what happened two

years ago. The Labour Party in Edinburgh South, our cells in

Edinburgh West, North East Fife and eastern branch. It is a case of

building back each of the Scottish party 's -- each Scottish party has

to pull back and strengthen local areas. Nicola Sturgeon we heard in

the BT talking about her she wanted Scottish MPs to go and speak up

Scotland. Not only SNP MPs do that. All do and they speak up for their

constituents and not necessarily their party but the SNP was put

their party first. To what extent do you think that

personality comes over party? 10% of candidates last week voted and were

personality comes over party? 10% of independent. You could also see the

victory of the new French President as an example of that.

You want a good counsellor because they are gold dust. That is where

most of the rubber hits the road. The SNP has been mostly focused on

an independence referendum and that is no use. We are seeing a shift

across Scotland. There is a movement and that will be a breath of fresh

air. Focus back on the day job and getting on with the business of

making people's likes better than constituencies through this general

election. In constituencies like the -- Lake

East Renfrewshire, do you think you In constituencies like the -- Lake

were to split the vote and the Conservatives will take that seat

again? No, and that that not happen in the

local elections. There was reward for hard work and endeavour and

effort and that is no bad thing. We sought not just in places like DEFRA

pusher but in places like Ravenscraig and Paisley, places

where you don't expect to see Conservatives.

Thank you both for joining us. Just before we go our

picture of the day. This was yesterday's

with our favourite caption. And that's Election

Reporting Scotland. Tomorrow on the campaign

trail: Poverty and Good evening. Our dry conditions

continue tonight with a mixture of cloud and clear spells. Perhaps late

rain across the far north and Orkney.