:00:00. > :00:00.On Election Reporting Scotland tonight.
:00:00. > :00:10.Labour launch their UK Manifesto but what does it mean for Scotland?
:00:11. > :00:15.The SNP celebrate 10 years in power at Holyrood.
:00:16. > :00:17.Plus we're on the campaign trail with the Liberal Democrats
:00:18. > :00:44.Bedtime soon but not before your nightly guide
:00:45. > :00:50.We're here until 8th of June covering the campaign
:00:51. > :00:54.Today felt a bit like Groundhog Day with the official launch
:00:55. > :00:57.Thanks to last week's leak it sounded a bit familiar.
:00:58. > :00:59.And in case you hadn't noticed, today also marked
:01:00. > :01:10.Here's our Political Editor Brian Taylor.
:01:11. > :01:22.One among many, crazier Dugdale joined Jeremy Corbyn to launch the
:01:23. > :01:26.Labour manifesto. On stage the court tax-and-spend offer plus the public
:01:27. > :01:35.ownership of real and Royal Mail and renews trident and supports gas and
:01:36. > :01:38.ownership of real and Royal Mail and constitutional Convention for the
:01:39. > :01:43.UK. Jeremy Corbyn stands firmly against independence because of the
:01:44. > :01:50.yesterday it would bring. 15,000,000,000 lb of additional
:01:51. > :02:00.cuts. We stand against austerity and understand the damage it can do.
:02:01. > :02:01.Nicola Sturgeon rejects that forecast.
:02:02. > :02:04.Today marking a decade in devolved power.
:02:05. > :02:05.Today is a very special day for the SNP.
:02:06. > :02:08.She says Scotland needs the SNP again at Westminster to counter
:02:09. > :02:10.Conservative austerity and die-hard Brexit.
:02:11. > :02:13.She says Labour has lifted policies like free tuition fees from the SNP,
:02:14. > :02:20.I don't think anyone believes Labour is going to be in government
:02:21. > :02:23.and so the question for Scotland is how to best protect Scotland
:02:24. > :02:26.against an increasingly hardline Tory government at Westminster
:02:27. > :02:29.that we know would like to impose more cuts and more austerity
:02:30. > :02:32.and we can only do that by sending strong SNP MPs to Westminster
:02:33. > :02:45.In Dumfries Ruth Davidson decries Labour's recipe.
:02:46. > :02:49.She says the financial plans would leave a bad taste and she says
:02:50. > :02:51.Labour is still not firm enough on the Union.
:02:52. > :02:54.People across Scotland know that the party that will stand up
:02:55. > :02:57.for the decision that we made as a country and that will tell
:02:58. > :03:04.Nicola Sturgeon to think again is the Scottish Conservatives.
:03:05. > :03:10.Cheery fun here, but he reckons that Labour's offer is simply a mess.
:03:11. > :03:13.Labour are not capable of providing a competent opposition in this
:03:14. > :03:15.country and that is very clear from the performance
:03:16. > :03:22.of Jeremy Corbyn and he doesn't seem to know his positions on Brexit
:03:23. > :03:28.What we need is a clear and a compassionate and fair voice,
:03:29. > :03:30.a competent voice for our country and the Liberal Democrats
:03:31. > :03:41.Labour will launch the Scottish manifesto next week.
:03:42. > :03:43.We've got a panel of top pundits tonight to discuss
:03:44. > :03:48.I'm joined in the studio by Paul McNamee - the UK Editor
:03:49. > :03:50.of the Big Issue and the SNP activist Suzanne McLaughlin.
:03:51. > :03:52.In Edinburgh tonight is Duncan Hothersall,
:03:53. > :04:08.here is the Labour manifesto. A traditional fixture of the campaign
:04:09. > :04:14.and the matter to the politicians and the media, the public here?
:04:15. > :04:17.Absolutely. I think it is always a mistake to underestimate voters.
:04:18. > :04:22.They are not stupid. They absolutely care and I actually think this is an
:04:23. > :04:27.interesting manifesto. It has people talking. Is this the recognisable to
:04:28. > :04:31.people in Scotland because they already have most of these policies
:04:32. > :04:38.in Scotland. Put in place by the Scottish Government. I think people
:04:39. > :04:44.care about is when you are on the doorsteps and talking to people and
:04:45. > :04:50.meetings, the care about a way out poverty and austerity, that is what
:04:51. > :04:56.they want. The people of Scotland are lucky enough that there is hope
:04:57. > :05:01.and a way out. I think this is a step forward for people and the rest
:05:02. > :05:07.of the UK. It was Jeremy Corbyn's big moment to sign after the leak
:05:08. > :05:09.last week Digital out of? I thought it was very competent and he spoke
:05:10. > :05:15.without tripping up and he got through all the policies that we
:05:16. > :05:24.knew were coming. It's not a ringing endorsement. The thing with Jeremy
:05:25. > :05:29.Corbyn is that today there are a lot of policies that people like. Nobody
:05:30. > :05:36.is going to argue about trying to do more for the health service or
:05:37. > :05:42.education, or workers in low income. Nobody is going to argue with any of
:05:43. > :05:48.that. There might be an appetite for higher taxes for higher earners and
:05:49. > :05:55.that agenda but the bottom line is it doesn't matter. He is not good to
:05:56. > :05:58.get elected. There is a certain amount of a dance going on here and
:05:59. > :06:04.I think it is fascinating because Jeremy Corbyn obviously at some
:06:05. > :06:08.place in his heart of hearts I am guessing knows he is not good to be
:06:09. > :06:11.prime ministers saw what he is doing essentially a sitting at an agenda
:06:12. > :06:15.for the next people coming along seeing as you go to be this labour
:06:16. > :06:20.that people want even if they didn't want me? That is the crucial
:06:21. > :06:26.question, can you believe in this manner as prime ministers? Did he at
:06:27. > :06:27.least close the credibility gap? I think he has had a terrific few
:06:28. > :06:35.least close the credibility gap? I weeks in the campaign. I think he
:06:36. > :06:38.has presented a very solid and strong Labour set of policies and I
:06:39. > :06:46.think probably for people in Scotland the critical statement in
:06:47. > :06:50.that manifesto is the clear opposition to independence as to a
:06:51. > :06:53.second referendum. We have a situation in Scotland and the
:06:54. > :07:03.general election the Conservatives and the S are essentially
:07:04. > :07:11.polarising the country. We have to move past constitutional politics
:07:12. > :07:14.and reset that line, we have had the referendum and you move onto other
:07:15. > :07:20.things. Applicant a really strong set of Labour policies. He has
:07:21. > :07:24.clarified the constitutional question, Labour opposes a second
:07:25. > :07:30.referendum, it is unwanted and unnecessary. A clear no to that of
:07:31. > :07:32.its also a promise to set up a People's Constitutional Convention
:07:33. > :07:38.its also a promise to set up a to consider the option of a more
:07:39. > :07:43.federal UK. Is that kicking devolution powers into the long
:07:44. > :07:46.grass? Let's be clear, policies are all one thing but you have to enact
:07:47. > :07:56.them and you have to be empowered to do that. This federalism issue, we
:07:57. > :08:01.have Jamie Cobham pondering it and people don't believe Labour any
:08:02. > :08:05.more. Didn't believe Jeremy Corbyn to be any position to enact any
:08:06. > :08:08.progressive policies. The people in Scotland want that they have one
:08:09. > :08:14.choice and that is SNP. Stronger for Scotland or the way. Jeremy Corbyn
:08:15. > :08:20.is a Democrat and he is playing the game to a certain degree, she has to
:08:21. > :08:24.say this to pander to middle England but the subtle fact of the matter is
:08:25. > :08:32.that she is a Democrat and he is not to ignore the will of the Scottish
:08:33. > :08:35.climate. She also has to walk a taken on Trident, renewal supported
:08:36. > :08:43.by the National manifesto but still opposed by the party in Scotland.
:08:44. > :08:48.And also it was a slightly wishy-washy approval because he also
:08:49. > :08:53.said he wants to talk about some kind of talks for multilateral
:08:54. > :08:55.said he wants to talk about some disarmament globally so it is
:08:56. > :08:58.something he has never quite got hold of because of his past and this
:08:59. > :09:02.is the problem with the credibility of Jeremy Corbyn that has passed
:09:03. > :09:10.each coming back or just on one point there, the idea that the only
:09:11. > :09:14.alternative at the SNP, I think that is slightly troublesome because we
:09:15. > :09:15.need a full rainbow of approach and ideas rather than just one kind of a
:09:16. > :09:24.monolithic organisation. Duncan, the ideas rather than just one kind of a
:09:25. > :09:29.Trident issue, how are they going to ground this problem with London and
:09:30. > :09:35.the Labour manifesto? People and the labour movement have always had a
:09:36. > :09:38.range of views on this issue, and I think what is interesting in the
:09:39. > :09:43.discussion is this criticism that if you do take the view that Labour
:09:44. > :09:51.can't win the election, not a view I take, you can then put against
:09:52. > :09:55.Labour the option of an SNP that is only standing and 59 out of 650
:09:56. > :09:58.seats. Literally standing in 600 plus seats and could form a
:09:59. > :10:01.Government. SNP isn't even trying to plus seats and could form a
:10:02. > :10:07.form a Government so adamant that Labour mini couldn't win if you hold
:10:08. > :10:11.that view, it was the S out of the water. Like very much.
:10:12. > :10:14.More from the campaign trail coming up, but first Suzanne Allen has
:10:15. > :10:25.After the longest trial in UK criminal history, a husband and wife
:10:26. > :10:29.Edwin McLaren from Renfrewshire was found guilty of property fraud
:10:30. > :10:35.His wife Lorraine was convicted of mortgage fraud.
:10:36. > :10:45.Some knew him as Adrian, David or Evan, his real
:10:46. > :10:49.name is Edwin McLaren, and today he became
:10:50. > :10:59.The homeowner thinks that he is paying money into her account.
:11:00. > :11:02.But the court found he had sold her house -
:11:03. > :11:04.little did she know he was not putting money in,
:11:05. > :11:09.helping himself to the proceeds of the house sale.
:11:10. > :11:12.This was an advert he put in the paper but he didn't
:11:13. > :11:18.Instead of a loan until the house was sold in the future,
:11:19. > :11:21.the court heard he had the trust of vulnerable people and told
:11:22. > :11:27.them to sign documents and the house was his.
:11:28. > :11:32.This woman said her father had a heart attack when he found out.
:11:33. > :11:35.He just wants to curl up into a ball and die after what Edwin McLaren has
:11:36. > :11:38.effectively done to him and as far as the family is concerned
:11:39. > :11:40.Edwin McLaren is scum who basically preys on people
:11:41. > :11:49.In the case of one couple Edwin McLaren turned up here,
:11:50. > :11:53.at the cancer centre to get a document signed, the homeowner
:11:54. > :11:55.said he was so weakened by his cancer treatment
:11:56. > :11:58.that he did not even know what the document was.
:11:59. > :12:02.It turns out that he and his wife were signing over their house.
:12:03. > :12:06.Of the cases that made it to court, there were more than 30 victims,
:12:07. > :12:08.the length of Scotland and one in England.
:12:09. > :12:18.This is Edwin McLaren's own home with a yellow Bentley in the garage,
:12:19. > :12:21.he lived there with his wife Lorraine who was also found guilty
:12:22. > :12:24.of one count of fraud, both husband and wife
:12:25. > :12:30.We had over 200 people involved in the investigation
:12:31. > :12:33.and in my experience this is one of the most complex property
:12:34. > :12:41.When this woman made an agreement with Edwin McLaren he called himself
:12:42. > :12:43.Evan and she said she was struggling financially and also
:12:44. > :12:50.As I say, I was really unwell, suicidal.
:12:51. > :12:57.And then he came forward as quite a nice person.
:12:58. > :13:01.And not this animal that he turned out to be.
:13:02. > :13:03.Text messages between the conman and the homeowners are evidence
:13:04. > :13:07.of how they had to beg for the money he hadn't paid them.
:13:08. > :13:09.And today's verdict is not the end for the victims,
:13:10. > :13:12.many have got to go to the civil court to try to get
:13:13. > :13:21.Edwin and Lorraine McLaren now wait to hear their sentences.
:13:22. > :13:25.Fiona Walker, reporting from Glasgow.
:13:26. > :13:29.The Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown has told a court that former TV
:13:30. > :13:32.weatherman Fred Talbot tried to sexually abuse his
:13:33. > :13:35.friend on a camping trip to Scotland in the 1970s.
:13:36. > :13:38.Mr Talbot denies assaulting several boys in Moffat
:13:39. > :13:40.in Dumfries and Galloway and on the Caledonian
:13:41. > :13:46.Edinburgh council has denied bullying property owners to recover
:13:47. > :13:50.debts arising from the capital's controversial system
:13:51. > :13:58.A number of owners claim officials have repeatedly brushed aside
:13:59. > :14:01.concerns about work - typically worth hundreds
:14:02. > :14:04.But the council say difficult cases have been independently reviewed
:14:05. > :14:21.and insist their approach is reasonable.
:14:22. > :14:33.in order, to suddenly receive a bill for ?24,000 was frightening.
:14:34. > :14:35.In tennis, Andy Murray is out of the Italian Open
:14:36. > :14:39.He lost 6-2, 6-4 to Italian player Fabio Fognini
:14:40. > :14:43.The world number one has struggled in form since topping the rankings
:14:44. > :14:46.He keeps his number one status despite being knocked out
:14:47. > :14:50.That's all for now - back to Stephen.
:14:51. > :14:53.As we saw earlier, the First Minister has been
:14:54. > :14:55.marking a decade of SNP in power at Holyrood.
:14:56. > :15:06.If a year is long time in politics, an awful lot can
:15:07. > :15:18.Alex Salmond let out of his helicopter and into power. A
:15:19. > :15:21.surprise result after years of Labour dominance in Scottish
:15:22. > :15:32.politics, the SNP had a lot to prove. That is the end of. Meanwhile
:15:33. > :15:37.at Westminster there was another changing of the guard as Tony Blair
:15:38. > :15:43.stood down as Labour leader, to be succeeded by Gordon Brown. The
:15:44. > :15:48.Liberal Democrats are elected a freshfaced young MP, Nick Clegg as
:15:49. > :15:53.party leader. The day of the Scottish elections was also the D3
:15:54. > :15:58.three-year-old Madeleine McCann was reported missing while on holiday in
:15:59. > :16:04.Portugal. Ten years on, what happened to her remains a mystery.
:16:05. > :16:10.The biggest news story of the year in Scotland was the failed terrorist
:16:11. > :16:15.attack on Glasgow airport. A flaming car was driven into the terminal
:16:16. > :16:24.entrance, five people were injured and the attacker died. It made a
:16:25. > :16:32.tabloid star of John Smeaton. I personally ran up and attacked him
:16:33. > :16:37.along with five people. And on television, we said goodbye to Jack
:16:38. > :16:45.and Victor as the last series of still game was broadcast. Or was it?
:16:46. > :16:46.That was then but this is no. -- now.
:16:47. > :16:49.With me now our nightly political panel, this evening its Labour MSP
:16:50. > :16:52.James Kelly and Lib Dem candidate Alan Reid, in Dundee
:16:53. > :16:54.tonight Stewart Hosie - who's a candidate for the SNP -
:16:55. > :16:57.and Conservative candidate and MSP Ross Thomson is in Aberdeen.
:16:58. > :17:05.Welcome to you all, thank you for joining me. A big day for the SNP,
:17:06. > :17:09.ten years in power. The Tories say you have peaked and the only way is
:17:10. > :17:16.down, how will you prove them wrong and what will be the measure of your
:17:17. > :17:22.success? We set out in 2015 to win the UK election in Scotland. We set
:17:23. > :17:28.out in 2017 to win the UK election in Scotland. We are campaigning very
:17:29. > :17:32.hard in every seat, the manifesto has not been launched yet but when
:17:33. > :17:38.you see it it will be an exciting and vibrant proposition, a real
:17:39. > :17:43.opposition to the deep austerity, more cuts and hard Tore Brexit
:17:44. > :17:54.promised by to leave me and the Conservatives. More seats on the 8th
:17:55. > :17:59.of June? I won up put a limit on it. I am convinced we will do very well
:18:00. > :18:06.indeed. According to traditional political wisdom, the SNP should be
:18:07. > :18:11.in decline after ten years and the opposition in ascendancy, instead of
:18:12. > :18:17.that, you have collapsed as a party, quite a turnaround? After ten years
:18:18. > :18:18.of the SNP in power, people will reflect on the division and the
:18:19. > :18:24.obsession with the independence reflect on the division and the
:18:25. > :18:32.referendum... How come they are doing so well and you are doing so
:18:33. > :18:39.badly? There has been ?1.5 billion of SNP cuts, 4000 less teachers and
:18:40. > :18:45.education, 1000 less support staff. People are fed up with the effing
:18:46. > :18:55.Tories... We are sending a message to the SNP. -- fed up with the SN
:18:56. > :19:03.PE. Even the gloomiest predictions suggest they are by far the biggest
:19:04. > :19:07.party at the general election. The SNP no doubt will amend a good
:19:08. > :19:11.number of seats but there is an opportunity across Scotland to send
:19:12. > :19:16.a clear message to the First Minister that there are things to be
:19:17. > :19:20.getting on with such as her so-called priority of education when
:19:21. > :19:25.we have children leaving school who cannot do the basics of reading and
:19:26. > :19:35.writing. The economy is on the brink of recession. The waiting time
:19:36. > :19:37.targets forced hospitals are being breached. But Conservative to send a
:19:38. > :19:41.message to the First Minister, ditch the referendum, forget the
:19:42. > :19:47.divisiveness of the referendum. You are accepting there will be an SNP
:19:48. > :19:50.landslide on the 8th of June? I think there will be a good number of
:19:51. > :19:55.colleagues who will be joining David Mundell on the benches. Labour
:19:56. > :20:00.collapse should leave space for effective opposition and that should
:20:01. > :20:05.be you but it has turned out to be the Tories and said, what have you
:20:06. > :20:09.done wrong? That is definitely an effective opposition in Scotland but
:20:10. > :20:16.that is a large number of seats where the Liberal Democrats are
:20:17. > :20:21.second to the SNP and we are confident that those people are fed
:20:22. > :20:25.up with a second independence referendum and will vote for a
:20:26. > :20:29.Liberal Democrat candidate... What are you basing that on because the
:20:30. > :20:35.tide seems to be turning towards the Tories and not to you? Time after
:20:36. > :20:40.time that people are saying they want to stop the SNP and the second
:20:41. > :20:45.independence referendum and I am confident they will vote for the
:20:46. > :20:50.candidate best placed to defeat the SNP and in several constituencies
:20:51. > :20:56.that is the Liberal Democrats. Let us talk about the approach in
:20:57. > :20:59.that is the Liberal Democrats. Let general terms, Bank of Scotland
:21:00. > :21:06.growth showed a slight improvement but we remain behind the UK in terms
:21:07. > :21:12.of business growth. Increasing corporation tax, hammering their
:21:13. > :21:16.higher paid, how will that encourage their Scottish economy? Because the
:21:17. > :21:22.central theme of the very successful man of Haass talks launched today is
:21:23. > :21:28.the promotion of public services. -- successful man of five -- manifesto
:21:29. > :21:32.launched today. There will be extra money for the Scottish project.
:21:33. > :21:37.Every programme for education, reversing the cuts the SNP have made
:21:38. > :21:42.we will produce skilled students who will contribute to a growing
:21:43. > :21:50.Scottish economy. That is a positive action from a positive Labour
:21:51. > :21:53.message today. You have considerable powers of attacks which you choose
:21:54. > :21:56.not to use, is it time to use them? You heard the Finance Secretary this
:21:57. > :22:03.week talking about the tax rates for future budgets. All this talk of
:22:04. > :22:08.independence, the second independence rather ignores the fact
:22:09. > :22:16.that this is a UK election. On the point of the labour kept -- launch
:22:17. > :22:23.is that those in -- earning over ?50,000 should pay a tax of 50%
:22:24. > :22:30.rather than 45%. I have never heard an argument to half the threshold so
:22:31. > :22:34.that someone would be paying a tax rate design for multimillionaires. I
:22:35. > :22:38.think Labour have got this wrong and I would like to see the back of the
:22:39. > :22:44.cigarette packets on which the analysis which gives them a 6
:22:45. > :22:51.million spent in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. He bundled them
:22:52. > :22:54.altogether which shows the paucity of ambition Labour have for this
:22:55. > :22:58.country. The top rate of tax used to be higher than what Labour are
:22:59. > :23:02.proposing. Margaret Thatcher was prime minister then. Is there
:23:03. > :23:09.anything wrong in principle with increasing tax when it is required?
:23:10. > :23:16.I actually wasn't born in 1979 so I cannot remember those days. Take my
:23:17. > :23:20.word for it. Jeremy Corbyn is bringing forward plans for 48
:23:21. > :23:24.billion more in spending and the people will be paying for that and
:23:25. > :23:29.that is the ordinary hard-working people and businesses in terms of
:23:30. > :23:34.the huge hike in corporation tax which will put businesses of
:23:35. > :23:38.investing and cost jobs. The very people Jeremy Corbyn says it wants
:23:39. > :23:39.to help other ones he will hurt, ordinary hard-working people in
:23:40. > :23:48.Aberdeen. You want to end the ordinary hard-working people in
:23:49. > :23:56.sector pay cap, how much of the tax increase will go towards meeting
:23:57. > :23:59.this pay cap? In Scotland, where income tax is devolved to the
:24:00. > :24:05.Scottish Parliament, our policy is to spend it on education and mental
:24:06. > :24:12.health because education standards have fallen badly in Scotland and
:24:13. > :24:16.people, children for example are waiting 600 days for a mental health
:24:17. > :24:20.assessment which is completely unacceptable so more money has to go
:24:21. > :24:25.into education and mental health which is why we believe the Scottish
:24:26. > :24:30.Parliament should increase tax. We're out of time no, thank you very
:24:31. > :24:32.much for joining us today. -- time now.
:24:33. > :24:35.Now just before we go, our image of the day.
:24:36. > :24:37.It's not nice to laugh at a colleague so that's
:24:38. > :24:41.This is the BBC's Ben Brown keeping viewers abreast of the situation
:24:42. > :24:44.and getting a bit of a slap for his trouble.
:24:45. > :24:47.And that's Election Reporting Scotland.
:24:48. > :24:49.Tomorrow on the campaign trail Kezia Dugdale takes listeners
:24:50. > :24:52.questions on BBC Radio Scotland and the Lib Dems launch their UK
:24:53. > :24:54.Manifesto, plus there's childcare and ice cream.
:24:55. > :24:57.Laura McIver is here tomorrow at 10.30 for all of that.
:24:58. > :25:21.Good evening. The week ahead is fairly unsettled. Low pressure is
:25:22. > :25:26.whirling around us at times. Longer spells of rain and breezy but
:25:27. > :25:32.equally some sunshine, May sunshine is quite strong when it comes out.
:25:33. > :25:39.To end the day, dry and cleared and chilly overnight. Much cooler than
:25:40. > :25:45.my site. A dry and bright day. A few showers across the Hebrides with a
:25:46. > :25:51.breeze. Around eight in the morning, temperatures are around ten or 11
:25:52. > :25:54.Celsius, colder than this morning. Largely dry and bright but there
:25:55. > :26:02.will be a few showers across the west coast but mainly in the
:26:03. > :26:08.Hebrides. Winds generally light. Through the course of the day, it
:26:09. > :26:13.will remain la -- largely dry and bright. The showers holdall in the
:26:14. > :26:17.south-west, edging inland. A different story south of the border,
:26:18. > :26:22.they have a lot of rain and it will be a wet day through the wheels, the
:26:23. > :26:27.Midlands and Central and southern England. Humid temperatures in the
:26:28. > :26:34.south-east. That rain will be with them for most of the day. For us and
:26:35. > :26:40.for Northern Ireland it is a case of sunshine and showers. Showers are
:26:41. > :26:44.few and far between tomorrow, focused on the north and north-west.
:26:45. > :26:49.Temperatures down from today but pleasant with light winds. The rest
:26:50. > :26:55.of the afternoon into the evening, little change for us but downsize
:26:56. > :27:02.the rain remains, quite heavy in the Home Counties and East Anglia. Come
:27:03. > :27:04.Thursday, sunshine across the board with