:00:00. > :00:00.Here, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.
:00:00. > :00:00.Good evening on Election Reporting Scotland tonight.
:00:00. > :00:08.The Labour group on Aberdeen council is suspended from the party
:00:09. > :00:10.after forming a coalition with the Conservatives
:00:11. > :00:16.And the husband of murdered MP Jo Cox brings his
:00:17. > :00:42.message of tolerance and understanding to Scotland.
:00:43. > :00:47.Scottish Labour has suspended all of its councillors in Aberdeen
:00:48. > :00:52.It comes after they formed a coalition with the Conservatives
:00:53. > :00:55.against the orders of the party's ruling body.
:00:56. > :00:58.Party leader Kezia Dugdale said voters had a right to expect
:00:59. > :01:02.them to defend local services against cuts.
:01:03. > :01:14.Labour's 5.00 deadline came and went.
:01:15. > :01:17.Kezia Dugdale demanding the nine Labour councillors remove themselves
:01:18. > :01:25.I am disappointed because I have been a member of the Labour
:01:26. > :01:29.Our group took the decision we wanted to go into coalition
:01:30. > :01:33.because we feel it is best thing for the people of Aberdeen,
:01:34. > :01:36.we feel that we have negotiated a good deal with our partners
:01:37. > :01:39.which means that we have anti-austerity means
:01:40. > :01:44.within the programme that will be brought forward.
:01:45. > :01:48.The controversial development seen by many as the reason Labour got
:01:49. > :01:51.a thumping at the local elections but tonight they are back in power,
:01:52. > :02:00.A Labour Lord Provost was elected, nominated by Conservatives.
:02:01. > :02:12.The SNP, the biggest party left in opposition.
:02:13. > :02:16.What have seen is a dark day for democracy, the three
:02:17. > :02:21.It it was a day of comings and goings, the Tories giving up
:02:22. > :02:23.council leadership to Labour, despite being the bigger party.
:02:24. > :02:27.It is not the party with the most councillors that formed
:02:28. > :02:30.the coalition, but the group is coming together to have a strong
:02:31. > :02:32.partnership, so with 23 members I think it is fantastic
:02:33. > :02:38.Amid the turmoil the Liberal Democrats lost a councillor when one
:02:39. > :02:40.of theirs crossed the chamber to join the independents.
:02:41. > :02:43.I think there will be anger among a large proportion
:02:44. > :02:47.They will be angry there is no change.
:02:48. > :02:53.I am shocked at the behaviour of the Conservative Party and Labour.
:02:54. > :02:56.One member of the public has made their feelings known
:02:57. > :03:06.On the campaign trail tonight the Liberal Democrats have
:03:07. > :03:10.The party leader Tim Farron's called on voters to support them and ensure
:03:11. > :03:12.they get a choice about Britain's future relationship
:03:13. > :03:17.with Europe, with the promise of a new EU referendum.
:03:18. > :03:19.Other measures in the manifesto include proposals to restore housing
:03:20. > :03:25.benefit for 18 to 21 year olds, as well as ending the freeze
:03:26. > :03:28.on benefits and putting a penny in the pound in income tax to spend
:03:29. > :03:34.Well, I'm joined by a panel of top pundits.
:03:35. > :03:37.Tonight we've got the former Scottish Lib Dem policy convenor,
:03:38. > :03:40.Siobhan Mathers, the consulting editor of the National,
:03:41. > :03:47.Richard Walker and the journalist Katie Grant.
:03:48. > :03:57.Thanks for coming. First to the Liberal Democrat manifesto, is a
:03:58. > :04:03.Brexit one issue that the Lib Dems can really set themselves aside from
:04:04. > :04:07.the other parties? I would think that is true but they're not sure
:04:08. > :04:10.that is good because in the main the idea of conducting another
:04:11. > :04:17.referendum on Brexit is not terribly attractive to voters. Many remain
:04:18. > :04:21.voters of which I was one would not welcome another referendum and also
:04:22. > :04:26.it makes a very difficult negotiation with Europe if Europe is
:04:27. > :04:32.thinking added a schoolteacher call this away? Enough is enough I think
:04:33. > :04:37.we need to move forward. Do you agree there would be a sense of
:04:38. > :04:43.that? I am grateful to the Liberal Democrats to offer some hope as they
:04:44. > :04:47.claim that they have absolutely no hope of this manifesto into action
:04:48. > :04:49.because they will not form the next Government and they have ruled out
:04:50. > :04:54.coalition with the Conservatives and even a coalition with the Labour
:04:55. > :04:58.Party is unlikely to form a majority so well there are some good points
:04:59. > :05:03.and the manifesto, mental health improvements are among those, I
:05:04. > :05:06.think in general there is not a hope in hell that they will be able to
:05:07. > :05:10.put any of these plans into action. Do you think it is a broad base of
:05:11. > :05:15.voters that this manifesto is trying to reach out to? The is
:05:16. > :05:20.traditionally middle-class and highly student. If you look at the
:05:21. > :05:24.detail of the manifesto there is something for everybody. There is
:05:25. > :05:33.detail from want than usual grants to banning diesel cars to rolling
:05:34. > :05:37.back benefit cuts, the problem is that nobody is actually listening to
:05:38. > :05:42.that detail, they are focusing on the Europe question and here in
:05:43. > :05:44.Scotland on the constitutional question so it is a little bit
:05:45. > :05:54.difficult to actually cut through the noise at the moment. I wonder
:05:55. > :05:58.how liberal it is? There is stuff about voting reforms, introducing
:05:59. > :06:01.single transferable vote to MPs and House of Lords reformed with the
:06:02. > :06:06.democratic mandate, do you think those will be popular? I think most
:06:07. > :06:11.people would find something to agree with them in that but I think they
:06:12. > :06:15.are not top of most people's priority list. In terms of the
:06:16. > :06:18.liberal credentials, they have gone back to the liberalisation of
:06:19. > :06:21.cannabis, the legalisation of cannabis and this time they have
:06:22. > :06:27.added an economic part of that but it will be raise ?1 billion, not
:06:28. > :06:30.quite sure what effect it will have on the economy if everyone is
:06:31. > :06:38.stunned and unable to get out of bed. And what about the penny in the
:06:39. > :06:46.pound on income tax which with that be enough? I would really like a
:06:47. > :06:50.political party not to talk about the NHS so much in terms of money
:06:51. > :06:53.because we can put all the money in the universe into the NHS and it
:06:54. > :07:00.still would work properly because that is the way life is. I would
:07:01. > :07:03.think it is far better if the Democrats had really thought about
:07:04. > :07:11.how to have a different attitude towards the NHS, and we only to
:07:12. > :07:15.think about the NHS so any political party, not just the Liberal
:07:16. > :07:20.Democrats will stop this is an old message that the bulk of more to the
:07:21. > :07:24.NHS but at every election it comes up as an issue so this is giving it
:07:25. > :07:30.for money isn't really the way forward. The wider picture, the Lib
:07:31. > :07:34.Dems now have a new leader, the coalition is now a couple of years
:07:35. > :07:39.behind them but have they will they be able to shake off that legacy?
:07:40. > :07:43.It's difficult. Political memories are wrong, there are those voters
:07:44. > :07:47.out there who still have not forgiven in the party for the
:07:48. > :07:54.coalition with the Conservatives but at least in ten Brexit does provide
:07:55. > :07:56.a new agenda and the party is finding there are plenty out there
:07:57. > :08:00.who are disappointed with Brexit and the failure of the Conservatives and
:08:01. > :08:08.Labour to really stand up for Brexit. There are a core of voters
:08:09. > :08:16.and remember the Lib Dems are not expecting to win a majority, there
:08:17. > :08:21.is enough to increase the number of MPs. Moving on to the Labour story,
:08:22. > :08:27.how do you think the story in Aberdeen is making Labour look?
:08:28. > :08:33.Disastrous for them. I think Kezia Dugdale has done the right thing but
:08:34. > :08:35.it speaks volumes about the discipline within the party that
:08:36. > :08:40.Labour councillors can just ignore the party ruling and form a Cornish
:08:41. > :08:44.and with the Conservatives and it speaks volumes about the standard of
:08:45. > :08:47.candidate they had in those elections at the first sniff of
:08:48. > :08:51.power they could deal the ditch the principles and form an alliance and
:08:52. > :08:59.I think what is welcome to the obvious conclusion. A quick reaction
:09:00. > :09:06.from you on Aberdeen kitty. I agree, this is not a surprise from the
:09:07. > :09:09.Labour Party is in disarray, how they think it will help the general
:09:10. > :09:13.election prospects, I have no idea. Thank you. Sock
:09:14. > :09:16.More from the campaign trail coming up, but first Catriona has
:09:17. > :09:17.Thanks, Laura. Good evening.
:09:18. > :09:20.Unemployment in Scotland has fallen by 14,000 in the last
:09:21. > :09:25.But the world of work is changing, with more people now earning money
:09:26. > :09:28.through the so-called "gig economy" where one-off services like taxi
:09:29. > :09:32.rides and takeaway meals are arranged by mobile phone.
:09:33. > :09:37.Our political correspondent Andrew Kerr has this report.
:09:38. > :09:41.This massage therapist is enjoying her new career
:09:42. > :09:52.Being self-employed, Elizabeth is her own boss.
:09:53. > :09:55.She doesn't receive sick pay or paid holidays but there is freedom.
:09:56. > :09:59.I think if I sat down with somebody, and spoke about the plus points
:10:00. > :10:02.and also the challenges of being self-employed,
:10:03. > :10:04.to being on a payroll we could probably come up
:10:05. > :10:07.we the same amount of items on each list, albeit
:10:08. > :10:14.There has been a rise in traditional self-employment like this
:10:15. > :10:23.At the swipe of a screen, with the new gig economy.
:10:24. > :10:28.Big companies link workers to customers for a one officer
:10:29. > :10:33.It's sold as giving workers more control but the reality for an Uber
:10:34. > :10:36.We don't set our own fare, we are not in control
:10:37. > :10:39.of our own earnings, we have to do it the Uber
:10:40. > :10:45.But on the highways of Glasgow, Uber put us in touch with one driver
:10:46. > :10:50.who sees the benefits of working for himself and the company.
:10:51. > :10:53.You press a button you are working, you press a button and you stop
:10:54. > :10:55.working, nobody is there telling you what to do.
:10:56. > :11:00.That is the foundation of flexible working as far as I'm concerned.
:11:01. > :11:04.There is currently an independent review into the gig economy.
:11:05. > :11:06.In this election the parties are making various promises
:11:07. > :11:10.round increasing workers' right and better pay.
:11:11. > :11:12.Budding Chancellors will want to make sure they don't
:11:13. > :11:18.miss out on tax revenue as self employment increases.
:11:19. > :11:21.If the next UK Government tries to address some of these issues
:11:22. > :11:23.round differences in tax treatment, between the self-employed
:11:24. > :11:28.and employees that has to go alongside changes in the employment
:11:29. > :11:37.rights of people working in the self employment sector.
:11:38. > :11:39.So as office staff enjoy a lunchtime rest in George Square,
:11:40. > :11:42.politicians in this general election campaign are working hard,
:11:43. > :11:52.to try to adapt to this changing world of employment.
:11:53. > :11:54.A child's travel mug has been withdrawn from sale across Europe
:11:55. > :11:58.by the Disney Store after a seven year old girl from Kirkintilloch
:11:59. > :12:02.Hospital staff had to use bolt cutters, a hacksaw
:12:03. > :12:07.and a drill to remove the screw-top cup from Megan Donald's mouth.
:12:08. > :12:09.The company said it was an unfortunate incident
:12:10. > :12:13.that they had taken seriously by immediately stopping sales
:12:14. > :12:19.A man who planned to end his life at a Switzerland suicide clinic next
:12:20. > :12:23.month is to reconsider the decision after being encouraged by a fellow
:12:24. > :12:30.56 year old Colin Campbell from Inverness says he feels more
:12:31. > :12:32.optimistic after being contacted by a local woman whose condition
:12:33. > :12:36.Both have called for more support for those affected
:12:37. > :12:55.My situation was extremely bleak. And this has given me is some kind
:12:56. > :13:01.of optimism which I definitely didn't have. I could see Colin the
:13:02. > :13:04.way I used to be and I just wanted to give him every chance.
:13:05. > :13:06.Football, and Inverness are still in with a chance
:13:07. > :13:08.of avoiding automatic relegation from the Premiership,
:13:09. > :13:10.Elsewhere, Aberdeen beat Rangers at Ibrox,
:13:11. > :13:17.It's almost a year since MP Jo Cox was murdered in her
:13:18. > :13:22.constituency in West Yorkshire by a far right extremist.
:13:23. > :13:25.At the time, her husband, Brendan, warned of the dangers of allowing
:13:26. > :13:29.intimidation and abuse to subvert the political process.
:13:30. > :13:32.Today he brought that message to Scotland.
:13:33. > :13:35.Leaders of all the main parties broke off from campaigning
:13:36. > :13:41.to meet him and hear his message of tolerance and understanding.
:13:42. > :13:49.For Election Reporting Scotland, he also spoke to Stephen Jardine.
:13:50. > :13:58.Brendan Cox, it is a year since your wife, Jo has died, what have the
:13:59. > :14:02.last few months been like? The hardest of our lives and we feel we
:14:03. > :14:06.are in the early stages of it. We are still coming to terms with
:14:07. > :14:10.what's happened and the permanence of it, which, I think, you don't
:14:11. > :14:20.fully appreciate at the beginning. And the grief keeps coming. It keeps
:14:21. > :14:25.coming in waves. But the kids are resilient, and they are still
:14:26. > :14:30.enjoying life. The thing I said when Jo died, the most important thing I
:14:31. > :14:34.wanted to do is make sure our kids felt loved and secure which they do.
:14:35. > :14:40.The response of the public right across the country has been immense
:14:41. > :14:47.which has given us some solace. I've said once or twice that on that day,
:14:48. > :14:51.when Jo was killed, there was one act of supreme evil but, since then,
:14:52. > :14:55.there have been tens of thousands, millions of acts of compassion from
:14:56. > :15:01.people we didn't know, from people we do know, that have given us
:15:02. > :15:06.incredible kindness and generosity and have helped us cope with this.
:15:07. > :15:10.In Scotland, politics became particularly polarised during the
:15:11. > :15:17.independence referendum campaign. When does passion in politics become
:15:18. > :15:24.a problem? Passion in politics isn't a problem at all. I think hatred in
:15:25. > :15:30.politics is a problem. At when you start to build group -based
:15:31. > :15:37.identities of hating the person not in your group, whether it's people
:15:38. > :15:40.that don't vote your way, whether it is the independence referendum,
:15:41. > :15:46.Brexit, the colour of your skin, your faith, that is the problem, we
:15:47. > :15:53.have to drive hatred out while maintaining passion. We disagree on
:15:54. > :15:57.many things, on which football team we support or which way we vote in a
:15:58. > :16:02.referendum, that's normal. What isn't normal is that turning to
:16:03. > :16:08.hatred, people fixating on that and defining the other as the enemy. And
:16:09. > :16:11.I think sometimes certainly in recent years politics has fallen
:16:12. > :16:18.into that trap too often and I hope in this election and in future
:16:19. > :16:22.referendums, and in public life, we get better at the passionate without
:16:23. > :16:28.allowing hatred from the extremes to seep in because that isn't what
:16:29. > :16:33.resonates with people. It's a tiny minority of extremists but they are
:16:34. > :16:37.given too much purchase in the political debate. Thinking about
:16:38. > :16:42.social media, Brendan, there is a responsibility on all of us when it
:16:43. > :16:46.comes to behave you. Absolutely and I think social media sometimes
:16:47. > :16:50.because of the anonymity of it, sometimes because how should you
:16:51. > :16:53.have to be with responses, it can polarised in an unhelpful way.
:16:54. > :16:55.Brendan Cox, thank you very much. Let's talk to our politicians now,
:16:56. > :16:58.we've got Scottish Labour candidate I'm joined by the SNP
:16:59. > :17:02.candidate Hannah Bardell, the Scottish Lib Dem
:17:03. > :17:03.MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton, and the Scottish Conservative
:17:04. > :17:18.MSP Graham Simpson. Good evening to you all and thanks
:17:19. > :17:21.for joining us. Blair, people in Aberdeen have been left with no
:17:22. > :17:26.representation on the council as a result of the suspensions, is it
:17:27. > :17:33.serving Labour voters well? It is one of the situations where we as a
:17:34. > :17:40.Labour Party have to consider to work with parties we disagree with.
:17:41. > :17:45.The Labour Party is sending a signal that we won't put local services in
:17:46. > :17:48.jeopardy. There is a pretty strong disagreement between the part be
:17:49. > :17:52.locally and nationally but I think Kezia Dugdale did the right thing to
:17:53. > :17:56.say we are not going to countenance deals with people who are going to
:17:57. > :18:00.cut local services, which is what people would expect from the Labour
:18:01. > :18:07.Party. After the 2012 local elections, there was a Labour-
:18:08. > :18:11.conservative- independent coalition, so why is it now OK now? There are
:18:12. > :18:16.deals all the way across Scotland between different parties, who have
:18:17. > :18:20.different worldviews but the principle that we set out which is
:18:21. > :18:24.right after such a hit a few years of cuts from both Westminster and
:18:25. > :18:28.the Scottish government that we are clear we won't do deals with parties
:18:29. > :18:32.that are going to cut local services. Graham Simpson, what is
:18:33. > :18:37.your reaction to today's suspensions? I think it is
:18:38. > :18:43.absolutely extraordinary what's happened. My own party would not
:18:44. > :18:46.interfere with anything, any of our council group stood because we
:18:47. > :18:53.believe in localism. What Kezia Dugdale has done today is strive
:18:54. > :18:59.coach and horses through that concept in the Labour Party. It is
:19:00. > :19:04.quite extraordinary that Labour are prepared to do deals with the SNP in
:19:05. > :19:10.certain councils. Kezia Dugdale is saying that the Unionist coalition
:19:11. > :19:14.is not OK. And the voters throughout Scotland and in Aberdeen will be
:19:15. > :19:22.utterly confused by this. Let me ask you something the BBC has heard
:19:23. > :19:25.about this evening about the head of the Tory manifesto, that Theresa May
:19:26. > :19:29.is going to make a commitment to bring immigration down to the tens
:19:30. > :19:35.of thousands target. I wonder what your reaction is to that and the
:19:36. > :19:42.justification to that? Obviously, I haven't seen the manifesto. Theresa
:19:43. > :19:47.May will know what is in it and I don't. But that sounds like a good
:19:48. > :19:54.target to aim for. It has been a target missed since 2010. When we
:19:55. > :19:56.leave the European Union, we will be able to control immigration far
:19:57. > :20:02.better than we've been able to up until now. There is a call for
:20:03. > :20:05.higher immigration in Scotland, it is something that has been
:20:06. > :20:13.encouraged for the economy here so would voters not welcome it here? We
:20:14. > :20:17.are part of the UK and Blair McDougall and I've fought on the
:20:18. > :20:22.same side in the campaign to keep us in the United Kingdom. Voters in
:20:23. > :20:26.Scotland agreed with us then, so I think if we are part of the United
:20:27. > :20:32.Kingdom, then the immigration policy has to be UK wide. Kebab, the
:20:33. > :20:38.Liberal Democrats launch their manifesto today with the call for a
:20:39. > :20:42.second EU referendum on the Brexited deal that ends up being offered, is
:20:43. > :20:49.its democratic to ignore that first vote? On the 23rd of June last year
:20:50. > :20:53.the British people voted by a small majority for a departure but not a
:20:54. > :20:59.destination. Within hours we saw a lot of the prospectus from the leave
:21:00. > :21:04.campaign evaporate. The ?350 million for the NHS on the side of the bus
:21:05. > :21:08.was gone by the morning. We believe when the terms of this deal are in
:21:09. > :21:12.place, the people best place to decide on those terms are the
:21:13. > :21:15.British people themselves. They started this process and they should
:21:16. > :21:20.finish it and they should be offered a second option on the ballot paper
:21:21. > :21:23.which is to remain in the European Union and that's what my party will
:21:24. > :21:28.campaign for. Do you think that might affect the negotiation
:21:29. > :21:33.process, though, if it is deemed the UK is dipping its toe in? Not in the
:21:34. > :21:37.slightest. It is a sensible and democratic process by which Britain
:21:38. > :21:41.can get to decide what Britain wants to do. People should be given the
:21:42. > :21:45.opportunity to be asked again, is it really what you meant when you told
:21:46. > :21:49.us he wanted Brexit? When the reality sets in when we see
:21:50. > :21:54.ourselves potentially adrift, isolated without a trade agreement,
:21:55. > :21:58.with all the implication that means for our expats, for people that live
:21:59. > :22:05.here, they will actually want to think again and not leave it to
:22:06. > :22:11.compile Tory MPs at the top of the Conservative government. The SNP
:22:12. > :22:19.oppose Brexit, Hannah Bardell, so would you support a second vote? We
:22:20. > :22:22.put in our manifesto in the 2016 Scottish elections that if Scotland
:22:23. > :22:27.was taken out of the EU against its well, we would seek to give people
:22:28. > :22:37.in Scotland a choice between a hard Tory Brexit and a choice of Scotland
:22:38. > :22:45.remaining in the single market. We've just seen I think a very
:22:46. > :22:48.moving piece by Brendan Cox and I think with everything happening it
:22:49. > :22:54.is important to take a moment and reflect where we are. I actually sat
:22:55. > :22:57.alongside Jo Cox in the House of Commons and I took part in the
:22:58. > :23:06.target of war with her. I didn't know her well but I was able to be
:23:07. > :23:11.in the same choir is her and we owe it to her memory to say where we can
:23:12. > :23:16.find common cause, I'm looking at the manifesto Pramac of the various
:23:17. > :23:21.parties, we will disagree on many things, but there will be things we
:23:22. > :23:28.can agree on and work together on. You don't have to always be in a
:23:29. > :23:31.formal coalition. The SNP went into a minority coalition in 2007 and we
:23:32. > :23:37.were able to work together with other parties. The public want to
:23:38. > :23:39.see that and they understand there will be disagreements and
:23:40. > :23:43.differences of opinion but it is about having a respectful
:23:44. > :23:47.disagreement. The question I was putting to you is when we have a
:23:48. > :23:53.Brexit deal, would it make sense to have a second vote on that, to give
:23:54. > :23:57.people a boat on the actual outcome on Brexit? That doesn't respect,
:23:58. > :24:02.performing, the way voted in Scotland. What is important is that
:24:03. > :24:07.Scotland's place in the single market is protected, and that is
:24:08. > :24:12.what we have very much proposed, and that's what we will continue to
:24:13. > :24:16.stand up for in Westminster. We have a general election upon us, and we
:24:17. > :24:22.have, unfortunately, a government that doesn't have a plan going into
:24:23. > :24:27.Brexit. It didn't put forward a proper prospectus and we know
:24:28. > :24:33.already it has no plan if there is no deal which is a terrifying
:24:34. > :24:38.prospect. That's why the SNP wants to protect Scotland's place and
:24:39. > :24:42.Nicola Sturgeon said clearly that if we win the election in Scotland, we
:24:43. > :24:44.will have a mandate to put on the table. Thank you for joining us.
:24:45. > :24:45.And that's Election Reporting Scotland.
:24:46. > :24:49.The Conservative UK manifesto, Scottish Lib Dem leader
:24:50. > :24:51.Willie Rennie is on Good Morning Scotland, and the First Leader's
:24:52. > :24:55.So, join us again tomorrow night at 10:30pm for all of that.
:24:56. > :25:13.Largely dry conditions across the country with some heavy showers in
:25:14. > :25:16.the south-west and drifting northwards but by tomorrow morning
:25:17. > :25:20.most of those will have gone. Perhaps if you morning showers for
:25:21. > :25:25.the Hebrides, elsewhere reasonably dry tomorrow, some sunny spells,
:25:26. > :25:28.some cloud, some passing showers through Lanarkshire and
:25:29. > :25:33.Stirlingshire and Highland Perthshire but temperatures tomorrow
:25:34. > :25:38.morning, 9-10, with the sunshine it is a pleasant start. The showers
:25:39. > :25:41.towards sky and the Western Isles, drifting inland through the day,
:25:42. > :25:45.perhaps some light showers to start things off across the Northern
:25:46. > :25:49.Isles. Heading through tomorrow, we see the showers in the west edging
:25:50. > :25:53.eastwards. They will increase in number and also in intensity
:25:54. > :25:58.becoming quite heavy across the north-east for a time by early to
:25:59. > :26:01.mid afternoon. South of the border, a few showers around but probably
:26:02. > :26:08.unlucky if you catch one. Plenty of fine weather with those showers, and
:26:09. > :26:12.temperatures up to 20 in the south-east. Plenty of showers for
:26:13. > :26:17.Northern Ireland. Let's take a closer look at home. By
:26:18. > :26:21.mid-afternoon, 4pm, those heavier showers across the Northeast, Halen
:26:22. > :26:25.fund in the mix so if you get caught in one, difficult conditions on the
:26:26. > :26:32.roads. A few heavy showers edging into the south-west as well by the
:26:33. > :26:36.end of the day, but they ease off heading overnight. Looking ahead
:26:37. > :26:41.towards Friday, low pressure out in the Atlantic feeding in some showers
:26:42. > :26:48.into the West. It edges up the North Sea giving wet weather for the East
:26:49. > :26:53.of Scotland. The North of England wet and East Anglia as well. Taking
:26:54. > :26:56.a closer look at us by mid-afternoon, some light showers
:26:57. > :26:58.but there's the rain clipping the East Coast. If you avoid the rain
:26:59. > :27:07.and showers, reasonably With the general election
:27:08. > :27:08.approaching, with the leaders from six
:27:09. > :27:12.Scottish political parties going head-to-head before you, the voters,
:27:13. > :27:12.in the Scottish Leaders' Debate. with the leaders from six
:27:13. > :27:12.Scottish political parties going head-to-head before you, the voters,
:27:13. > :27:17.in the Scottish Leaders' Debate.