:00:00. > :00:00.Good evening on Election Reporting Scotland tonight.
:00:07. > :00:10.The fallout from the first televised election debate of the campaign.
:00:11. > :00:12.Plus we'll discuss what the UK Conservative manifesto
:00:13. > :00:43.It's only three weeks until polling day, and the first televised
:00:44. > :00:46.election debate is now under our belts.
:00:47. > :00:48.Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn weren't there -
:00:49. > :00:51.but five leaders from the other main parties did take part in tonight's
:00:52. > :00:57.Our political correspondent David Porter was also watching
:00:58. > :01:13.Good evening from Salford, where it was a debate of the five, not the
:01:14. > :01:17.seven. Theresa May and as a consequence of her refusal to take
:01:18. > :01:21.part, Jeremy Corbyn, also decided they did not want to be part of this
:01:22. > :01:26.discussion tonight. It means that the two most plausible candidates to
:01:27. > :01:30.be Prime Minister on June the 9th were not present today. It also
:01:31. > :01:35.reflected the way that the debate went, because neither the studio
:01:36. > :01:39.audience, nor the candidates, could put questions to those two people.
:01:40. > :01:43.It meant as well that it very much changed the nature of the debate. As
:01:44. > :01:49.perhaps we expected, it started off on Brexit, with the exception of
:01:50. > :01:53.Ukip's Paul Nuttall, all the other four party leaders from the SNP,
:01:54. > :01:56.from Plaid Cymru, from the Greens and Liberal Democrats, said that in
:01:57. > :02:00.an ideal world they would want to remain part of Brexit. It was only
:02:01. > :02:04.Paul Nuttall who said that he believed the right thing had
:02:05. > :02:09.happened must be others pick top him by saying he was in effect acting as
:02:10. > :02:13.Theresa May's mouthpiece this evening -- the others picked on him.
:02:14. > :02:17.A number of the leaders were accused of wanting to embark on what they
:02:18. > :02:22.said was a hardline Brexit position. The debate moved on, as you would
:02:23. > :02:24.expect, to areas like health and education and the taxation system
:02:25. > :02:29.and what could be done to get Britain moving again. But crucially
:02:30. > :02:37.time after time, they wanted to refer to that issue of Brexit. What
:02:38. > :02:41.was Nicola Sturgeon's pitch? Nicola Sturgeon's pitch was one we have
:02:42. > :02:46.heard before in the campaign. Very simply that if Scotland wanted to be
:02:47. > :02:52.protected, in her words, it had to return a large block of SNP MPs to
:02:53. > :02:56.Westminster, to look after Scotland's future. She also hinted
:02:57. > :02:59.as well, when they were talking about Brexit and moving on to the
:03:00. > :03:04.whole independence question, that now was not the right time. Now, her
:03:05. > :03:10.Ames say she is in no way trying to delay what she would like, which is
:03:11. > :03:14.an independence referendum -- her assistants say. The Conservatives
:03:15. > :03:18.say she is trying to spin, they say she wants to avoid this issue in the
:03:19. > :03:21.run-up to June the 8th. David Porter, thank you.
:03:22. > :03:23.More from the campaign trail coming up, but first Alasdair Fraser has
:03:24. > :03:25.Thanks, Laura. Good evening.
:03:26. > :03:28.Police are treating an attack on a man in his car in Glasgow
:03:29. > :03:31.Steven Daniel was stabbed in the face in the early
:03:32. > :03:35.He is understood to be the nephew of gangland
:03:36. > :03:37.figure Jamie Daniel, who died last year.
:03:38. > :03:44.Rebecca Curran has been at the scene.
:03:45. > :03:51.Police say a 37-year-old man, understood to be Steven Daniel, also
:03:52. > :03:55.known as Bonzo, was driving his car on Craighall Road behind me, around
:03:56. > :03:58.midnight last night. Two cars started to chase him, they crashed
:03:59. > :04:02.into him and it was then he was attacked. Police initially said he
:04:03. > :04:05.was shot. This afternoon they clarified that and said they think
:04:06. > :04:13.that either and knife or a machete was used. He remained in hospital in
:04:14. > :04:16.a stable condition after receiving treatment for facial injuries. We
:04:17. > :04:19.understand that Steven Daniel is the nephew of gangland figure Jamie
:04:20. > :04:23.Daniel, who died last year, following a cancer battle. And the
:04:24. > :04:27.cousin of Robert Daniel, who was shot outside his home in Stepps two
:04:28. > :04:32.months ago. Police can't say at this stage whether or not this incident
:04:33. > :04:37.is linked to any other. Two vehicles have been found this afternoon. They
:04:38. > :04:41.were both set on fire. The police are still investigating whether or
:04:42. > :04:44.not they were linked to this incident. But officers are asking
:04:45. > :04:45.anyone with information to get in touch.
:04:46. > :04:48.An SNP minority administration is to lead Glasgow City Council -
:04:49. > :04:51.for the first time - after a meeting at City Chambers.
:04:52. > :04:52.Councillor Susan Aitken was elected unopposed
:04:53. > :04:56.But Councillors in Edinburgh and West Lothian have
:04:57. > :05:02.delayed their decision on who should form their administrations.
:05:03. > :05:05.An investigation has found that more than 80 per cent of a sea salt,
:05:06. > :05:07.said to have been produced in the Western Isles,
:05:08. > :05:12.The Food Standards Agency has criticised the Hebridean Sea
:05:13. > :05:15.Salt company for deceiving customers.
:05:16. > :05:20.The firm's owner has been unavailable for comment.
:05:21. > :05:22.Oysters are being introduced into the waters around Scotland -
:05:23. > :05:25.for the first time in more than 100 years.
:05:26. > :05:28.They became extinct due to overfishing in most areas
:05:29. > :05:32.A team from Herriot-Watt University has begun trials
:05:33. > :05:34.in the Dornoch Firth - where they hope to reintroduce
:05:35. > :05:42.Football, and Celtic marched on in the Premiership,
:05:43. > :05:44.with a comfortable win at Partick Thistle.
:05:45. > :05:46.Patrick Roberts - on loan from Manchester City -
:05:47. > :05:52.scored two great goals to make the final score 5-0.
:05:53. > :05:55.That's all from me - now back to Laura.
:05:56. > :05:58.The Conservatives launched their UK manifesto today, with Theresa May
:05:59. > :06:01.describing it as putting the interests of ordinary
:06:02. > :06:05.working people at the heart of everything government does.
:06:06. > :06:10.It proposes curbing net migration, taking longer to clear the deficit,
:06:11. > :06:16.and making pensions and pensioner benefits less generous.
:06:17. > :06:19.Well to discuss this I'm joined by a panel of pundits.
:06:20. > :06:21.Angela Haggerty, the editor of Common Space website.
:06:22. > :06:24.The political editor of the Daily Record,
:06:25. > :06:32.And in Edinburgh, the political commentator David Torrance.
:06:33. > :06:41.Good evening and not all. David Clegg, I'll come to you first. It's
:06:42. > :06:46.called Ford Together. I wonder what you make of the tone and headlines
:06:47. > :06:50.of the Tory manifesto? I think Theresa May is trying to pitch to
:06:51. > :06:54.the centre ground, recognising that the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn
:06:55. > :06:57.have gone to the left. It's a tactic actually that David Cameron and
:06:58. > :07:02.George Osborne were pursuing prior to the Brexit referendum, but the
:07:03. > :07:05.point about it is, is it legitimate, is it real, or is it pretends to the
:07:06. > :07:09.centre ground, because I think most of the policies and here, whilst
:07:10. > :07:12.there are some tokenistic moves towards the centre ground, we are
:07:13. > :07:17.still in a position where they will welfare frees, there will be the
:07:18. > :07:22.same attack on the poor, it will still be the same kind of position
:07:23. > :07:25.we were in before. So although she's making sounds about moving to the
:07:26. > :07:30.centre ground, I'm not sure I really buy it and also she is pursuing both
:07:31. > :07:38.Brexit process which is going to be very to the economy and also an
:07:39. > :07:43.immigration policy which is very, very damaging to the economy. Will
:07:44. > :07:49.come to that. David Torrance, it's Theresa May's first manifesto. Can
:07:50. > :07:58.you define any Mayism from Edgar she might it's tempting for pundits like
:07:59. > :08:03.myself to go after and ism. In the early days of Margaret Thatcher's
:08:04. > :08:06.government there was no such thing as Thatcherism, it emerged over
:08:07. > :08:11.time. There is some sort of philosophical consistency to what
:08:12. > :08:14.May is trying to do. If you know your Tory party history and I fully
:08:15. > :08:19.appreciate a lot of people don't have any history -- interest in
:08:20. > :08:24.that, they've always tacked to the centre in election time and made a
:08:25. > :08:30.cross-party pitch. They've often done extremely successfully, even in
:08:31. > :08:35.the late 19th century, the 1930s, again in the 1950s, so I think May
:08:36. > :08:39.is very much in that tradition. It is coherent, is it legitimate?
:08:40. > :08:44.That's a perfectly reasonable thing to ask. To my eyes and ears it's a
:08:45. > :08:49.sort of mishmash of left and right and omitting in between. Angela
:08:50. > :08:54.Haggerty, some of the proposed policies of course would apply here
:08:55. > :08:58.in Scotland, some of them wouldn't." Pensions board, is still a reserved
:08:59. > :09:03.issue. Do you think that will be a big issue in this election? It ought
:09:04. > :09:06.to be, but what is interesting as we will see in this election campaign
:09:07. > :09:11.the Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson try to keep this along
:09:12. > :09:14.the constitutional question lines, I think, and keep the debate in
:09:15. > :09:17.Scotland along those lines and they feel like they are much stronger
:09:18. > :09:21.ground if they can keep that being the main thread of the debate in
:09:22. > :09:26.Scotland. I think interestingly, what we did see in the Scottish Tory
:09:27. > :09:30.manifesto, was very little talk actually of Scotland and the talk of
:09:31. > :09:33.the Scottish second independence referendum, there's this issue of
:09:34. > :09:37.there being public consent for that. I think heading down the line we
:09:38. > :09:42.could be looking at a big fight between Westminster and Holyrood,
:09:43. > :09:46.has already passed consent to seek a second independence referendum. She
:09:47. > :09:50.didn't define what public consent meant. That's one of the more
:09:51. > :09:53.interesting things for Scotland and getting that definition of what that
:09:54. > :09:57.means and what is going to mean for the next couple of years as we head
:09:58. > :10:02.towards what Nicola Sturgeon would like to be a second referendum.
:10:03. > :10:06.Let's touch on to my's first televised leaders' debate, but
:10:07. > :10:11.without two leaders, David Clegg? Yes, they say there's no show
:10:12. > :10:15.without Punch, there's definitely no show without Punch and Judy, we
:10:16. > :10:18.discovered today. It was dismal, it was the most boring two hours of
:10:19. > :10:22.political television I can remember and that's saying something, and I
:10:23. > :10:27.don't think we learned a great deal. I think there was another problem.
:10:28. > :10:30.Because of the five leaders that were left, you had quite an odd
:10:31. > :10:35.combination of why Nicola Sturgeon, Leanne Wood and Caroline Lucas and
:10:36. > :10:39.Tim Farron agree on more than they disagree on, or most of the issues
:10:40. > :10:42.we were discussing there. So it was a very unusual debate and I don't
:10:43. > :10:45.think it would have helped anyone decide on who they want to vote for,
:10:46. > :10:50.come the election. David Torrance, what did you make of the
:10:51. > :10:54.performances? The points I felt I had slipped back in time and I was
:10:55. > :11:00.watching the 2050 leaders' debate, it was very similar, including some
:11:01. > :11:04.of the personnel. -- the 2015 leaders' debate. Nicola Sturgeon
:11:05. > :11:09.gave a perfectly solid performance. She gave out all the key SNP
:11:10. > :11:11.messages such as they are in this campaign. Paul Nuttall was the
:11:12. > :11:16.figure of fun in the same way that Nigel Farage was a couple of years
:11:17. > :11:20.ago. Leanne Wood pitched very directly to a Welsh audience. I
:11:21. > :11:26.don't think is added to the sum is very much. Angela, do the voters put
:11:27. > :11:30.anything into these debates, do you think? I think they do, but at the
:11:31. > :11:34.same time the two people who could become Prime Minister after this
:11:35. > :11:37.election weren't there. Those who will work -- those who were there
:11:38. > :11:41.will be pleased with their performances but there were no big
:11:42. > :11:45.punches landed. Thank you so much. More from us tomorrow and on Monday,
:11:46. > :11:57.with Stephen Jordan. Goodbye for now.
:11:58. > :12:02.Hello, good evening. It's been a day of sunshine and showers, but
:12:03. > :12:04.tonight, the showers fade to