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