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champions his legacy hangs in the balance. Dan Rowan, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
On Election Reporting Scotland tonight: | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Going head to head just over a week before polling day, | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
And the Scottish Lib Dems launch their manifesto, | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
Just over a week to go until polling day and one of the biggest debates | :00:16. | :00:45. | |
of the election campaign has just taken place. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Theresa May refused to take part in the BBC debate, | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
but Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn did decide to take part, | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
announcing his decision earlier today. | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
Lets go live to Cambridge and our Political Correspondent | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
That's right. Good evening from the Senate house here in Cambridge where | :00:59. | :01:14. | |
the debate has taken place just over an hour ago. 19 minutes of | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
discussion in which the dynamics of the debate changed when Jeremy | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Corbyn announced at lunchtime today that he would, after all, take part | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
in today's debate. Theresa May made it plain that she would not come, | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
despite the fact that Jeremy Corbyn decided he would attend the debate. | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
It meant that at times it was six against one, the opposition parties | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
against the Conservatives, and making great play as to why Theresa | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
May was not here. As you say, no Nicola Sturgeon either. The SNP was | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
represented by Angus Robertson. Officials say he is the man that has | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
been at Westminster and is used to dealing with the Westminster | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
situation, and is used to challenging Westminster politicians. | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
If Theresa May had decided to turn up, the SNP would have had a hard | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
thing, and the possibility that Nicola Sturgeon would have taken | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
part in tonight's debate. That did not happen. It was one of those | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
debates where all of them will be quite happy with the way things | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
went. They were able to get across the key points they wanted. There | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
was no gaffe from any of the seven politicians, to cause problems, and | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
with a week ago, they also to perhaps win over some of the | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
undecided voters. It was fairly heated | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
at moments, particularly on | :02:42. | :02:42. | |
the subject of immigration? It was a very passionate 90 minutes. | :02:43. | :02:52. | |
It was noisy, it was shouting at times. It seemed as though it was | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
hard to control the politicians, because they were going at it hammer | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
and tongs on a range of issues. But as you mentioned, immigration proved | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
to be quite a passionate issue. In the Scottish context, no one seemed | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
to disagree as far as Scotland was concerned, immigration and the | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
number of people coming to Scotland were a problem. The argument was | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
very much the reverse, that Scotland had been losing its population. It | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
was said that immigration was not a problem in Scotland. The problem | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
with Scotland was emigration. In other parts of the UK, a slightly | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
different view on that one. Of all the subjects discussed tonight, | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
social care, security matters, Brexit, immigration was one of the | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
topics that raised the temperature. David, thank you so much. | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
Now, the Scottish Lib Dems have launched their manifesto today, | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
with leader Willie Rennie telling BBC Scotland that his party | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
is set to make "great progress" in the election. | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
Here's our political editor Brian Taylor. | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
Scotland's capital, reefs in sunshine as if it weren't tough | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
enough already to get people to focus on politics. But easing | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
through the lunchtime crowds, Willie Rennie thinks he has found the | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
formula. Picking apart his party's logo, he says the final Brexit deal | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
must be put to another referendum. The option of staying in the EU. Is | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
there another bit? But a second referendum on Scottish independence, | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
it's a bird that won't fly. The SNP need to focus on the day job. That's | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
why the Liberal Democrats are saying clearly, we are against a second | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
divisive independence referendum, 4- stop. The | :04:40. | :04:50. | |
MPs can't alter income tax, because that is devolved. Among other | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
things, the Lib Dems would end the 1% pay cap, affecting public-sector | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
employees. They would keep the triple lock on pensions, and provide | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
guarantees to EU residents already in Scotland. Largely aimed at | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
helping the universities. Post-oil, they would help the north-east | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
economy to diversify. They paint a picture of a struggling economy, | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
promising to boost growth, while eliminating the day-to-day deficit | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
by 2020. They say they will make a positive case for immigration, but | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
can they gain ground in Scotland? Lib Dems, it is a direct contest | :05:31. | :05:38. | |
between us and the SNP. I know we are going to make great progress and | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
grow in the election, because we are crucial to stopping that second | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
divisive independence referendum before it even starts. But of | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
course, the UK wide elections are fought street by street. Liberal | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
Democrats hope that pavement politics will work for them once | :05:56. | :05:56. | |
more. we've got the former | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
Scottish Lib Dem policy convenor, Siobhan Mathers, Angela Haggerty, | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
the editor of Common Space website; and the Political Editor | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
of the Daily Record, David Clegg, Good evening to you all. Let's start | :06:12. | :06:20. | |
off with the debate, because it is fresh this evening. What did you | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
make of it, was it an easier watch than the ITV debate? At parts, the | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
politicians were remarkably well-behaved. Something got the | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
passions running, and it went back to talking over each other. But it | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
was interesting, if you take away from it. Theresa May didn't come out | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
of it looking very well. There was a question at the end about what each | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
leader had in leadership qualities that should make them the Prime | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
Minister. Of course, everybody took the opportunity to have a go at | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
Theresa May for not turning up. That went on for minutes. Jeremy Corbyn, | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
I think, it was a bit risky for him to turn up at the last minute, | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
because there was a risk that the other party leaders might round up | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
on him, but I think he dealt with that as well as he could have done. | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
And I think, again, he seems to have, judging by social media at | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
this stage, it seems to have gone down quite well. Another you got | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
Paul has come out tonight, and it is putting the difference between the | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
Tories and Labour at three points. The Jeremy Corbyn effect is what we | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
are talking about, and we expect to be talking about Angus Robertson for | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
the SNP. He is always competent and delivers well. Whether he will have | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
the same impact as Nicola Sturgeon, I'm not quite sure. Sherborne, what | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
did you make of Jeremy Corbyn's performance, given that it was a | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
last-minute decision to join the debate? Jeremy Corbyn looks like he | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
is having fun in this campaign. He is warming up, he has nothing to | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
lose. He is entering into the spirit of it. That is really showing. The | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
fact he is there, making an effort, it was basically him saying, "Where | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
is Theresa May?" That went down very well, and it looked like he was | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
enjoying it. It wasn't perfect, but not bad. David Clay, how much was | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
Theresa May's absence and issue? It was referred to. It absolutely was. | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
The most memorable moment of the debate didn't take place during the | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
debate, it happened earlier when Theresa May was asked in an | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
interview about it, and gave a pathetic answer about why she wasn't | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
there because she was concentrating on Brexit. I think it undermined | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
what is, after all, the central message of the Conservative | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
campaign. Theresa May was not strong and stable enough to turn up at a TV | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
debate. Jeremy Corbyn made the right position to capitalise on that. He | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
has had the momentum in the last few days, the polls are narrowing will | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
to turn up and take that home, the one disappointing thing for him may | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
be, once he got onto the debate, he didn't make that much hay regarding | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
Theresa May being there. I think it was Angus Robertson that made more | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
of that. That go to the other story today, the Scottish Lib Dems | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
launching their manifesto. They, like the UK wide party, would put a | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
penny on income tax. Here, that would be used for mental health and | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
education. Down south, it will beat NHS and social care, why the | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
difference? The Lib Dems have always had the capacity to make policy | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
separately, and we are quite proud of that. It is where the greatest | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
need is. Up in Scotland, the priorities we have our education, it | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
is dropping down the rankings. That is what we hear on the doorsteps. | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
And mental health is shocking. There is a real opportunity to make a | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
difference in Scotland. So that is why. What did you make of the | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
Scottish Lib Dem manifesto? Actually, I was quite surprised | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
about how it really struggle to break through. Again, judging by | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
social media, at manifesto launches, they picked up traction, and I saw a | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
bit more about the Scottish Ukip manifesto launch, than the Scottish | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
Lib Dem one. It reflects how the Lib Dems, much like Scottish Labour, are | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
struggling still to find where they fit within the constitutional | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
debate, and that is the thing dominating the general election in | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
Scotland. It is tricky for Willie Rennie as well, because he is | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
backing this manifesto, and a referendum on Brexit terms, but they | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
are mentally opposed to a second Scottish independence referendum. It | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
is a conflict for the Lib Dems that they will have to keep explaining. | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
Willie Rennie will find it quite tricky. Onto the Ukip manifesto, | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
which was also launched today in Scotland, what did you make of... It | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
was 32 pages, it was number light, if you like, if you give and policy | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
things, but what now, post Brexit, can Ukip offer? Ukip are offering | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
almost nothing across the UK, even more heightened in Scotland where | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
they are hamstrung by a leader that is effectively a joke to Angela may | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
have seen a lot about the Ukip manifesto being launched on Twitter | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
today, but almost all of it will have been mockery. It has not been | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
taken seriously by anyone except for the three people who launched it, I | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
think. There is really no chance of any Ukip breakthrough. Everybody | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
knows they are entirely irrelevant to the political debate here, and I | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
don't think it will be going anywhere. OK. Thank you, all, for | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
joining us this evening. More from the campaign | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
trail coming up. But first, Anne Lundon has | :11:49. | :11:49. | |
the rest of today's news. The Scottish child abuse inquiry has | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
heard a succession of apologies, from a variety of organisations, | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
that provided residential care. Our reporter Morag Kinniburgh | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
was there as the public hearing phase of the investigation | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
got underway. in memory of victims of child abuse | :12:06. | :12:15. | |
who have died. Survivors want justice and action to protect | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
children now. I was ignored in 1998. Over the years, I met and heard of | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
many survivors who were the same. Once have changed. Scotland's | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
changed. Child abuse has changed. Reporting and recognising child | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
abuse has changed. I welcome you to the first day of phase one of our | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
public hearings. The enquiry has suffered a series of resignations | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
and criticism on the scope of its remit. Many children in Scotland | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
have, over the years, been abused whilst in residential care. They | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
suffered some terrible treatment, inflicted by those to whom their | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
care was entrusted. That is a matter of grave concern. So far, 69 | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
institutions here have been investigated, from private boarding | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
schools and hospitals, to counsel, church and charity care homes. It is | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
thought thousands suffered abuse as well as neglect by those who were | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
meant to be looking after them. In the first public hearings, churches | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
and charities said sorry to children abused in their care. The Catholic | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
community in Scotland has an overwhelming sense of shame that | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
these abhorrent crimes occurred in the context of the church. And we | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
are doing our utmost to ensure these things cart occur again. Kate Waugh | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
seven when she was taken from Glasgow to Northern Ireland and was | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
abused. She has come back to testify. Most people have got a | :13:50. | :13:58. | |
right to justice. They need to have their voice heard. Don't be | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
frightened to come forward because it's a great feeling afterwards, the | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
feeling of peace within. Survivors are due to give evidence in the | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
months ahead, they are urging thousands more to break their | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
silence to help protect children in care now. Ukip has published its | :14:16. | :14:24. | |
Scottish general election manifesto. It says its priorities are to | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
encourage Scots to stay in Scotland, build their businesses and employ | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
their fellow Scots. The party is fielding ten candidates in Scotland. | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
The message is we want taxes now higher than the rest of the UK to | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
make sure we are competitive. We want to stay in the UK and get out | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
of the EU single market so we can make trade treaties with the world | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
so we can get more jobs because we can do business with the growing | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
areas of the world instead of having to refer to 27 other states and | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
creative treaty that doesn't suit us. Staying with the election | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
campaign and health think tank has warned that tens of thousands of UK | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
pensioners living abroad could come home for NHS treatment unless the | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
Brexit deal secures continued access to EU health care for expats. The | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
Nuffield trust says there are 190,000 UK pensioners living in | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
other EU countries. The UK Government contributes around ?500 | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
million a year towards their health care costs. Nuffield estimates it | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
would cost the NHS another ?500 million to look after them if Brexit | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
forced them to return home. On the campaign trail and five, the SNP say | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
health care is a snapshot of Brexit problems to come. We have a | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
government that still can't answer basic questions on what they are | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
seeking to achieve in the law stations and how they're going to | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
help our public services -- negotiations. And our economy deal | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
with it implications. Liberal Democrats said if there is a bad | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
Brexit deal, voter should get the chance to rejected. There are no | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
easy fixes according to Labour's Scottish leader campaigning in | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
Glasgow. This is a sorry mess caused by the Tories's gabble on hard right | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
wing Brexit. If you vote for Labour you have a party focused on jobs, | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
investment in the economy up taking the NHS, that's the difference | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
between Labour and the Tories and that is the real choice in this | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
selection. An Angus, the Conservative leader insisted her | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
party is best placed to negotiate with the EU. This report shows we | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
have to get the Brexit deal right and the election will decide who sit | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
across the table from 27 other European countries to try to get | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
that good deal for Britain. Do you want it to be Theresa May Jeremy | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
Corbyn? Whoever ends up negotiating for UK's citizens living in the EU | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
will probably have to guarantee similar rights to those from EU | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
countries who choose to move to the UK. Time to speak to some | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
politicians in Edinburgh. We have Alex Cole Hamilton and Iain McGill. | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
With me in the studio is Patrick Grady from the SNP and Andy Hilland | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
for Scottish Labour. Good evening to you all and thank you for joining | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
us. What was behind Jeremy Corbyn's change of heart today over the BBC | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
TV debate. Was it a last-minute U-turn on a plan to put pressure on | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
Theresa May? Jeremy Corbyn didn't call this general election but I | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
think it's a challenge he is relishing. He attended to's debate | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
and Theresa May called the general election and is running away from | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
it. Labour is going from strength to strength and underlined Scotland's | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
candidates, it is only Labour candidates that can the Tories. Mr | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
copper face criticism yesterday for not knowing the cost of Labour's | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
pledge for free childcare -- Mr Corbyn. Do you know what the cost | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
is? It doesn't make him look disorganised, I actually think | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
Jeremy Corbyn has put forward a bold and radical manifesto. Should he not | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
know the numbers in his own manifesto? It interesting that | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
Theresa May gives figures mixed up and there is no highlighting of it. | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
Jeremy Corbyn has put forward a manifesto and the majority of people | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
in Scotland can unite behind it, it is investment in public services, | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
skills and the NHS and it addresses poverty which is at shocking levels. | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
Do you know what the childcare is? Not for England. ?2.7 billion. Iain | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
McGill of the Scottish Conservatives, is confidence in | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
Theresa May falling. Some of the polls suggest that there is? Polls | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
are often going to tighten up as elections come closer. In Scotland | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
the polls are tightening and it's within 10% of the SNP. Paul is | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
always tighten as elections come closer. We are very happy and | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
confident in Theresa May and the country that they will make the | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
choice whether they are confident in Theresa May to deliver the Brexit | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
deal the country needs on whether there was a coalition of case | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
wobbling with each other in this debate. Do you trust the coalition | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
of chaos to deliver a strong Brexit on Theresa May? Did that make | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
Theresa May look weak to not turn up? She has been up and down the | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
country, taking questions from the public, more so than Jeremy Corbyn, | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
question Time this week, the sky and Channel 4 debate. We don't need more | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
debates for the country to be deciding who they are going to vote | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
for. She would have a more access to people across the country by being | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
in that debate tonight than she did today. There have been debates, she | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
has done debate and we don't need more debates to see who the country | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
is going to be confident to deliver the Brexit negotiations. We will see | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
next week if they are confident in Theresa May or the rabble that was | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
on the debate tonight. But Scott Alex Cole Hamilton and pick up on | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
one bit in your manifesto which the clarification that you want a | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
referendum on the final terms of the Brexit deal that you continue to | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
oppose a Scottish independence referendum. Why has it changed, what | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
is the difference between the two just because you don't like the | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
answer to one of them? In 2014, the SNP provided detailed manifesto of | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
whatever is vision of independence looked like. The borders of Scotland | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
rejected that. On the 23rd of June last year we saw the Leave camp a | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
manifesto evaporate within hours. A pack of lies. The process started by | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
the British people can only be finished by the British people. We | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
want to give people the option that if it is a bad deal or no deal that | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
they can reject that than have the option to remain in the European | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
Union. There is nothing wrong with that. The changed circumstances this | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
column, why not an opportunity to vote once again on the different | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
circumstances, particularly when it's come from the Scottish | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
Parliament? The Scottish National Party set itself a very high bar and | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
said that actually it would bring forward a second independence | :21:23. | :21:32. | |
referendum. successive opinion polls say it is the last thing that people | :21:33. | :21:41. | |
want. That's the last thing we want to put Scotland through. The | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
Scottish Liberal Democrats are opposing another device of | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
independence referendum but we want to give people a say on the final | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
terms of the Brexit deal because we can't trust that throughout Tubau of | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
politicians. Patrick Grady for the SNP. Your manifesto yesterday stated | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
an easing of the timetable on the second vote. Nicola Sturgeon says it | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
won't happen until the end of the Brexit process. She didn't use those | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
words before, she talked about the date but not those words at the end | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
of the Brexit process. It's always good to be at the end of the Brexit | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
process. That was what Theresa May said the end of the Brexit process | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
would be. Once the Brexit process has come to an end on the terms of | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
the final Brexit settlement are known, it's only right that the | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
people of Scotland should have their say, that they should have a choice. | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
Every other Parliament in Europe will have a final say on the Brexit | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
deal, the House of Commons will have a final say, we think the people of | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Scotland, who voted 62% to remain in the European Union should have | :22:44. | :23:02. | |
that say. Your manifesto says that winning at least 30 of Scotland 59 | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
seats give this triple mandate that you talk about foreign independence | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
referendum. The popular vote in 2015 for the SNP was 50%, what if it | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
falls below that this time? In our system in this country, the party | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
with the most votes and the most seats are the winner of the election | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
and if the SNP wins the election and we are taking nothing for granted. | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
If we win the election next week, it gives us a mandate to take forward | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
proposals in our manifesto to stand up against Tory austerity and | :23:23. | :23:24. | |
against an extreme Tory Brexit and protect and strengthen the powers of | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
the Scottish Government. That's not a mandate. | :23:30. | :23:37. | |
Uefa south of the 50%. You haven't had the 50% mandate in the Scottish | :23:38. | :23:46. | |
parliament. Even with the combined force in the Scottish parliament you | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
haven't got the 50%. It's not a referendum the country once. Noises | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
from the Liberal Democrats, we saw from Angus Roberts, the SNP have | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
been the strong opposition to Tory austerity in the House of Commons. | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
What kind of mandate would be needed? The SNP began this general | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
election campaign saying it wasn't about independence at all but we saw | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
with the launch of the manifesto that there has been a U-turn and | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
they say if they gain a certain number of MPs that will be a mandate | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
for a referendum. I actually think that in this general election, the | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
voters in most consistencies across Scotland have a choice to vote for | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
the SNP and that will be a vote for another independence referendum. You | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
still oppose an indie referendum regardless? The Liberal Democrats | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
pretending to be the party of protecting the union. Jeremy Corbyn | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
said the first thing he would do as Prime Minister is speak to the First | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
Minister about another independence referendum. We are running right out | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
of time, thank you for joining us. Back tomorrow night at 10:30pm. From | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
all of us here, good night. Hello there, good evening, the last | :24:56. | :25:12. | |
day of the meteorological spring today and it was a cracker. Plenty | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
of sunshine and blue sky but tonight the cloud rolling in. It will stay | :25:19. | :25:19. |