Nicola Sturgeon Election 2017

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You have been talking about Brexit, what is your message to Theresa May,

should you become the largest party in Scotland once again? If people

vote SNP, it gives me a mandate to demand Scotland is represented in

the negotiations. That matters because jobs and living standard

will be affected by the negotiations. We have seen Theresa

May dismiss sensible compromise proposals from the slash Government

to protect our place in the single market. This gives people the

opportunity to give the proposals s he jit ma say. Theresa May wants to

purr spew an extreme Brexit. That could sacrifice jobs. And we need to

make sure that Scotland is protected. A vote for the SNP is a

vote to make sure Scotland's voice is heard in the negotiations. We

have heard how important you believe the single market is, do you think

there is a chance of Theresa May changing her mind on that and if so

would you drop the idea of having a second independence referendum? I

made it clear, people should have a choice at the end of the process

about our future. That is the democratically right thing to do.

But there is a more immediate opportunity in this election and

that is to give democratic legitimacy to proposals to protect

Scotland's place in the single market. Theresa May refused to

listen to the proposals. But an election gives an opportunity for

people to back those proposals and whether you're for or against the

EU, we can make sure the way in which we leave the EU does north

crash the Scottish economy. If people vote for the SNP, that

strengthens my hand in making sure that Scotland's voice is heard in

the negotiations. That is very much the general message at the election.

We know from polls in England that Theresa May's going to win with a

bigger majority. That makes it more important that we have strong voices

in the House of Commons standing up for Scotland, strengthening Scotland

against a hard line Tory Government, having MPs that will stand up

against austerity and make sure our interests are protected. On the

agenda is health, Labour are making a speech about this, we want to ask

what the SNP is doing for the NHS in Scotland and what you're committed

to with spending? At the election we made a clear commitment the biggest

commitment of any party at the election, so we are committed to

increasing the NHS budget by ?2 billion over this Parliament. That

is five hundred million than inflation. It is ironic hearing

Labour talk about the NHS, because at the slosh election they offered

the lowest increase of any party and we have record funding today and it

is ?3 billion than it was when the SNP took office and we are committed

to continuing to increase NHS spending over the liechlt of the

Scottish Parliament. -- life of the Scottish Parliament.

How is Scotland now coping after the siebary tack, how are people coping

now? There's been a huge amount of work done by people in the NHS over

the weekend supported by the Scottish Government and I thank

everybody for the work they're doing. NHS systems have been getting

back into operation. We are looking to make sure any lesson that's need

to be learned are learned and applied and the national resilience

board Will meet tomorrow. It's also the case that we've been working

hard to make sure any impact on patients is minimised. Real focus on

this. We've been part of a global siebary tack, but we must make sure

all steps are taken to minimise in the future. You were Health

Secretary, now the minister, were awe rare of vulnerabilities in the

system before this happened? We invest massively in cyber

resilience. We make significant investment not just generally, in

the NHS, in cyber security. This has been a global attack, which has

affected upwards of 100 countries. There's no sense that there's

something unique about Scotland here. We must make sure we learn the

lessons. We're focussed very much on that. In addition, offer the

weekend, we've been in discussion with other public sector bodies and

much more widely to make sure people do the right things to protect

themselves against attacks like this in the future.