Nicola Sturgeon Election 2017

What was your old job? I used to work in a nightclub. Maybe you were

there. No comment. This is a lovely place. It truly is. How long has it

been here? Just over a year. The best thing you will have to do is

put on the gloves. Health and safety. Great, thank you. Are you

helping as well? Yes, why not. What is the most popular toastie filling?

It is Haggis, bacon and macaroni cheese. Have you had one? I have. I

think I was all until about seven o'clock. So, we put this in here.

Press quite hard? No, you just leave it like that. It takes a couple of

minutes on each side. OK, we've got to be careful not to

burn. A little lip that is the it's OK. Maybe a little bit longer. Is

their amount of Jays. -- batted that their amount of cheese. It's a lot

of cheese. Everybody loves red cheese. We will get a Haggis one on

for you. That needs a bit longer. I'll go and get a Haggis toastie for

you now. You can't not have Haggis. There we go. I'll give you a press

as well. That's it. Thank you. How's it going?

Normally at this point where running around with more tastiness. Yes, but

you are a professional. We have them lined up like this, flying out of

the door. Lunchtime is very busy, Saturdays are extremely busy. Queued

out of the door. Yes, queued out of the door. It's good. That's good.

It's been a real success. Absolutely. And how is your training

going? Pretty good so far. You're probably doing better than me.

Almost done. As long as I can do one under incredible high pressure, with

all my attention on it. You'd think this is pressure. Think about lunch.

Mind you, I can't talk. Mine is messier than yours. Do you like

cheese toast this? About five minutes more and it will be done.

Lots of cheese. It's very unapologetic. Having a camera in

your face whilst you are making a toastie. And it is pretty hot. Give

it a nice pushed down to get the cheese that. You can do the same

with yours as well. Flip it over like that. Just watch your jacket

there. OK. There we go. Another wee bit. How is your one going? Are you

not paying attention? Sorry, I got distracted. Is this year learning

what not to do? No, I think you are a natural. How witty your won the

King? Still a little bit to go yet. I don't usually like sourdough bread

but this looks good. This is a great wee test. I would say yours is just

about ready. Ready. All of the cheese is losing out. There we go.

Now, are you happy to wrap that up? Yes. Right, though. Do you want to

bring it over. I will watch. Bring it over here and pop it on this.

Like that. You can be the customer. Packet around. And that is it,

that's your toastie. Excellent, ready to go. Would you like a bag?

The proof is in the tasting. Do I look like Ed Miliband?! LAUGHTER

Did nobody tell you that eating on camera was not a good thing to do?

I'm just learning! Note that I'm taking over here.

Who wants to taste the haggis one? Fergus. Excellent. Pretty good.

There was method in your madness. Thank you very much.

First Minister, you talked about oil being appalled that important for

Scotland for decades to come in the value of it you can understand that

as far as the economy is concerned that its importance is reducing. I

think oil and gas will continue to be important for many decades in a

number of different ways, firstly there is a lot of oil left in the

North Sea and we have to support the industry to give maximum economic

recovery but secondly the skilled in the oil and gas sector are

transferable into other parts of the energy sector in Scotland and also

exportable elsewhere in the world. Thirdly, decommissioning is in

itself a massive economic opportunity, it is not instead of

making sure we get maximum recovery from the North Sea but in addition

to it. Across all these areas if we do the right things now across

innovation, skills and physical support, it is an industry with a

bright future and it is interesting that at the oil and gas UK

conference that after a tough few years there is a sense of cautious

optimism about the future and that is something we have to seas. There

is still a huge worse but do you understand about the tax take and

the money that government could spend is never going to be back to

the levels you had hoped it would be in 2014? If we support the industry

there is a significant amount of revenue to be got from that and the

important thing in the future, unlike in the past under Westminster

governments, is that we make the most of that revenue. The impact of

the oil and gas sector in energy generally is much wider than that.

The activity it drives through the Ikeme, if we do the right things now

we could see more than ?900 billion of economic benefit in that industry

so it is of massive importance to the Scottish economy and also a good

future if we do the right thing to support it. And on a separate issue,

the Barnett Formula has not been mentioned much in this campaign. How

long will the SNP expected to be there and are you still supportive

of it? Until Scotland has responsibility for our own finances

I would expect dizzy it continue and the reason it has not been mentioned

much is because until today nobody thought that any party was

explicitly saying they wanted to get rid of it. I was astounded last

night to hear Carwyn Jones saying that a Labour government would get

rid of the Barnett Formula. The cost to Scotland for that would be ?4

billion so suddenly it appears Labour poses a real risk to our

finances. And you have a campaign message about the effect on pensions

and demented tax come of course a devolved issue? The Tory manifesto

is nothing short of an assault on pensioners rights. The removal of

the triple-lock, means testing the winter fuel allowance and the

prospect of a demented tax, we have an opportunity in Scotland to send a

real message about the kind of country we want to be. Theresa May

is on the ropes, it is no longer inevitable she will get a bigger

majority and if we send strong SNP MPs at the House of Commons standing

up for pensioners and for investment in public services and policies that

will lift people out of poverty, that is better than Tory MPs who

will be a rubber stamp for Theresa May's cuts.

Good morning ladies and gentlemen and thank you very much for coming.

Six weeks ago we started our campaign talking about those issues

such as integration, radicalisation and the threat of fundamentalist

Islam. At the