James Cook

Nicola Sturgeon went.

Humza Yousaf went.

A power-sharing arrangement with the Greens collapsed.

There was a police investigation into the finances.

There were a whole series of policy rows.

John Swinney came in and said, look, two years ago, I am steadying the ship.

And he says now that that work has basically paid off.

But...

Their share of the vote is down.

Their number of seats is down.

They've fallen short of the goal he set and repeatedly talked about of the idea of an outright majority, 65, which, because of that electoral system we've discussed, is very difficult to attain.

Minority or coalition government are the norm here.

And so he says it's an emphatic victory, but I think you could debate that, to be honest.

Yeah, but look, we're still waiting for that last count from the Highlands.

Exactly where that's going to land.

We don't know for certain, yeah.

Exactly where they're going to land and exactly how bad it is for Labour and exactly how well of reform have done isn't clear.

But yes, I mean, they had hoped to pick up

some or maybe one constituency seat.

They were particularly hopeful in Banffshire and Buchan coast.