James Cook

It was easier when they just called it Banff and Buchan when Alex Salmond was the MP there a long time ago.

But they didn't.

They didn't win that.

But they have picked, I mean, they came from nowhere, Adam.

I mean, they didn't exist in any meaningful sense in Scottish politics until today.

And now they very much do in a big way.

Malcolm Offord is talking about how he's going to be the leader in Scotland, Lord Offord, how he's going to be shepherding his disparate bunch of MSPs and what they're going to be doing in the Parliament here.

One thing they want to do is to campaign for tax cuts.

and cuts to welfare spending and cuts to immigration.

You know, they have a very distinct policy agenda as compared to some of the other parties in the Parliament.

I mean, there's no two ways about it.

It's a bad election for the Scottish Conservative Party and its leader, the former journalist, Russell Findlay.

I have to say, on the eve of poll, when we're sitting putting the report together for the 10 o'clock news with my colleagues, and we're putting in the little clips, and we put in the clip of Russell Finlay, and all of us just said, he doesn't look very happy, does he?

There's something wrong there.

And no wonder.

But there's other people who are unhappy too.

The SNP, it's not all triumph for them.

They've lost some key seats.

And Angus Robertson, a cabinet minister, was unseated himself in Parliament.

Edinburgh Central I saw him yesterday I drove past him he didn't see me he was driving his car and I thought he looks really worried and well he might have looked worried as it turned out because he was defeated by the Greens who had a fantastic day he might have just seen a red light listen to be fair I think he was just like he was driving a car I'm not reading I'm over interpreting how worried he looked at that moment