James Cook
speaker
1,779 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 19 Sep
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But it hasn't killed the SNP stone dead and it hasn't killed Scottish nationalism stone dead.
Indeed, the SNP have prospered through devolution.
They've learned to use it.
They've run the government here for a long time.
That doesn't mean there haven't been problems.
I mean, Adam, there have been, as we know, a lot of difficulties for the SNP.
They had a very turbulent period.
They went to two First Ministers.
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.
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