and now meeting with ian blackford.ister, did he give you any more details of this employment support package? there has been some criticism already from opposition parties that perhaps he was preparing to go far enough. we have been told because it is market sensitive we'll have to wait till 5pm. the meeting went on in a good spirit, i have to say and it gave me the opportunity to impress upon the prime minister we have a health emergency and pr right in asking people to self and select isolate. there is a consequence to that, in the hospitality industry is in meltdown. i have expressed to the prime minister that there is a very real threat to our economy. in that sector, 1.7 million people in the uk working in hospitality industry and most of those people face the threat of redundancy. there is a possibility, and i will put it no more strongly than that, of a marked increase in unemployment of several millions unless we take the right action. government have now got to step in as effectively as they should with a last

ian blackford: i thank the prime minister for that answer, and i commit my party and our government in scotland to work constructively together. of course, people are worried about their health, but there are millions of workers who are worried about the consequences for their incomes, their job securities and their families, so i do ask that the prime minister give specific guarantees. certainly, we will work together in the snp in pushing for emergency legislation. will he give the clarification that all workers will be fully protected from the first day of sickness, that those payments should be up to the level of the real living wage and that there will be emergency legislation to guarantee that staff who are asked to self-isolate, and their businesses, are fully supported? that is the leadership that is required. i ask if the prime minister will commit himself to working constructively with us all to that end. hear.r, p.m. johnson: again, i thank the right honorable gentleman for the spirit in which he asks the question. he will have seen from my earlier answer that what we are in

i know at one point, you were hurrying along the leader of the scottish national party, ian blackfordepared to deal with some disruption, and i was prepared to stop people intervening or trying to heckle anyone who was speaking, but they were pretty well behaved. and, yes, i did give a bit of a stern warning to begin with. and a couple of times, ijust looked at certain people who were making a bit of a noise. but, again, i didn't want to interrupt proceedings. ifind that sometimes, a stern glance or something rather more severe than that — but without words and without interruption of the flow of the debate — is the best way to discipline people and to keep order. if the occupant of the chair constantly jumps up and shouts "order!" and has discourse with some member of parliament who is behaving very well, well, itjust draws attention to that member of parliament. and if they're not behaving well, they don't deserve to have attention drawn to them. and it draws attention to the chair. well, that's not the job of the chair. the job of the chair is to make things run smoothly. and it ru

ian blackford, the snp leader, saying, what about a universal basic income? important i think, the suggestion from borisjohnson that important i think, the suggestion from boris johnson that we important i think, the suggestion from borisjohnson that we are getting closer to a household test to determine whether you have had coronavirus. now, that is very important for the epidemiologists and others to track the spread and where it is most virulent and to enable them to get a grip on the disease. mrjohnson said that, too, was much closer than many people expected. so, we did get quite a bit of nuts and bolts about aspects of the coronavirus response from the government. thank you very much, norman. the european union is now formally banning travellers from outside in an unprecedented move to seal its borders. it is expected to apply to all 26 eu states as well as iceland, liechtenstein, norway and switzerland. there are exemptions for british citizens, though. the ban came as deaths continued to soar in italy, spain and france began a strict lockdown. europe

you saw ian blackford today calling for the statutory sick pay rate to go up to european levels.ons of pounds extra in current spending and capital spending.“ you look at those billions of pounds, set against the £14 billion that has been cut since 2010 for scotland, it doesn't stand up to any kind of real measure in terms of making a real difference on austerity in scotland. also, i don't think we have seen measures that will really help people at the sharp end, the poverty end of the scale, with universal credit still having that of a staging effect on people not being able to claim it right away and having to go into loans and not being able to pay their rent. we are not seeing any of those measures to tackle poverty in the budget. those are the things people really need. there are measures that will help along the way. but the real impact on society has not been dealt with in this budget. some people will say, looking at today and looking at these large numbers, and no one is doubting that this is a shift, it is a shift in approach by a conservative government, talking about