kezia dugdale? pretend or forget the mandate that the people of scotland sent in 2014 of the electorate voted and said very clearly no. the vast majority of people in scotland want to move oi'i of people in scotland want to move on from those audits of the past and the reality is the only things that have changed since 2014, the economics of independence have falle n economics of independence have fallen apart. there has been a collapse of the oil price... and brexit... collapse of the oil price... and brexit. .. still more fundamental and is to currency. you mentioned brexit and that is interesting because nicola sturgeon is using brexit to make the case for independence but she can't tell us whether scotland would automatically stay a member of the european union, would we have to be applied, or would we have a norway style arrangement? the different deals depending on the flavour of the week. she will do anything to pursue the case of independence and we have seen that today, by ignoring the will

their leader, kezia dugdale, has called sturgeon a liar for saying she would support a referendum onof the story 100%. scottish voters are effectively being asked to use this election to signal whether they want another vote on independence. the outcome could help determine when or if that might happen. paul nuttall, the ukip leader, has spent the final day of campaigning visiting target seats along the east coast of england. he wants the brexit process completed by 2019, without paying any exit fee, and reducing net migration. 0ur political correspondent, alex forsyth, reports from the ukip campaign trail in essex. cheering. confident smiles for the last push. ukip‘s leader paid a visit to one of the party's strongholds. they're convinced they still have a role, even now the uk's voted to leave the eu. ukip says it's the guard dog of brexit. i think people are coming around to the idea that theresa may won't give us the kind of brexit that we really want. the party is pushing its broader policies, too. it's promised to cut immigration, improve security, put more money into the nhs b

their leader kezia dugdale has sturgeon a liar for saying she would support a referendum on the day afterrsion of the story 100%. scottish voters are using this election to signal whether they want another vote on independence. the outcome could help determine when or if that might happen. the election — in the later stages — was dominated by questions about security, following the terror attacks in london and manchester. but today, the parties were keen to refocus on their core messages — brexit for the conservatives — the future of the nhs and public services for labour. 0ur correspondent christian fraser looks at some of the policy choices in these key areas. so have you decided? maybe you haven't, in which case it's probably worth looking at two or three of the big issues and where the party stand on each of them. so we'll begin with the economy. the conservatives are pledging to balance the budget by 2025. they've ruled out any increases to vat, and they're sticking this time with the plans they've already set out on personal tax allowances and their cuts to corporation tax. labour i

kezia dugdale said only labour, onlyjeremy corbyn can oust theresa may from downing street, in the sametrategy and tactical point. tim farron, liberal democrat leader, also in scotland, saying the only plausible alternative to the snp in scotla nd plausible alternative to the snp in scotland is the liberal democrats and said that was true across many constituencies in the uk. scotland political editor brian taylor. the debate is live on bbc one tonight at 9pm and later on the news channel at midnight. well one key reasons the conservatives' gained an unlikely majority in the 2015 election, wasbecause of the stunning collapse of the liberal democrats. the tories took 27 seats from nick clegg's party. holding them this time round, could be key to staying in government. one of those seats is cheltenham in gloucestershire, where the lib dems will have to overturn a six and a half thousand strong majority, to win it. ben godfrey has been to the spa town, to check out the mood. at oak—wood children's centre in cheltenham they are bringing families together and the candidates to become the tow

kezia dugdale said that it was nonsense and that she would fight for the uk.tish independence referendum would be at odds with jeremy corbyn's position. we put that to him this morning at his rally and he said that getting a labour government elected and getting a good deal negotiated in brexit where his priorities, so he didn't directly answer that question, but the scottish tory leader rick dennison seized upon this and said labour cannot be trusted with the independence referendum issue and that only her party will oppose it. —— ruth davidson. and the lib dems have been out campaigning also. there is going to bea out campaigning also. there is going to be a rally this afternoon with nicola sturgeon, and we will be able to put those issues to the scottish national party, there. the snp say that if they get the majority of seats this time around this is yet a further guarantee that there should bea further guarantee that there should be a scottish independence referendum. in their view, there has already been support for it from the holyrood elections last ti

liberal democrats, willie rennie said that nothing had changed with nicholas dakin‘s position and kezia dugdaled the first minister of pressing on regardless —— nicola sturgeon‘s position. she says she has heard the views of the people, that she has reflected on the result of the general election, and her incredulous conclusion is to double down and continue with her campaign for independence. but the truth is the threat of an unwanted second independence referendum is dead. and this did not happen because nicola sturgeon wanted it to. the people of scotland have taken that decision for her. but the first minister is digging her heels in, putting her fingers in her ears and pressing on regardless. she isjust not listening. first minister, why don't you understand the people of scotland sent you a clear message at the general election, get back to governing? when will you listen and get on with the job that really matters? improving our schools, growing our economy and fixing our nhs. all the focus on nicola sturgeon‘s comment about a second independence referendum but there were a couple of oth

while kezia dugdale said nicola sturgeon was carrying on regardless.t minister has said she has heard the views of the people, that she's reflected on the result of the general election and her incredulous conclusion is to double down and continue with her campaign for independence. the truth is the threat of an unwanted second independence referendum is dead. this didn't happen because nicola sturgeon wanted it to. the people of scotland have ta ken sturgeon wanted it to. the people of scotland have taken that decision for her. but the first minister is digging her heels in, putting her fingers in herears digging her heels in, putting her fingers in her ears and pressing on regardless. she isjust not listening. first minister, why don't you understand the people of scotland sent you a clear message the the general election — get back to governing. when will you listen and get on with the job that really matters, improving our schools, growing our economy and fixing our nhs? a couple of other interesting points nicola sturgeon made in holyrood this aft

kezia dugdale.she has reflected on the results of the election and her conclusion is to double down and continue her campaign for independence but the threat of unwanted second independence referendum is dead and this didn't happen because nicola sturgeon wanted it to, the people of scotland have ta ken sturgeon wanted it to, the people of scotland have taken that decision for her. but the first minister is digging her heels in, putting her fingers in herears digging her heels in, putting her fingers in her ears and pressing on regardless. she isjust not listening. first minister, why don't you understand the people of scotland sent to a clear message that the election, get back to governing. when will you get on with the job that matters, improving our schools, growing our economy and fixing our nhs? it's clear that chelsea dugdale scripted that question before she listened to the statement that we made. we will not proceed with legislation for independence immediately but will do everything in our

, kezia dugdale cannot keep the scottish labour party together.vative party to come back into scotland. for labour to be telling labour voters to vote tactically, to vote for the tories, is unbelievable in scotland. and it will not continue. david, as a conservative voter, do you think that indyref2 is dead and buried? you can never that indyref2 is dead and buried? you can never say that indyref2 is dead and buried? you can never say that. i think the snp will come back with some story that would indicate that indyref2 is still on the table. my position is that the tories will go back and say, look, the snp is wounded in scotland, so let's put the indyref2 thing to bed for ever. and they will have an indyref2 and then lose it. who will lose it, the tories will visit? yes, because the tories consistently lose. every time you call one of these referenda, you lose it. the tories consistently lose it. the tories consistently lose scotland! who can say? what is the chinese curse, you live in interesting times? we live in interesting times? we live in

kezia dugdale is riding forward. there is a problem.ies to carve off the winter fuel allowance to be different for scotland are not to have the cut. allowance to be different for scotland are not to have the cutm seems to me, amongst labour and conservatives, about how the leader in westminster in london is reflected in the influence they are having in scotland as well. whether or not there should be some detachment from the messages coming from the party from westminster.m that fair? it is funny. on the side of independence, the centre—left, when you look at some might corbyn and think, that guy probably expresses about 80%. the 20% he does not express is to do with trident. they're not very enthusiastic about constitutional reform. there are a lot of people on the yes side in scotland wondering what will happen with the election. if it is a hung parliament and there is a progressive majority emerging, it could be an interesting number of years. if corbyn wants to get rid of trident and reform over the house of lords, his power over sn

hertrainerl and another one who was insulated from her trainer i think there is no question that kezia dugdalenaged to insulated herself from the campaign that theresa may was running, which was in doubt until the end. what you saw was, particularly in scotland, if you look at a seat like rutherglen which labour gained, their vote hardly we nt which labour gained, their vote hardly went up at all. the snp went down 12 points, the tory vote went up down 12 points, the tory vote went up12 down 12 points, the tory vote went up 12 points. there were labour vote rs up 12 points. there were labour voters who had decided that the constitution was the most important for thing for them, and they crossed the rubicon and voted conservative. at the same time, withjeremy corbyn's message, there were ex—labour voters corbyn's message, there were ex— labour voters who believed corbyn's message, there were ex—labour voters who believed that independence would deliver social justice and voted for the snp, and i believe they came back to labour because of the influence ofjeremy corbyn down south. there was a fe