playing out, so more than 200 candidates from the centrist bloc and the left alliance of the new popular front partynot to take away each other’s votes in constituencies where there is a chance of opposing the right. music artists and the captain of the french national football team, kylian mbappe, have joined the campaign against the national unification. we cannot leave the country in the hands of these people, we have seen the results, this catastrophe. the last word will be with the new head of government, while the position of her party remains unchanged. we have two red lines: sending french troops to the territory of ukraine, because the french are completely against this. supply of long-range weapons that could hit russia and therefore make france a party to the conflict. the presidential camp is missing blow after blow, the picture in the media is negative. this is how, for example, the last day of campaigning went for the current prime minister atal. but where is the president himself? he was last seen wearing a bomber jacket and dark glasses almost a week ago. on the night when his politi

that occurred between president emanuel and that cause establishment together party and the new popular front parties. on the anti establishment left, they literally concluded publicly to deny voters what they twice actually voted for . arguing that it would be dangerous for france not to have them salute the pleads obviously, just don't know what's good for them. and for france, it's been done all this behind closed doors. it would have been a stolen election scandals. but as the french saying goes, the bigger it is, the more easily it passes. so just do the chevy dealer right on the open so it seems legit in any case you can be sure that once all these defenders of western democracy finish undermining it, they'll get right back to lecture and everyone else about how their own system is the gold standard for it and how they are, the ultimate arbiters of it are called of us down here and most go to africa. we go now with a kenyan president, william, and who to it was dismissed nearly his entire cabinet, telling them along with the attorney general, that job is done. and so after weeks of anti governm

a surprising victory by the new popular front leaves no party with a clear majority. presidents and manual and my co centrist alliance comes in seconds ahead of my mean depends far, right? national ralph and french, a prime minister gabrielle, that ties says key plans to offer his resignation. on monday, after reading the centrist alliance, 2 a 2nd place finish people in texas batten down the hatches, houses are boarded up, and food shelves are empty. as residents in the us prepare for the 1st tropical storm of the season with feral, expect it to make land fall in the coming hours. the . i'm david levitz. welcome to the show. francis left. when coalition has won a surprise victory in the 2nd and final round of parliamentary elections, the block led by far left figurehead is only 2 men, also one the most seats but did not secure an overall majority. nothing depends far, right. national riley came in 3rd place despite a huge showing for the party in the 1st round. and president day money, one, my call centrist coalition came 2nd prompting prime minister and abigail outside to announce he wil

the surprising victory by the new popular front leaves no party with a clear majority. president emmanuel and my call centrist alliance comes in seconds ahead of my team depends far right. national rally and french prime minister deputy on that side of says he plans to offer his resignation. on monday, after leading the centrist alliance, 2, a 2nd place finish the and david levitz good value with us french prime minister, gabrielle i, tyler has announced he intends to resign as president emmanuel, and my calls centers together. coalition look set for 2nd place in parliamentary elections. projections show the 4 week old new popular front left wing alliance, unexpectedly coming out on tarp body in lou pens. far right. national rally party is projected to come in 3rd place. while supporters of the french left celebrated in paris, no group looks likely to emerge with an absolute majority in parliament. well, let's take a quick look at the seat distribution. according to projections from broadcaster t f one. the west wing alliance, the new popular front in red could get as many as a 198 seats.

issue here is that the far left front on both bought the late to buy the 5 by leaders on the mental show we saw in that report. this is the biggest party in the new popular front and middle show may be controversial, but the spot is usually popular, especially in kind of money to go to the suburbs around big cities. we played a big role in blocking the far right in recent election. so the new popular friend says my crowd really has to respect the choice of waters and invite them to form a government which includes the fondest and how could the political impulse affect frances ability to golf and especially with the games in a couple of weeks. it was today we saw a piece of my calls interest grouping, or pointing 5 minutes to aton as the kind of a president of the parliamentary group of gabriella ton. of course, staying on his appointment is to indicate the capacity. the current cabinet is also staying on temper leave to kind of handle the dates of the affairs. but we really don't know how long this arrangement will be in place that have some speculation that govern government might have done this and i've written resignation next week . and then we have

the surprising victory by the new popular front, reeves no party with equivalent majority. president emmanuel and my call centrist alliance comes in seconds ahead of mounting depends far right and national reality and french prime minister gabrielle. that's how it says he plans to offer his resignation. on monday, after leading the centrist alliance, 2, a 2nd place finish, people in texas batten down the hatches, houses are boarded up, and food shelves are empty as residents in the us prepare for the 1st tropical storm of the season. with pharaoh expected to make land falls in the coming hours. the and david levitz welcome to the program, french prime minister gabrielle. that child has announced he plans to resign. that's as president emmanuel and my call centrist together coalition look set for 2nd place in parliamentary elections. projections show the 4 week old new popular front, the left wing of alliance, unexpectedly coming out on top. nothing depends far right. national rally party is projected to come in 3rd place. the supporters of the french left celebrated in paris. no grou

the surprising victory by the new popular front leaves no party with a clear majority present into my new way. my clothes, centrist alliance comes in, 2nd. ahead of mounting depends far right and national route. and french prime minister gabrielle outside says he plans to offer his resignation. on monday, after leaving the centrist alliance, 2 a 2nd place finish people in texas batten down the hatches, houses are boarded up, and food shelves are empty as.

rally party after the far-right held a significant lead in the election's first round and scored major advances in recent european parliament elections. supporters of the leftist new popular front to the streets to celebrate as results were announced sunday. [cheers] amy: no party has secured an absolute majority in france's national assembly, with the new popular front winning 182 seats -- short of the 289 seats required for an absolute majority. prime minister macron stunned france calling for the snap elections in the hopes french voters would keep his centrist coalition in power. following their defeat, macron's prime minister gabriel attal offered to resign but macron asked him to stay on temporarily to "ensure the stability of the country." the pair met at the presidential palace. the new popular front has vowed to raise the minimum wage, cap the price of essential foods and utilities come and throw out macron's hugely unpopular pension reform which raised the retirement age. the group says it will raise -- reimpose taxes on the wealthiest and corporations. the new popular front also says it will recognize palestinian statehood after macron's government earlier this year

party of mrs. marine le pen. the leftists, who formed the coalition of the new popular front, and the pro -macron parties under the name of all together , were placed in the second and third places in the first round of the early elections of the french national assembly. defeat of the ruling party. france in the european parliamentary elections and the victory of marine le pen's party are among the reasons that forced emmanuel macron to dissolve the french parliament and hold early elections. some experts this macron's action from the hole. the ruling democracy demands that we participate in the elections in any way and cast our vote. in addition, if they get one vote , they will participate in the second round of the french parliamentary elections that will be held next week. this election, which was held with the dissolution of parliament by french president macron, is very different from the previous elections because it will bring new challenges for this country. shahzovar hosseini of paris radio and television agency. the national interest magazine described the american people and the political atmosphere o

new popular front. marine le pen's far—right party, national rally, has come third — when it was expected to top the pollrelations with the devolved governments of scotland, wales and northern ireland. the israeli army has issued new evacuation orders to palestinian residents and displaced families in several districts of gaza city. dozens of families are now headed to other locations west and south of gaza city. negotiations about the future of the tata steel plant at port talbot in south wales have begun between the new government and the indian owners of the business. the decision to close the blast furnaces puts nearly 3,000 jobs at risk. now on bbc news, newscast. newscast from the bbc. it's laura in the studio. in glorious green.

a surprising victory by the new popular front leaves no party with a clear majority. president emmanuel and my call centrist alliance comes in seconds ahead of me in the pens far right. national ralph and french of prime minister gabrielle, that tire size key plans to offer his resignation. on monday, after leading the centrist alliance, 2, a 2nd place finish people in texas batten down the hatches, houses are.

the surprising victory by the new popular front leaves no party with a clear majority. president emmanuel and my call centrist alliance comes in seconds ahead of now the loop ends far right. national rally and french prime minister deputy on that side of says he plans to offer his resignation. on monday, after leading the centrist alliance, 2, a 2nd place finish the.

the surprising victory by the new popular front leads no party with a clear majority. president, a mental on the cons. centrist alliance comes in seconds ahead, the marine la pens, all right. national violence and prince prime minister gabriella tal says he plans to offer his resignation after leaving the centrist alliance to that 2nd place, finish. also coming up, india prime minister. now render mode is headed to russia for his 1st visit in 5 years. is expected to call for the release of indians lowered to fight in the war against ukraine. we have an exclusive report on their plank. and people in texas button down the hatches, houses are ported up, and supermarket shelves are empty, as residents in the us prepare for the 1st tropical storm of the season. hurricane barrel is expected to make landfall in the coming out of the hello and terry martin. good, heavy with us left us and fred semen, rejoicing after a hastily assembled the lions scored a surprise when in the 2nd and final round of parliamentary elections. the new popular front succeeded ins. gold preventing the far right from gai

the surprising victory by the new popular front leaves no party with the clear majority. presently, man, one of the cons centrist alliance comes in 2nd, the head of green depends ball, right? national riley and french prime minister gabrielle. a ta says he plans to offer his resignation. after leaving the centrist alliance to taking place, been also coming up the philippines and japan signed the defense pact to counter chinese. sort of this, the deal will allow japanese soldiers onto philippine soil for the 1st time since the 2nd world war and indian prime minister. no render moody is headed to russia for his 1st visit in 5 years. he's expected to call for the release of indians, lower to fight in the war against ukraine. we have an exclusive report on their plan, the hello, i'm terry margin. good to have you with us left. this in france had been rejoicing after a hastily assembled an alliance scored to surprise when in the 2nd and final round the parliamentary elections. the new popular front succeeded in his gold, preventing the far right from gaining power with the national riley, fo

new popular front. four left-wing parties together received 28.5% of the vote and about 200 seats in parliament. milanchon, an ardent opponent of the president, immediately extended his hand to him and promised to withdraw his candidacies, where the left took third place, losing to the presidential bloc. according to our previous election campaigns and consistent policies, we will not allow the right to prevail. therefore, if they become the majority party while we are in third place, we will withdraw our candidacy. under any circumstances, our instructions will remain simple, direct and clear, not a single additional vote, not a single... third place - a disastrous 22% loss of a relative majority obliges us to seek compromises. macron ordered to study each electoral district and see with whom an alliance could be formed. premier attal did a nod to the left. he announced that he was suspending until the fall the reform to reduce unemployment benefits, too. the 60 candidates of the coalition together for the republic will be withdrawn from the race in the second round of parliamentary elections i

no single party swept up the majority of the votes. the new popular front formed between different parties to keep the far-right at bay, keep them from taking over government, may have succeeded, but they now have to figure out what comes next and how they govern. who will they propose to become prime minister? the greens, the socialist and communist party. and how will macron react? will they stay committed to the program they proposed when they formed this alliance? that idea of fraternity will be put to the test. caitriona: let's turn to other important news. india prime minister modi arrived in moscow monday for a two day visit where he will meet putin. it is mr. modi's first foreign trip since winning reelection last month and part of the annual summits between delhi and moscow that began in 2000. it coincides with the nato summit in washington. the u.s. has raised concerns with india about its relationship with russia. hurricane beryl was downgraded to a tropical storm monday after making landfall in texas as a category one hurricane with heavy winds

the surprising victory by the new popular front leads no party, but the clear majority. president, man, one of the cons centrist alliance, comes in 2nd to head of green depends ball, right? national routing and french prime minister gabrielle, a ta says he plans to offer his resignation after leading the centrist alliance to taking place. been also coming up the philippines in japan sign of defense pact to counter chinese sort of this.

new popular front. four left-wing parties together received 28.5% of the vote and about 200 seats in parliament.he head of unconquered france. third place - the disastrous 22% loss of the relative majority obliges us to look for compromises. macron ordered to study each electoral district and see with whom an alliance could be formed. prime minister attal made a nod to the left and announced that he was suspending the reform of reducing unemployment benefits until the fall. 60 coalition candidates together for the republic will be removed from pre-election race in the second round of parliamentary elections in france, in order to prevent the victory of the opposition national rally party. the lesson is that with the far right on the cusp of power, tonight is like no other. the traditional scheme of a joint political barrier against the far right may not work this time, judging by the polls conducted. candidates have until tuesday to submit applications for the second round, decisive for the future of the french parliament and political life the country's voting will take place on july 7. anastas

they say that 34.2% of french people vote for him, in second place is the block of left parties new popular front, which includes socialists, communists, environmentalists, so what, 29 and 10% voted for him, the party of the current president macron , revival and its allies, the block together win the support of 21.5% of voters, another 10% of french people vote for the republican. part of which may enter into an alliance with by the ultra-right, and the turnout in these elections is a record 68%, which is also a characteristic feature of this election process. more than 20 million, almost 21 million voters voted. france has a majoritarian system of parliamentary elections, and the second round is ahead, which will take place on july 7. the situation may change in principle. president macron , after the results of the elections to the european parliament, which were not very encouraging for him, announced that there would be elections to the national assembly, but, but i would like to point out that macron just had a one-time and rather sharp reaction on what is happening in europe in general, on

. >> france's parliamentary elections and the new popular front and the party of president macron could adjust their candidates and have the ability to block the far right government. we turn to senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations. welcome to the "newshour." why did the national rally do so well? >> it was a foregone conclusion when macron decided to call tore snap -- to call for snap election. the reality is that the national rally has been gaining strength very much over the past two years. mostly because larger part of france is agreeing on the substance with them and even larger part of france is tired with this government and president macron. >> he will remain the president. if national rallies were able to secure and hold the prime minimumsership, what would be their platform? >> their platform cannot be further than macron. he is a pro-european liberal centrist versus this national rally party that is a nationalistic, protectionist in nation antinato and the platform will be on immigration initiatives on power will certainly clash very soon with pre

popular front to cover —— the new popular front to govern. french prime minister gabriel attal says he will hand his resignation to president emmanuel macron on monday morning. and there's no partye hq of the national rally. against every expectation, they have fallen from first place in round one a week ago, to third place in the final round. these electoral arrangements have thrown france intojean—luc melenchon�*s extreme left. hello and welcome to paris. the bank is lit up in sparkling, matching the mood of the leftist coalition tonight, a major surprise. with projected results showing the left—wing coalition — the new popular front — winning the most seats in the national assembly. it's forecast to win between 172 and 192 seats in total. it's a surprise turnaround from the first round last week, which saw the far—right national rally party win the biggest share of the vote. the rally is projected to have between 132 and 152 mps — a likely third place behind president macron�*s centrist alliance, together. it's predicted to win between 150 and 170 seats. quite large spreads, vote still being confirmed. if confirmed in the full count, france will have a hung parliament. the fr

the first is from the left of the new popular front of jeanluc mélenchon. the partyime minister otal is in second place. that is , the elysee palace has at least avoided defeat, and will now be able to try to form a coalition in the national assembly. anastasia popova's report from paris will be on our air soon. european bosses fell like dominoes. in britain, labor defeated the conservatives, in holland they seized power back in november, the populists were right, in germany in october in the western lands, the social democrats scholz and the greens lost painfully. there is still september and elections ahead in the east of the country, and the result will be even worse. is this why even the minister of foreign affairs in hungary forgot szijart? about the planned meeting with berbock in budapest, i flew to moscow. the reason isn't even that burbak has the intelligence of a chicken, it's that she's already a lame duck. fashion on frames is not the main thing. europeans are tired of gray politicians who are not capable of making independent decisions, are not ready to

party's president, could become francis new prime ministry. but in order to stop the far right left when parties have put together a coalition called the new popular front of the in the 1st round of voting. they came in 2nd. since then, the coalition has aust candidates who have little chance of winning to support stronger candidates opposed to the national riley. and the latest pose suggests this strategy just might work. like i also have seen the biting my performance and it's scary. it looks like the majority is with the far right. so obviously i don't feel very well. i think there are many of us who have this feeling many who are afraid for from, for the future is full as in yellow. the political campaigning has been marred by tensions and growing violence more than 50 candidates and can pay not to this have reported being physically assaulted during the campaign. and the climate is so tens that authorities are deploying $30000.00 extra police for the vote. whatever the outcome of sundays run off, as it's not expected to bring good news for french president am. and while i'm a kron, his centrist alliance came in search in the 1st round. and polls su

le pen's rally bloc has so far clinched nearly 34% of the vote while the new popular front, coalition formed by leftist parties, came in a close second with nearly 28% of the vote. sunday's election brought out the highest voter turnout in years as young voters were urged to come out to defeat extremists. macron stunned the country, calling for the step elections following major losses in european parliament elections last month to the far right in our party. after headlines, we will go to paris for the latest. in the gaza strip thousand cap israeli tanks were seen advancing after brutal attacks. causes health ministry says at least 23 palestinians were killed in the past day alone, bringing the death toll since the start of israel's latest assault on gaza to more than 37,900. in guises neighborhood, survivors of israel airstrike gathered at the al-aqsa hospital to mourn the dead. this is 10-year-old belal abu hassanain, whose family home in beir al-balah, gaza was bombed by israel last week. >> i want to check out our rooftop as a struck is. i fell most of when i felt i was shattered. my grandfather started s

the new popular front the makeshift coalition of left wing parties came in 1st place and the surprise for posters and a relief for their candidates not to get our people have clearly ruled out the worst case scenario since wow, this evening. so the national riley is far from having the absolute majority that commentators were predicting a week ago. quite the contrary man did this, he did had been a month of suspense for france, after centuries president emanuel mac hall called snap elections, and a bid to catch the rising far right off guard and challenge them at the ballot box . the 1st round of votes did put money in the pins, anti immigration, national riley party on track to win with some surveys predicting an outright majority. but after the centrist block collaborated with the left block, pull their support, they managed to pull off a shock, the feet of the far right. some national rally, supporters watching the results couldn't believe their eyes. or i thought we were going to have at least $250.00 impedes. so i'm disappointed the big small. it's true that the micron block and

the new popular front includes our viewers may not know this, but it includes the communist party of france, their communist party, which wants. and i'm quoting here, to overcome capitalism. so when you read that, when you hear that you have to wonder, has france just rejected one group of radicals to only open the door to another group of radicals is not really the french communist party is no longer, you know, wanting to overcome capitalism. it was, it worked her state with state intervention and more social equality among citizens . and it's been a long time that becomes freddy, is not the leading force on the left breast. and they have, they are now actually much more center then they used to be just 20 years ago. so they, they are on the screen, corrosion and they have some pretty significant measures their agenda, including to raise of the minimum wage to of 1600 years for instance, and to tackle environmental issues. but it's not the same nature of the vitality of the far right. which wanted to retreat from the european court of human rights to rewrite the press constitution a

the left wing new popular front and back homes establishment together. parties came in each at $6000000.00 and change. okay, so what happened? well that's the 2nd big story here. turns out that mab political scientist mack whole mucked around and this little experiment flew up in his face. he and his prime minister gabriella had decided that the anti establishment, right, absolutely, had to be denied a majority all costs. so they figured that by pulling candidates in districts where there were speaking a split with the anti establishment left, that would lead to a seat for the national riley candidate. they could block the pin and the new popular front. so the left as coalition said the same thing, that was the deal. but what ended up actually happening is that as a result also is that strategy. there were more districts left with just the choice . and the 2nd round between the 2 anti establishment candidates on the right and the left. then there were districts that left voters with the choice between key mac hole and team the pin. here's how the pen herself reacted to that. tomorrow we wi

turnaround yeah, we want to expecting that well, we raise me a new popular front or the new popular front, a coalition of several parties 182 seats in the national assembly, making it the largest block. >> but if fell short of an absolute majority, as did all the blocks. and about president emmanuel macron's centrist ensemble alliance got 163 seats. marine le pen's far-right national rally and its allies got 143. but it's worth noting that although the national rally got 143 seats, it will be the largest individual party in the new parliament. now, after the first round of voting the far-right's run to power was undone by tactical deal dealmaking between centrist and leftist opponents. there was also a massive turnout. more than 200 candidates withdrew from the second round to avoid splitting the anti national rally votes meanwhile, french prime minister gabriel or towel says he'll submit his resignation today, but the heel continue his duties. he says as long as they're needed momo said company commitment in this campaign was for me a duty from the story of this campaign, i've been alerted of three risks. >> the risk o

new popular front finish the head of both president macro on centrist coalition. on the right way, national riley, who had been seeking a historic milestone after topping last week's fresh, broad, whoever new party. and she had the majority leaving the country in the ball. the the hey, look, win, or lose any excuse. we'll do to keep smashing stuff. i guess macro and talked about potential civil war when he considered the risk to be a victory of the anti establishment. right. looks like the left didn't even need that to keep treating the french landscape like it was just one giant pen jada. look, there are 2 big stories here in the wake of the 2nd round boat 1st. the french elected one thing and got exactly the opposite. just think about that and what it means for democracy and the claim. the government is representative of the people's will. when you look at the popular vote in the 2nd round, so the sum total of each individual ballot cast, it was actually a land slide national riley victory with over $10000000.00 votes. the left wing new popular front and back homes. establishment together. parties came in each at $6000000.00 and change. okay, so what happened? well, that's the 2nd big story he

new popular front to govern. marine le pen�*s far—right party, national rally, has come third — when it was expected to top the pollch prime minister gabriel attal says he will hand his resignation to president emmanuel macron on monday morning. i'm martine croxall, the other main stories this hour. new prime minister, keir starmer, tours the uk's nations, with his first stop, edinburgh. the israel army has issued new evacuation orders to palestinian residents and displaced families in parts of gaza city. thousands of people have lined the streets of yorkshire to pay their respects to rob burrow as his funeral was held. hello and welcome to paris — i'm christian fraser. where the french parliament is set for deadlock — after a surprising projected results showed the left—wing coalition — the new popular front — winning the most seats in the national assembly. it's forecast to win between 184 and 186 seats in total. it's a surprise turnaround from the first round last week, which saw the far—right national rally party win the biggest share of the vote. national rally is projected to have between 1m and 143 mps — a l

parties which actually now includes macron's party, they could , they could tell they could, they could tell their voters to support the, the new popular front to support the hard left. i mean, the new popular front. i'm surprised people aren't more alarmed. i know there's a lot of alarm on the left that le pen's party has done so well, but they're actually, you know, more of a sort of meloni style, sensible right wing party now, whereas the new popular front seemed to be raving maniacs who are communists and anti—semites and all kinds of all kinds of, and they did they did really surprisingly well. so they could still , if other surprisingly well. so they could still, if other parties get behind the new popular front, we could see a very different france to the one that le pen. >> once you've misread the room for about 25 years, leo, extremism only occurs on the right of politics. it does not occur on the left of politics. there is no form of extremism on left. you cannot go left far enough. i don't know where is the nth degree of the left by the nth degree of the left by the way, jordan peterson said that he's like, where does the left go

the french ministry of interior, the coalition of the new popular front won 182 seats, macron's coalition won 163 seats, and the national union party which had won the most votes in the first round , won 143 seats. france has 577 representatives and the parties are facing a challenge called absolute majority, i.e. acquiring at least 289 seats. the victory of the new people's front coalition in the elections of the french national assembly brought the supporters of this pro-palestinian coalition to the streets. the raising of the palestinian flag on the floor of the french parliament by the representatives of this waste. before he had faced various reactions from this election. in some cities, such as paris, rennes and nantes , clashes between party supporters were reported and some looted stores and shops . which was accompanied by the intervention of the police and the firing of tear gas. in the city of nanter, a police force. the counter- insurgent suffered burns due to the throwing of the injured kektlotov . the formation of a power triangle in the french parliament will make it very difficult for the president of this country u

the new popular front the makeshift coalition of left wing parties came in 1st place in a surprise for posters and a relief for their candidates. not to get our people have clearly ruled out the worst case scenario since wow this evening. so the national riley is far from having the absolute majority of the commentators were predicting a week ago. quite the contrary to man did this. he did had been a month of suspense for france, after centrist president emanuel mack hall called snap elections in a bid to catch a rising far right off guard and challenged them at the ballot box. the 1st round of votes did put me in the pens, anti immigration national rally party on track to win with some surveys predicting an outright majority. but after the centrist block collaborated with the left block, pull their support, they managed to pull off a shock, the feet of the far right. some national rally, supporters watching the results couldn't believe their eyes. or i thought we were going to have at least $250.00 impedes. so i'm disappointed the big small. it's true that the crowd locked in the popu

new popular front. supporters of melenchon and the new popularfront. it remains supporters of melenchon and the new popular front. it remains to be seen what share of the vote melenchon's partyill keep you up—to—date because they are quite —— there are large spreads, yet we still don't have an idea at this point which is the biggest group in the assembly. it could be president macron's ensemble movement is not that far behind the leftist coalition, we'll have to wait and see. i'll be back with more analysis later in the evening, but now will hand it back to london. studio: christian, thank you. i metjust i met just days i metjust days after scott and's political map was transformed in the general election. this is sir keir starmer speaking after that meeting. in a general election, we got a clear mandate for change, and one thing that needs to change and reset is the relationship between the uk government and scottish government, which is why i'm really pleased that my first official engagement as prime minister two days after i took up post is here in scotland, having a meeting with the first minister and deputy first minister. we discussed the economy, we discussed energy,