along with a wider yes movement, that really pushed this idea, got a lot of people to believe in it and even though they failed with their campaign to make scotland an independent country, she was a very popular politician at the time. thousands of people turned up to hear her speak, she is also a formidable communicator, you saw that perhaps best during covid, she had those daily press briefings, her critics would argue that while she was a great communicator, perhaps the policy didn t back it up. certainly, since she has left the government, many of her policies or some of her policies, hummus profile ones, have encountered difficulties or been pushed to the side, the deposit return scheme has been delayed, the gender recognition reform bill is going to be fought in the courts with the uk government.
a surprise. but it does point to difficulties to the snp, humza yousaf the new leader of the snp the relatively new first minister has been trying to get out from under the shadow of nicola sturgeon. he is been trying to reset his government policies. he shelved and delayed a couple of policies that were quite high profile ones under nicola sturgeon governing and her time as first minister. he has the lead the deposit return scheme, the that gender recognition for four build up in court so he has been struggling politically and today did a major interview on the bbc on if deal where he s trying to relaunch himself heat there has been this arrest of his predecessor. so not a pleasant time in terms of snp politicians and a difficult times in terms of the politics and how they move on from this long running investigation that the police say is going to take as long as it takes.
police, that had been lying in the driveway are peter murrell s home. we had the police raising the party s we had the police raising the pa rty s central we had the police raising the party s central office, and taking away all sorts of things. they were taking away sets of knives, apparently. they were taking away gifts, jewelry, allegedly, or not allegedly, because this was conceded later on. and it was in fact reported that they had been looking at a number of high value items, including a fridge freezer. so, there is a kind of comic aspect to this clearly, and the whole thing has been somewhat farcical, but it is actually very very serious for the former governing party in scotland, and for humza yousaf, they ve been trying to get his feet under the table in bute house. as the new first minister. and he has been knocked back at every stage. lastly, we had the collapse of this deposit return scheme, which could leave them liable to, the scottish government are liable to compensatio
relationship and in fact in an interview he did prior to nicola sturgeon s arrest but which was broadcast today, he talked of the fact that he has been in contact with nicola sturgeon. he said he had been asking her about her welfare in that it has been a very stressful time for her. this is not a good development for the snp. it is a party under a bit of pressure. he is having to ditch some high profile policies such as the deposit return scheme. and he is under pressure under other policy areas such as the gender recognition reform bill and asissues gender recognition reform bill and as issues on the ferry services to us the scott lish islands and trying to put a recent on his but this will inevitably dominate the new cycle for days and weeks to come. and it is not over yet. the police will still methodically continue with their investigation and at some point in the next few weeks and
because they can t get any ferries that are the response ability of the scottish cabinet. we have policy after policy that has been thrown in the bin, whether that be the gender recognition act, 0r the bin, whether that be the gender recognition act, or the deposit return scheme. there is nothing happening at the moment, that the scottish governance can say is positive, in terms of what they have put together. scottish people will be looking atjust believe in a television screen site, that the former first minister, somebody held up former first minister, somebody held up as being for them and for the scottish parliament and a scottish governor, being arrested and questioned by the police. at the scottish government. maybe some of the questions being answered by these events. the questions being answered by these events. ~ ., ., , ., ., these events. what are you hearing from our these events. what are you hearing from your constituents these events. what are you hearing from you