kind of emotional attachment there. does it worry you that people in the end can't resist using an alleged scandal to make a political point when you know what the consequences of that are personally? first of all, it's for the police to make thatjudgment. it is not for me to interfere in that the police investigation or make any assumptions on that police investigation. i think there is a wider point, though, which i think goes to the heart of what you are asking. if the route back for the labour party relies purely on the carnage in the snp, it's not going to work. the only route back for the labour party is one of course for people to want to move away from a government that has been in power now for 16 years and has failed to deliver. but they also need to see a positive alternative destination they can support so they can get change. do they need to get a sense you understand why it went badly wrong? absolutely. i remember being in glasgow