And as First Minister of scotland when his party faced the latest in a series of crises. John swinney, welcome to political thinking. Lovely to be with you, thank you. It has been something of a rollercoaster six months, havent it . You retire from Front Line politics, then the First Minister of scotland is forced from office and you decide to come back into Front Line politics, come to your partys rescue. Then Rishi Sunak calls a surprise early election in the summer, then you have a bit of a kick in the general election, the westminster election. Has it all been very stomach churning . Its been absolutely a whirlwind. A whirlwind, i think is the best way to describe it, because i quite literally, in the days before Humza Yousaf resigned as First Minister, was making further plans about what would be my gentle scaling down of political activity. And i was actually on the day that he resigned, giving a reflective speech about 25 years of devolution in scotland down here in london. And
Investigation is continuing just now, that has been difficult for the snp, hard for people to move past that. There was a lack of progress, of course, on independence. A number of people who have criticised a strategy that Nicola Sturgeon pursued, that Hamza Yusuf pursued as well, her successor, and of course Nicola Sturgeon was such a successful politician. She resigned quite suddenly and was replaced by Hamza Yusuf as her predecessor, who had a short time as First Minister and of course, he did not have the support at holyrood in the chamber i do not have enough mps to get things through. So there were a minority government, they had lost their Partnership Support so he had to go. John swinney is now coming in, trying to address a lot of those problems, a lot of those problems beyond their control, such as the police investigation. 0ther control, such as the police investigation. Other problems, when it comes to delivering, for example, Government Advisers here quite candid, say, yes
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