today have said that they are done. they ve been looking into this since january. and so we have the figures for the final count. after a bit of back and forth, it s a bit confusing. where they confuse fines and people. but we now know that they issued 126 fines to 83 people. so most of those fined got one fine. and we know that the prime minister was one of those, as was the chancellor and the prime minister s wife. we know that 28 people got between two and five, so at least one person got five! yeah. so who is the party animal? i ve no idea. but, yeah, at least one person getting five. and, yeah, when you speak to ministers, you can hear the relief in their voice because there was a lot of talk, wasn t there, at westminster about does the prime minister get more than one? does he wallpaper an entire wall with them by the end of it? and what does that mean, after that boiling anger from conservative mps for a couple of months ago? that anger has long since dissipated. i don
reported across 11 countries. there will be a full roundup of the day s news at ten o clock. first, it s newscast. welcome to the newscast studio this week. and we re going to bejoined by all sorts of interesting people who will be popping in and out throughout this episode. but first, chris, you ve had a busy old day covering what you could describe as maybe the beginning of the end of the downing street party story. yeah. so the metropolitan police today have said that they are done. they ve been looking into this since january. and so we have the figures for the final count. after a bit of back and forth, it s a bit confusing. where they confuse fines and people. but we now know that they issued 126 fines to 83 people. so most of those fined got one fine. and we know that the prime minister was one of those, as was the chancellor and the prime minister s wife. we know that 28 people got between two and five, so at least one person got five! so who is the party animal? i ve
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To you that realistically that s not going to happen. 0h, i d put it to you i think it will happen. i think it will or it will definitely happen? it will happen. look, chris, we have a mandate that was given to us by the people of scotland last year at the holyrood electionl and it s worth reflecting on what happened. - of course, we ve got the hybridj system, we have list members, we have constituency members. but the way that westminster looks at things of course - is through the prism l of first past the post. 73 seats in scotland. the snp won 82 of them, sorry, 62 of them. - we won 85% of the seats, first past the post, - where there s an overall. majority for independence in the scottish parliament. this is about democracy. what i m excited about is our government in edinburgh- will release a series - of papers about our vision for an independent scotland. how will we create that green future, that drive for energy? when will we see those? over the coming period, soon. i m look