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
let s not get into that. now, ian, you mentioned the croft that you run with your wife. i saw that you tweeted a video of some very cute lambs gambling abouts in a beautiful scenic setting, a bit of grass, a bit of greenery, bit of sea, very cute. a bit of grass i wish- there was grass and we could you re now testing my sheep rearing knowledge, but, be honest for us townies, are some of those cute lambs, have they ended up on people s plates by now? not yet! let s be honest, - i mean, we have sheep. lambing takes place every every spring. i we will sell the lambs laterj on this year, they ll be sold on to be fattened up elsewhere. i hate to say it. i mean, if you re a girl, - then you ve got a decent future ahead of you because you ll be used for breeding purposes. i if you re a male, well, - you need to become what we would call a topper ram. or that is unfortunately, . largely the lamb that you ll see on your plate in a year s time or so. | but that s the feeding chain. where it be
system, we have list members, we have constituency members. but the way that westminster looks at things of course - is through the prism 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. - now, ian, you mentioned the croft that you run with your wife. i saw that you tweeted a video of some very cute lambs gambling abouts in a beautiful scenic setting, a bit of grass, a bit of greenery, bit of sea, very cute. a bit of grass - i wish there was grass and we could stop feeding them. 0k. you re now testing my sheep rearing knowledge, but, be honest for us townies, are some of those cute lambs, have they ended up on people s plates by now? no, not yet. j ok, not yet!