starmer was visiting greenock last friday he talked about the damaging conflicts ongoing between the uk and the scottish government and he pledged to improve that relationship should he become prime minister. do you commit to working with him on that, on that toxicity that we have seen, even if he suggests it ends up denting the support of independents? i have been engaged with intergovernmental relationships with the government for many years and i have had many occasions where that has been successful and constructive and many where it has been difficult and many where it has been difficult and we have not been able to get agreement. for most of the time that has been a respectful environment. i would say that my experience of the gordon brown government, the cameron and clegg government, the following cameron government and the theresa may governments were generally on issues that affected people prosper but lives pretty constructive. i have to say, i was part of those dis
well. you can listen to the rest of whatjohn swinney has to say on the bbc news website and mobile app. let s get some reaction now to what john swinney has been saying in glasgow. liz lloyd is the former chief of staff to the former snp leader and first minister nicola sturgeon. liz, thank you very much forjoining us again. we spoke beforejohn swinney forjoining us again. we spoke before john swinney started forjoining us again. we spoke beforejohn swinney started speaking before john swinney started speaking and it is good to have you with us again. john swinney saying clarity to get rid of the conservatives, but also urging people and telling neighbour not to assume that scotland is a done dealfor them either. what you make of whatjohn swinney had to say? that is what you will hear from the snp in the next four or five weeks, that the snp looks at the seats in scotland where the tories are in