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So are you looking forward to Nicola this morning?

I'm kind of looking forward to it, but I'm scared shippers, to be honest. Are you?

Yeah, well, it's one of those things where I feel completely under-briefed,

and I just don't think you can understand all the ins and out of Scottish politics unless you actually live here.

So I'm just worried that

I'm just not got the level of detail. You'll be fine. But the thing is, she can't say an awful

lot, can she? This is what I don't understand in that I fully expected her to pull out. I actually

looked back in the correspondence I've had with her,

and we agreed to do this on the 22nd of February.

She's been arrested since then.

Yeah, exactly.

And I did then contact her, I think at the end of March, saying,

still up for this?

And much to my surprise, she said, oh yeah.

So it's going to be I mean what

we can't do is I can't just ask questions on the detail of it because all she

can say is well I can't answer that because of the police investigation and

they haven't put any preconditions on the conversation.

So I'm still at a loss as to why she wants to do it.

So that's effectively going to be the first question.

Yeah.

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