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Go to www.spotator.com.com.com.com.com. Hello and welcome to Coffeehouse shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics

Podcast. I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and James Versafe. Nicholas Sturgeon

has survived a motion of no confidence in the Scottish Parliament.

In fact, it turned out to be rather a damp squib.

Fraser, can you talk us through what happened?

The Scottish Conservatives had said last week they were going to stage as vote,

and there were points when I looked as though it could be quite a dramatic affair.

To be honest, I always thought it was a rather a daft gesture by the Scottish Conservatives.

She was always going, no matter how the reports had gone for her,

and even if she'd been found guilty by the Hamilton inquiry

and guilty by the Scottish Parliament's investigation,

she was always going to pass a confidence motion.

Any opposition, can at any point sort of press this button and think, okay, we're going to pass a confidence motion. Any opposition can at any point sort of press

this button and think, okay, we're going to have a confidence motion. And it creates a little bit of

drama while in the bill to the vote. But unless the prime minister or the first minister in this

case is seriously lost the majority, then there's absolutely no point. Usually it serves

to shore up whoever it is, that's the target of a no-confidence motion. I think the Scottish

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