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Hello and welcome to this special Saturday edition of Coffley House Scots.

I'm joined today by the Bantas Lucy Dunn and former SMP advisor, Fergus Munch.

Now Lucy, it's been a big week in Scottish politics at the beginning of the week it looked like John Swinney was going to face a leadership challenge that didn't transpire

since then he's been swollen as first minister has named his cabinet

tell us about those appointments and what they mean for the future of the S&P.

Yes, we've seen this reshuffle, which was the focus of a lot of attention on Wednesday.

I think there was some thought that it was a little bit underwhelming given there wasn't really that

much change and it's been dubbed this

continuity cabinet because we've seen Kate Forbes were back in his deputy first

minister and she now holds the economy brief that's been taking off Mary MacAllan

but apart from Kate Forbes coming back in and actually apart from John Swinney being

first minister he was a backbencher for the last year the rest of the cabinet

hasn't particularly changed and actually I think what's more interesting is some of the more junior

positions so we've seen the Minister for Independence Jamie Hepburn's previous role

completely scrapped. Jamie Hepburn is now the minister for parliamentary business instead.

We've seen Ivan McKee, who was Kate Forbes's campaign manager during the

SMP leadership contest, brought back in as a junior minister.

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