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that brings you the biggest stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster.

It is 20 past 1.

I'm Phil Sim, a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament and today I'm joined by. I am Raj Skiyp Sundew, a Westminster journalist.

And I am Kirsten Campbell and I'm sitting next to Phil in the studio in the Scottish Parliament.

The Scottish Parliament, which is currently in recess, but we've made it our base of operations

for the final week of the election campaign.

Gosh, it's feeling very last week of the election campaign, isn't it?

It's been a long campaign in a weird way, Kirsten.

Yeah, do you know, I have a confession to me,

because I do love an election night.

There is nothing more exciting,

and I attended love an election night. There is nothing more exciting. And I attended my first election night as a schoolgirl on work experience in 1987.

But I hate campaigns.

That's probably sacrilege for a political correspondent to admit that.

But I just find them really dull because you hear the same messages again and again and again on repeat

because obviously

each time might be the first time that a voter hears it. And so that's what they have to do,

but I just find it a bit tedious, I'm afraid. I don't think that you are alone in that opinion

in the political journalist world because election campaigns just aren't very glamorous.

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