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Hi, it's Stephen here. You're listening to part two of our election results podcast extravaganza.

In this episode, Anush Alvar and I joined by Christian to discuss what the results mean for Scotland

and the New Statements polling expert Ben Walker talks us through the impact of the local results around the country.

If you'd like to hear Alvar and Anush and I discuss in granular detail the fall out of the election for labour

and what is going on with the reshuffle, you can listen to part one of this double episode

immediately before this episode in the same feed.

Another crucial part of these election results are of course the results in the Scottish Parliament elections

and we're delighted to be joined by Chris Deer and our Scotland editor to talk us through these.

Chris, what was the story of these election results and what does it mean for the future,

not only of Scottish politics but of the union too?

I suppose it depends on where you're starting from if you were pro-independence before the election.

You will now claim that the result has put rocket boosters behind the campaign for independence,

the SNP and the Greens together 172 seats and Nicholas Sturgeon has already said that obviously this is a mandate for her to go to Boris Johnson

and demand a second referendum.

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