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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday

Roundup. The results from the Super Thursday elections are now in and the SNP have re-established their

dominant position in Scotland. Andrew Marr spoke to the Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove

and asked him about First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's plans for the future.

Nicholas Sturgeon made a very stalwart speech yesterday in which he was absolutely clear

that the freshly elected Scottish Parliament is going to pass legislation for a new independence

referendum. Straightforward question. Will you take her to court to stop it? No. The first thing that I

should say is... No, you won't take it to court. The first thing I should say is congratulations to Nicola.

She has secured with 64 MSPs a significant election victory, and I want to congratulate her on that.

And I also want to take the opportunity to congratulate the new members of the Scottish Parliament who've been elected,

a more diverse group than ever before, representing different traditions and communities in Scotland,

showing that democracy in Scotland is healthy. The other thing that is critically important,

however, is an acknowledgement on the part of all of us as political leaders, whatever parties

we come from, that the priority at the moment

is not court cases, it's not independence legislation, it is recovery from the pandemic.

And to be fair to the First Minister, to be fair to Nicholas Sturgeon, during the course of this

election campaign, she said that was the single most important thing that we should all be

concentrating on. And we should work together as Team UK in order to deal with the pandemic.

I'm going to come on to the pandemic and indeed the timing later on.

But I asked you whether you would take her to court if she had another independence referendum legislated for.

And you said no.

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