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Hi, it's Chris Deerin here for the last of a four Scottish election special editions of the New Statement Podcast.

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Coming up in this episode.

I'm not sure that Boris Johnson is an movable object.

I think Boris Johnson is in what I can only politely describe as deep, deep do do.

With the hollywood election looming, I interviewed Scotland's first minister, Nicholas Sturgeon

and among other things we spoke about why she's still confident that she can lead Scotland out of the UK

in the next five years.

Also, who is going to cause Nicholas Sturgeon more trouble?

Is it Alexander the couple of his cronies or a couple of bog standard replacement level conservative or labour MSPs?

The answer to that, it seems to me, is self-evident.

She can't get away from this idea that she's too cautious and it wouldn't surprise me

I'm Julie if she didn't blast the term.

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