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I'm joined by our political editor George Eaton,

an editor of the stag of Stephen Bush,

to talk about what's actually been quite an exciting week.

Stephen, I'm going to start with the Scottish Leaders debate.

So last night we saw Willie Renennie, the Lib Dem leader,

I'm impressed that I can remember that.

Nicholas Sturgeon, the SMP leader,

Jim Murphy Labour's leader in Scotland,

and Ruth Davidson, the Tory leader, having, well, they had a sort of weird format where they kind of had a moment in the spotlight, as they called it, and people find questions at them, and then they had a kind of bit more of a rough and tumble head to head.

I'm going to come out clean and say I really loved it. They all seemed very passionate. I heard

Ruth Davidson make a case against free prescription charges, hardly the most popular thing to advocate in the world in a way that was very simple and clear.

She said, you know, Nicholas Sturgeon, one of the best paid women in politics,

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