We've got lots of big stories and guests for you today. We're talking about the SMP conference,

the latest in the war in Ukraine. And for the second half of the show, I'll be joined once again

by the one and only Ash Sarkar. Me and Ash will be talking about Liz Truss' hat trick of U-turns

and the latest twisted ramblings from Britain's home secretary, as worrying as they have ever been.

This afternoon, Nicola Sturgeon gave her speech to the SMP party conference in Aberdeen.

It's the first time the SMP have met since the coronavirus pandemic, and Sturgeon didn't go

easy on the Tories. The current home secretary, speaking at the Conservative Party conference,

said this about asylum seekers. And even as I quote her, I struggle to comprehend that she actually

said these words. But here they are. I would love to be having a front page of the telegraph

with a plane taking off to Rwanda. That's my dream, it's my obsession. Conference,

my dream is very different. I'm sure it is shared in this hall and by the vast majority across

Scotland. My dream is that we live in a world where those fleeing violence and depression

are shown compassion and treated like human beings, not shown the door and bundled onto planes

like unwanted cargo. It took the Tories three years, three long years to realize that Boris Johnson

was a disaster. With List Trust, it took them just three weeks.

She caused mehem in the markets with her decision to borrow billions of pounds to fund

tax cuts for the richest. Borrowing to be repaid by eye-watering austerity cuts

and a raid on the incomes of the poorest. It is unconscionable.

The Prime Minister's justification is that she is going for growth. Conference,

let me tell you what kind of growth that will be. Growth in the gap between rich and poor.

Growth in the rates of poverty. Growth in the pressure on our NHS and other public services.

And without any doubt, growth in the deep disgust that the public feel for all of it.

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