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Hi, I'm Anouche and I'm Chris. Today it's a devolution special and I'm delighted to be joined

by Chris Deeren, our Scotland editor, to talk about the upcoming Scottish elections

and also Nicola Sturgeon's recent woes, and then we'll be talking a bit about what's happening

in Wales too. Now it's a big week for Boris Johnson. He will be up before the commons

apologising for the fine he received for partygate. Then we have PMQs, so we will be talking about

all of that on Thursday once all of the pieces have fallen into place without political editor

Andrew Marr. But Chris, thanks so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. It's a perfect time to

have you on, actually. There's a lot to talk about, but the most obvious topic dominating the

front pages of the Scottish papers today that we're recording on Tuesday morning is the first

Minister Nicola Sturgeon's own mini-version of partygate. She's had to apologise for not wearing

a mask after she was filmed breaching the rules in a barbershop and police officers have

had to speak to her to remind her of the importance of wearing a mask. How damaging is this?

It's not the first time it's happened, is it? She had to apologise for taking a mask off at

a wake in December 2020, if I remember. Yeah, I hate to be a bore, but I do struggle to get

particularly exercised about this one. I think the First Minister briefly had her mask off.

I think we've all done it. We've gone into places and realised that we haven't

gotten a bit of a mask on, and the photograph gets taken at the right time then,

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