Channel 4 leaders' debate: How we scored the five candidates to be First Minister

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64 MSPs, one up on the number the party achieved in 2106.

candidates. Yesterday, Salmond predicted he would "fall short" of winning a seat with his new party due to a number of factors including the short time from launching the party to polling day and the lack of TV coverage for Alba.

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Nicola Sturgeon has arrived at a polling station as party leaders cast their votes up and down the country in the Scottish Election. The First Minister was all smiles as she greeted supporters and voters outside the Annette Street school in Govanhill, Glasgow, this morning, May 6.Sturgeon has already voted by post but joined SNP candidate Rosa Salih to lend her support and meet a Syrian family as they cast their ballots.

ix weeks of campaigning messages to just a few sentences. Scots across the country will head to the polling booths tomorrow, May 6, in what is being described as the most significant election since devolution in 1999.

Douglas Ross (Scottish Conservatives), Willie Rennie (Lib Dems) and Patrick Harvie (Scottish Greens) all went up against one another in a tame BBC TV debate.

live TV debate between Scotland’s five main party leaders. Policy on covid recovery, foreign travel and the creation of a National Care Service was hammered out in a lively discussion.

BBC debate was the first to show the five party leaders having a genuine discussion on politics. Previous showings had been tedious, with politicians wheeling out their pre-prepared soundbites and key messages.Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Douglas Ross (Tory), Anas Sarwar (Lab), Willie Rennie (LD) and Patrick Harvie (Greens) generated heat rather than light in those early debates.

Tom Parker Bowles is sharing his thoughts.

The popular Netflix series The Crown, which is based on the royal family, indeed poses quite a few interesting questions. One of which is who would inherit the throne after Queen Elizabeth II.

Janey Godley has been keeping Scots entertained through the pandemic with her hilarious Nicola Sturgeon voiceovers. But today the comedian turned her hand to a new politician - Arlene Foster, who resigned as DUP leader and Northern Ireland's First Minister this afternoon.

Falkirk will get the chance to quiz Scotland's political party leaders as part of a radio debate show on 103.1 Central FM.

audience. The programme tonight will be hosted by news anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy who will ask the leaders the questions throughout the show.

STV but it is now the turn of Channel 4 to host its debate. The debate, which will be held in Glasgow, will be chaired by Krishnan Guru-Murthy and will last around 45 minutes with a number of topics discussed from Scotland's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic to Scottish independence.

Barry Ferguson, as he feels Rangers will be worried about facing the winger on Sunday. The Scotland international has missed most of this season with an ankle problem, and is in doubt for the Scottish Cup clash at the weekend with a muscular problem.