Your party raised the en- en- energy profits levy.

The reason John Swinney isn't here is because he knows that he cannot answer these questions.

What we should be doing, going back to the original question, is given the wake-up call right now, the volatility in our world, the fact we can't rely on allies as we once did, is, makes energy security absolutely critical.

We need to drill for everything we have in the North Sea.

We need to get behind the renewables industry to allow people like this lady's husband to get those jobs in the, the future industry of renewables, and we need to back new nuclear.

Just this week, there was new nuclear, uh, plant beginning construction in Wales with the creation of 8,000 new jobs.

But again, the boneheaded SNP are ideologically opposed to new nuclear, just as they're opposed to extracting oil and gas, while pretending that somehow they're maybe for it.

Russell

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Uh, and so, you know, in terms of our, uh, direction of travel, one of the criticisms, um, of-... of the party has been that we have been overly focused on the union, defending the union.

I won't apologize for that because our party name is the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.

We're the only party who can be trusted to, to do so, to see off the SNP.

We did so in twenty sixteen, twenty twenty-one.

Um, but what we have done, and we've, we've, we've understood, given the cost of living pressures, that we must put a lot more focus on the economy, on taxation.

That's where this battle ought to be.

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