[Gary McEwan]

Interesting to see the ITV Border political editor on the panel, I guess it shows that the ITV/STV relationship is much better than a few years ago!

I thought the set was very basic and quite crammed, and surprising not to see any STV branding on it anywhere - the first debate of the election is a bit of a scoop. These Scotland-only debates in a UK-election are a bit odd, inevitably debating devolved issues more than what the election is actually about and with none of the folk debating standing for Westminster (I assume that’s true for Douglas Ross, though not certain).

Peter MacMahon usually makes an appearance in the studio whenever there's a Scottish Leader's debate. Not the first time he's done political analysis.