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Rishi Sunak came to the Highlands where he doesn’t even have a candidate.
Keir Starmer promised Scotland the earth, but not a location for his fabled GB Energy HQ.
John Swinney found himself in an election moments after becoming First Minister.
We discuss week one, we test the water among the people of Perth, and all the rest in the first of our election podcasts.

Simon Barker, a children's orthopaedic surgeon in Aberdeen, explains the growing concern over the use of new “physician associates” in a stretched health service.
Are they valuable, quickly-trained additions, or is this “mission creep” to paper over gaps doctors can’t always cover?
Dr Barker is deputy chairman of the British Medical Association’s Scottish council, and works in NHS Grampian.

Douglas Ross tells us drug addiction and death is a problem in rural areas like his Moray constituency, not just cities with problems such as Dundee and Glasgow.
The Tory leader explains why his ‘right to addiction recovery bill’ should get support at Holyrood.
We also look our coverage of the Men’s Sheds scheme which forced the SNP into a funding U-turn.
And we explore Scottish Labour’s problems getting local candidates into constituencies.

Becoming first minister was the easy bit for John Swinney.
Now the handshakes and warm words are over, the hard work of governing begins.
We speak with Kayleigh Quinn, who knows a thing or two about wrangling a difficult group at Holyrood.
The former Scottish Labour organiser tells us what might be going through the new leader’s head as he looks at reshaping the SNP.

Humza Yousaf folded on April 29 after losing authority by ditching his Green coalition partners.
We ask people in the outgoing first minister’s home city of Dundee what they think of his year in charge.
We also hear from Green MSP Maggie Chapman, who was asked if she still has confidence in her own party leaders.
Our political reporters look at the wreckage and discuss what might happen next as another SNP leadership contest looms.

A long-running plea for justice in the north of Scotland is being described as similar in scale to the Post Office scandal.
At its heart are the dozens of families devastated by conman Alistair Greig.
He was a respected financial advisor based in Aberdeen who ended up duping 184 victims out of £13 million.
Now they want justice.
To tell the story, we’re joined by Dale Haslam, an investigations reporter with the Press and Journal newspaper.
He has just returned from Westminster to hear from MPs including Alistair Carmichael pushing the campaigner’s case for answers.