Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney on Laura Kuenssberg show after Alex Salmond death

Laura Kuenssberg
Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

“It’s not at all how I imagined winning would be,” a minister reflects as the government hits its 100 days in office.

There have been slips and accusations of sleaze. Scores of announcements. Enormous international events.

The PM himself admits it’s been “choppy”. Even in the last 24 hours the government has blundered into a row with a big investor after a minister urged consumers to boycott them.

It was the US President Franklin D Roosevelt who came up with the entirely arbitrary concept of 100 days – those magical first couple of months when a leader has the chance to wow the public.

In FDR’s case, it was after America’s Great Depression.

Labour argues as loudly as it can that their inheritance was pretty dreadful too – and his first few months have had their fair share of disappointments.

There’s been a Downing Street staffers’ soap opera. A slump in the polls. Ructions in the party about a plan to take cash away from millions of pensioners. That’s the stuff of Labour nightmares.

Yet we’ve also seen ideas that are stuff of the party’s dreams. There are sweeping new rights at work. New laws to help get houses built. The railways coming back into public hands.

It’s been a topsy-turvy start – but what kind of government is this really turning out to be?Read the full article here.