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Alex Salmond said the Scottish lion had "roared "after the SNP recorded its historic landslide General Election victory in Scotland. Until this week, the SNP held six of Scotland's 59 seats; now, it holds 56. That victory demonstrates, and in some measure explains, the constitutional rift in the United Kingdom.

Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg resigned this week after their party's disappointing General Election. How will the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats rebuild for the future?

In the run up to the Election the Conservatives proposed cutting 拢12bn in welfare after the election, without specifying how. The Department for Work & Pensions proposals were canvassed the year before and those plans may include abolishing statutory maternity pay and barring under-25s from claiming incapacity benefit or housing benefit. Money could also be raised, civil servants suggested, by increasing the bedroom tax in certain cases

David Cameron reiterated on Friday that he would implement his party's manifesto in full, including an in/out referendum on Britain's EU membership in 2017. (Maybe even in 2016)

"The time has come for real, genuine, radical political reform," Nigel Farage said after losing his bid to take Thanet South from the Conservatives. The UKIP leader had increased his party's share of the vote in the seat by 27%, and nationally UKIP's vote share was up by 10 percentage points to a total of 3.9 million. Still, the party won just one constituency under the UK's first-past-the-post voting system.
The Greens' ambitions were similarly thwarted: they won more than a million votes but just one seat. Should Proportional Representation be introduced?

Presenter is Anita Anand.
Producers are Maire Devine & Alex Lewis.
Editor is Karen Dalziel.