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DERMOT MURNAGHAN: Now we are seeing a Candle of Hope being lit by a variety of Sunday School children from the parish and watching this with me at the moment is the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, who is, as we all are, taken by the poignancy of the situation. Your thoughts Danny Alexander as you watch this and as you heard about this most incredible event on Friday night.

DANNY ALEXANDER: It is just a truly shocking event. I think everyone’s heart goes out to all those people who have been affected, those who have lost loved ones and those who have been injured but also the tremendous response both from the community of Glasgow, the people, the passers-by who stopped to help, to help rescue people and the work of the emergency services of course who have lost some of their own people through the helicopter crashing. It is just a feeling of great shock and sadness and sympathy at the moment and seeing this service from Glasgow Cathedral just brings home again the enormity of what’s happened.

DM: And it brings home, I mean look at all generations there, it brings home – and a cross-section of society – it brings home, I mean we could talk about this in political terms but it doesn’t seem relevant when things like this happen.

DANNY ALEXANDER: It’s relevant at all. The thing that brought it home to me is I was watching my parliamentary friend, but rival, Jim Murphy on the television late on Friday night, who was obviously passing by and it’s what all of us hope we would do but we don’t know, but to step in to help and to hear him talking about it. Here’s someone you know caught up in it just brings home the enormity of what’s happened.