The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.

The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end.

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.

The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.

On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.

We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.