My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.