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 love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

We shall seek debate without division or rancour.

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.