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 will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

We shall seek debate without division or rancour.

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

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.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

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