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.

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.

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

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.

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?