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

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

We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.

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

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

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.