Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

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.

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

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

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

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

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.