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'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.

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

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

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

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.