Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

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.

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.

I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.

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

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.

Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.