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

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.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

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

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.

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

My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.