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

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.

We shall seek debate without division or rancour.

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.

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'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.

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