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

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.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

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.

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

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