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

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.

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.

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

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.

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.

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.