My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

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.

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.

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

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

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