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

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

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.

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.

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.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.