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.

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 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.

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

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

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

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