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.

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

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.

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

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

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.