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

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

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.

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

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.

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

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.