Michael Marra

The Scottish Parliament voted for a legal target to have fewer than one in 10 kids in poverty by 2030. That target is going to be missed by a mile.

As Scottish Labour leader I would hold the SNP to account on their failures but also work with them to help Scotland succeed.

We have lost definition as to who the Labour Party is.

I would have been willing to resign over it.

We’ve lost definition as to who the Labour Party is.

I would've been willing to resign over it.

All they bring is division, distrust and a brand, I think, of right wing populism that is actually a challenge to the soul of our country.

Of course I do. I always will. We have to make sure that we pull together as a team.

That situation was entirely unacceptable.

Women’s health was systematically neglected in Scotland.

Public contracts in Scotland should have a Scottish jobs guarantee written into them — we need to end the offshoring of good jobs in Scotland while our industrial base withers.

lost definition as to who the Labour Party is

willing to consider looking at a wealth tax

I tell you, it’s when you’re the person who is actually a threat to the establishment, when you want to shake things up and change the direction of the party, that’s when people come shooting.

The leader gets, in the end, the manifesto that they want.

Our education system has had enough of botchved, incremental, top-down reform.

We must break the consensus of silence and renew our education system.

Education must one again be at the heart of building a modern and fairer Scotland.

The next leader has to renew the party and rediscover its moral purpose.

I say it because it shows how deeply disconnected we have become.

Across the UK, we lost to political insurgents that were railing against a Labour government that had lost contact with the country, but in Scotland we lost to a feckless, incompetent, and corrupt SNP, whose two-decade record has seen…

We must change our culture. And if anyone thinks that the negative briefing this last week will win us a single vote, then they are dangerously deluded.

If we don't change, we'll be here again in five years. And how's that going to feel?

Today’s GERS figures show that Scotland pays its fair share of tax but enjoys higher public spending thanks to redistribution throughout the UK.