Let me be plain about myself. I am in this for Scotland and nowhere else. I am not building the kind of career that ends in ermine. You will never see my name on a list for the House of Lords. I want to serve the country I am from.
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I want to build local wealth and local power and renew Labour as a force for change within the Scottish Parliament and without.
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