Joe Fagan: “Unison is right. You cannot rebuild public services by cutting the jobs of the people who deliver them.”

If I am elected leader, we will take a different approach, and it starts with a serious offer to John Swinney and the SNP Government.

The debates around the process for independence is a relic of the Sturgeon era.

If reform is needed, it should start with backing the workforce, funding councils fairly and stopping public money being drained into excessive profits in social care.

I trust local Labour groups to have maximum input for the power-sharing arrangements that they enter into. I trust them to do the right thing.