Joe Fagan: “If I am elected leader, we will take a different approach, and it starts with a serious offer to John Swinney and the…”

Too often, councils are asked to make impossible choices, but power is pulled upwards. If we're to rebuild trust, we should start from the places where people actually experience politics.

We cannot reduce ourselves to being a party of commentators.

The question is whether we support Scottish jobs and Scottish industry, or import more of the energy we need while allowing our skills and supply chains to disappear.

There's a case for widening the tax base through some new approaches, such as environmental taxes.