Joe Fagan: “I'm my own man, and nobody's puppet.”

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.

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.

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.

Scottish Labour should be absolutely clear that we will resist the SNP’s austerity.