Alex Cole-Hamilton: “I absolutely agree. The struggle for progress and equality is never truly won. We have to win it with every generation.”

We will exact a high price on a vote by vote, issue by issue, budget by budget basis.

If you can build a budget with the backing of as many MSPs as possible, there's a stronger budget for it, and I know that's John Swinney's hope as well.

And if they did, I would find it deplorable, and I would absolutely condemn it to the rafters.

With the arithmetic of the parliament as it is, we're now without question the most influential and powerful group in the parliament.