Joe Fagan

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

I would never personally take a seat in the Lords. And not just because I think the robes look 'ridiculous'.

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

We weren't at that point.

It wasn't a good look for him to stop being a Glasgow MSP and head to Westminster's upper chamber.

Obvious when the will of the Scottish people had changed

It should be possible to protect access to certain spaces and services on the basis of biological sex, particularly following the Supreme Court judgment.

The Labour Party is the party of equality. The Labour Party that I lead… we punch down on no one, absolutely no one.

I think the generation that I want to lead in Scottish Labour is the generation that wants to win – a generation that can make Labour win again.

I think Anas Sarwar’s shadow cabinet got it wrong because I’m not the continuity candidate.

Widening the tax base

I don't think it's the priority for voters right now – but I also just think that if, not when, if the issue of independence and another referendum were to re-emerge and it was obvious there was a demand for it, we wouldn’t be debating…

I don't support independence and I don't support another independence referendum.

Scottish Labour has to change more than the faces at the top.

I will carry myself as the leader of the Labour Party in this nation.

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.

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.

I'm my own man, and nobody's puppet.

I want to carry myself as leader of the Scottish Labour Party.

Devolution, as Donald Dewar said, is about who we are and how we carry ourselves.

I don’t think that’s a viable way forward.

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.

It is time now for Scottish Labour to be bold, to be confident and to shape what happens next.

We cannot reduce ourselves to being a party of commentators.