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

widening the tax base

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

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…

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.

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."

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

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

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.

We cannot reduce ourselves to being a party of commentators.

I am standing to unite our party, to back our movement, to seize this moment and rebuild Scottish Labour as a party for working people of Scotland.

I will not stop lobbying the UK Government until Jackdaw and Rosebank are approved, and the jobs linked to these projects are protected.

Oil and gas will continue to form part of Scotland's energy mix for years to come.

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.

Scotland should be leading the energy transition, but that will happen only if we keep skilled workers in employment, support them into the jobs of the future and ensure that the wealth created here benefits communities here.

Unison is right. You cannot rebuild public services by cutting the jobs of the people who deliver them.

Power should sit as close as possible to the people it affects. That means a stronger Scotland in a changing UK.