Michael Marra

Councils have been underfunded and too often Labour councillors have been the last line of defence for local services in the teeth of cuts handed out from Holyrood.

Now it is time to show them what we are for – a fairer Scotland, cutting child poverty and giving every young person a fair go in life.

Labour is changing lives for the better across the UK and making the big arguments about the future of the country.

Labour is “becoming Scotland’s party of hope again”

It means that if there are complaints they will be treated with respect and looked at. But we don’t have complaints at the moment.

My first priority in all of this is that people have a right to come to their work and do their job and to feel they can speak up about any issue at any time.

He is the most popular politician in Scotland by a distance, the most popular politician since Nicola Sturgeon, but we need to translate that into party support.

I don’t think there is any prime minister in history that has lost popularity at the rate the previous prime minister did, and the rate at which that happened was particularly challenging.

Of course it is the aim, we are going to fight for every vote in every seat – but where we are at the moment we are a long way from that.

That's why we need to get education back at the heart of Scottish politics and make our system world leading again.

In 2015 Nicola Sturgeon said closing the attainment gap between the richest and the poorest pupils was her top priority and appointed John Swinney to do it.

Scotland’s addiction crisis would have been resolved were it “a middle-class epidemic”.

I ask you, back that motion and send the clearest possible message that the Labour movement will never accept threats to working people.

They have paused the process conference, but that isn't good enough.

This week our biggest city – Glasgow City Council run by the SNP and propped up by the Greens – threatened the largest fire and rehire in British history.

While a pause is welcome, the SNP now need to take this ludicrous threat off the table entirely.

This conference will debate an emergency motion condemning the council, backing our trade unions, and calls for the threat of fire and rehire to be taken off the table for good.

In Scotland, we have some difficult truths to face up to. May was the sixth Holyrood election in a row where we have lost votes and seats.

All parties need to get round the table and hammer out a deal, and working people should never be threatened like this again.

It’s a despicable way to treat working people. It’s straight out the Tory playbook.

It's beggars belief that the SNP council is threatening to railroad through fire and rehire before it is made illegal in this country by the UK Labour government.

Thank you Anas, for everything you have done for our party.

He took over a party that was out on its feet – he strapped on his boots and he took us to a place where we led the charge in kicking the Tories out of Downing Street.

I want to see the Scottish Government focus on those issues first and foremost.