Michael Marra: “All parties need to get round the table and hammer out a deal, and working people should never be threatened like this…”

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.

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.

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.