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

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.

We urgently need clarity from the SNP government about their reforms, and a commitment that it will mean more powers and more funding for local communities.

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.

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