Michael Marra: “The leader gets, in the end, the manifesto that they want.”

For me politics is about improving people’s lives: creating better jobs, strengthening public services, expanding opportunities for young people and rebuilding trust among people who feel politics has stopped listening to them.

The Scottish Parliament voted for a legal target to have fewer than one in 10 kids in poverty by 2030. That target is going to be missed by a mile.

We must change our culture. And if anyone thinks that the negative briefing this last week will win us a single vote, then they are dangerously deluded."

Our education system has had enough of botchved, incremental, top-down reform.