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.
Scottish Labour leadership pitch
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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