Michael Marra: “While a pause is welcome, the SNP now need to take this ludicrous threat off the table entirely.”

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

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.

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.

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.