Alan Campbell: “Scotland has ambition without infrastructure, which amounts to good intentions, but nothing more than an aspiration.”

I find it incredible that the Scottish Government has not joined the dots. Where there's health deprivation, there's economic deprivation, and there's access to credit deprivation.

People listening to this … will do so with a degree of incredulity that [the Conservative party] was preferring to go down a route of playing some weird political game while the Middle East is on the brink of conflagration.

Absolutely. If they don't have access to credit, what options have they when something goes wrong in their life?

They didn't choose. They didn't go to you know Paris every weekend with a partner, or you know go to the U.S. World Cup. They were just getting along, and something terrible happened to them.