Unlike the Labour Party and the Tories, the SNP will never work with Reform or do any deals with them.

We'll negotiate with anybody, we'll help anybody into power, but you don't need to be the last word and psephologist to know what the SNP will demand in exchange for that support.

The key point I was making, albeit clumsily, is that the SNP will demand Scotland’s democratic right to choose our own future is respected, regardless of who is in government at Westminster.

We absolutely couldn't stand there and say, ‘Well, we could do this or we could do that with them, or we could do that with them, but we don't really like their politics’.

The pursuit of Scottish independence is at the forefront of everything we do.

The SNP is clear that the very real threat of a Nigel Farage Reform UK government makes it all the more important that Scotland has a choice over our future with an independence referendum.

Just one month into the job and Andy Burnham has already broken his promise to cut the cost of living – as household bills soar on his watch in Broken Brexit Britain.

The fact that the UK government has taken over £400 billion of Scotland's energy wealth, and hoarded it at Westminster, while the Labour Party destroys thousands of Scottish energy jobs, underlines why Scotland needs independence so we can…

This is not the 'change' that Andy Burnham promised – and it means most families will be worse off this winter.

This week has witnessed one economic warning after another – with the UK looking set for higher prices at the pumps this September, even higher energy bills come October and food prices soaring ahead of Christmas.

The next damaging wave of Westminster’s cost of living tsunami is about to hit and yet all summer Andy Burnham has had his head firmly planted in the sand.

Good vibes and good social media will do nothing to ease the cost of living crisis for families – the Burnham government needs to urgently set out how they intend to put money in people’s pockets.

Andy Burnham should listen to those economic sirens that are ringing louder by the day and act to protect families ahead of this autumn and winter.

Concerns about heatwaves will soon turn to heating bills – the first test of Burnham’s listening skills will be to put right Keir Starmer’s broken promise to cut energy bills.

If Andy Burnham is actually serious about listening, he should start by living up to all the promises the Labour Party made to the public – and then rapidly broke – to get themselves into Downing Street.

People in Scotland don’t want to hear any more empty promises about ‘hope in their hearts’ – they want money in their pockets.

Burnham has endlessly boasted about confronting the big issues, but he has completely ignored the biggest issue on the horizon for families this autumn.

Andy Burnham is right to say Westminster has hoarded too much power and he is right to raise the question of where power lies in these islands, but he will never address the answer to that question by denying democracy to the Scottish…

Andy Burnham must urgently explain how he can justify this cut.

The loss of not only their jobs, but their homes too will put many of those affected by this cut into a particularly vulnerable situation through no fault of their own - it is simply unfair.

Successive Tory and Labour government’s have slashed investment in the conventional armed forces, particularly in Scotland, and chosen instead to spend billions on increasingly expensive nuclear weapons - cases like this show exactly why…

Andy Burnham must urgently set out how he can justify this at a time of increased spending on defence - or better yet, scrap this cut all together.

Nigel Farage is a dangerous chancer, and it was only ever a matter of time before one of his many scandals caught up with him.

The Scottish people deserve so much better – we need to escape the constant chaos of Westminster and escape the threat of a Farage future.