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I mean, Andy Burnham said in the byelection that he wanted to see more money spent on social rent on council housebuilding. That’s exactly what we’re doing through this initial wave of funding.

What is wrong with expecting people who live in subsidised housing, paid for, subsidised, by the hard-working British taxpayer … to keep their house to a reasonable standard?

If you go back in time and look what actually happened … the people that rented council homes had to be married under a Labour, socialist government.

This is a massive backtrack by Andy Burnham, who made a clear pledge to dedicate the £39bn Affordable Homes Programme to building desperately needed council housing.

There's a case for widening the tax base through some new approaches, such as environmental taxes.

I would've been willing to resign over it.

We weren't at that point.

It wasn't a good look for him to stop being a Glasgow MSP and head to Westminster's upper chamber.

The approval was another kick in the teeth for local people who have campaigned tirelessly against it

The bank must not become another SNP vanity project where taxpayers are left to foot the bill for failure while ministers dodge responsibility.

These losses must be examined and the bank's leadership must continue to work to identify investment opportunities that will deliver for our economy and our communities.

This morning I went down to South Bank to lay flowers and pay my respects, on behalf of our whole community, to the seven people whose lives were so tragically cut short yesterday.

We have been working on a support package. We have already considered different alternatives. We are prepared,

So the idea that the United States would have a word to say in the sovereign decision of Canada to enter into a free trade agreement with another reliable trading partner, obviously wasn't something that we were prepared to consider.

Today, I’m sending an extra loving thought to all of you who have to put up with the ‘perfect imperfections’ we all walk around with every day.

If you’re going to write to me (and you’re more than welcome to), I hope you’ll use your time to talk about something more meaningful. Not my nose.

I’m perfectly fine with my body — as it is when you’re a woman approaching 50.

Oh no. I’m happy with my body — I really don’t need a male plastic surgeon to have an opinion about it!