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Public contracts in Scotland should have a Scottish jobs guarantee written into them — we need to end the offshoring of good jobs in Scotland while our industrial base withers.

I think the generation that I want to lead in Scottish Labour is the generation that wants to win – a generation that can make Labour win again.

I tell you, it’s when you’re the person who is actually a threat to the establishment, when you want to shake things up and change the direction of the party, that’s when people come shooting.

Of course I do. I always will. We have to make sure that we pull together as a team.

The leader gets, in the end, the manifesto that they want.

I think Anas Sarwar’s shadow cabinet got it wrong because I’m not the continuity candidate.

Ministers had taken steps to protect its position under the GRA and to prevent any further unauthorised transactions involving the Lochaber businesses.

Consent for the transactions was not sought and that the government had advised GFG Alliance that consent has not been granted.

Some of the transactions undertaken by GFG Alliance entities should have been signed off by ministers under the terms of the Guarantee and Reimbursement Agreement (GRA).

I would not want to see a penny of taxpayers' money lost due to the SNP's endless inaction.

It should take a long, hard look at all of its other dealings with GFG Alliance to see whether everything else is above board and whether further mistakes on the part of the government have been made.

I have been warning about Sanjeev Gupta and GFG Alliance for years yet SNP ministers seem content to allow them to carry on regardless.

Violence against women is abhorrent, and we are working closely with partners, including Police Scotland, to tackle it.

The council and government need to get together to sort this out, and ensure Edinburgh’s flagship premises are properly managed with the interests of the city at heart.

People in Edinburgh expect the rules around building and shop ownership to be robust and above board.

Ivan McKee as the minister responsible should come clean as to why these numbers have increased and if he is doing any work to bring staffing costs under control.

They clearly still don’t have the stomach for taking the tough but necessary decisions to ensure that the civil service is delivering value for money for taxpayers.

The fact that the workforce has actually increased at a time when SNP ministers have insisted their would be reduction in staffing levels could only have happened on the nationalists’ watch.