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Scotland has an enormous renewable energy potential, but too often our communities are seeing the disruption without sharing in the rewards.

For me politics is about improving people’s lives: creating better jobs, strengthening public services, expanding opportunities for young people and rebuilding trust among people who feel politics has stopped listening to them.

The reality is that for six Scottish Parliament elections in a row now our party has gone backwards and that should be telling every single person who cares about what the Scottish Labour Party stands for something very important.

Let me be plain about myself. I am in this for Scotland and nowhere else. I am not building the kind of career that ends in ermine. You will never see my name on a list for the House of Lords. I want to serve the country I am from.

This leadership contest cannot become another conversation inside the Holyrood bubble, about the Holyrood bubble, for the benefit of the Holyrood bubble.

North Bridge is fully open! Huge thanks to everyone involved in the mammoth repair job to get it reopened in both directions.

With the First Ministers of Scotland, Wales and North Ireland all committed to an independent future, recognising a more prosperous future away from Westminster, there is a Celtic connection across these islands no Westminster Prime…

Through a fresh start with independence, we can take control of our energy resources and entice businesses to make Scotland their home – that’s how we build a wealthier Scotland anew.

Broken, Brexit Britain is in terminal decline and Andy Burnham is fast running into that reality, but it does not have to be that way for Scotland.

The undoubted success of Ireland is a mere glimpse into the wealth of an independent Scotland.

Labour will show them.

I want to reinvigorate the party.

I won’t let Reform UK turn back the clock.

I won’t be afraid to call it out.

That combination – real, measurable harm and no clear route to address it – is exactly the kind of gap we need to address.

What most people wanted to know was not what we thought about other political parties, but what were we doing? What were we about?

I’m not here to worry about private schools. I’m here to worry about state schools.

They have to take some responsibility for creating … a system that has left over a million young people now not in education, training or employment. The current approach has left too many behind.