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Any party that wasn't up to its eyeballs in racism would sack Dempsey, but I doubt that Reform have the slightest shred of shame or concern for the people who were targeted and abused on Saturday.

There is no excuse for speaking at a far-right extremist gathering like Unite the Clans, which brought racism, intimidation and even Nazi salutes to our streets.

We must stand against the far right in all its forms – on our streets, in our media, in our politics, wherever we find them.

This will allow us to continue to build on the hard work of recent years and take Scottish Labour forward, ready to hold the SNP to account and confront the poisonous politics of Reform in Scotland.

The agreed process guarantees a fair and open contest, while ensuring we are able to progress at pace and elect a new Leader without delay.

I want to thank Anas Sarwar for his leadership and friendship.

This will be the eighth meeting between the two leaders since Trump's election for a second term, more than any other international leader. This is a great privilege, but it is also a great responsibility.

I condemn unreservedly the behaviour that was undertaken at the weekend.

We live in a democracy and people have the right to protest but the behaviour on the weekend was absolutely and completely unacceptable.

We're really disappointed.

The Scottish Government were very clear we wanted the Games to be available on free-to-air so that everyone across the UK could share in the event.

The UK Government must step in and do its part to improve Ofcom’s listed-events categories so that future Commonwealth Games can be shown live and free.

And there ought to be, I think, a real understanding that people cannot make money off the back of harm to women and children.

This is a product that has been developed without any concern for the social harms it might create. This is a product for profit.

It feels demeaning and degrading because that's what it's designed to do.

I think we’re all bearing in mind what’s recently happened to Ann Widdecombe, the most appalling murder of a former politician, and I think that gives a duty on all politicians to be careful about what they post, what they share.

There were no warnings in place about live firing training exercises. They fired the live rounds at the closest point of approach to us - and didn’t fire anything that we saw before or after.

The French warship fired 17 live rounds behind us as it was at its closest point to us. There was no warning at all. It felt like these were warning shots and our skipper told me he had never seen anything like this in years sailing in the…