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The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We'd been hammered in an election. We didn't see the scale of it coming.

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I remember going to see Billy Graham in a cinema in Glasgow, and he was down in London. I used to go and hear preachers, and then we always went to church and Sunday school. That mattered a lot to me.

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My granny would come out and stay with us in the winter, and we would listen to the reports from the coastal stations and have a discussion in the middle of Glasgow about what the weather was like in Tiree.

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I used to go to a Gaelic class on a Saturday morning, but I never felt myself that I could speak it properly.

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I've often thought having a politician for a parent must be like having a constantly embarrassing uncle.

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That's a really healthy thing - family will always protect you from yourself.

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I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.

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I didn't particularly want to go to Westminster - not that there were many seats available or chances for women to get elected. In 1987, Labour sent down 50 MPs, and only one of them was a woman.

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The job of the Scottish Labour Party is to represent working people and represent Scotland.

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The big issues, the things that scar Scotland - the least of them is whether we should have a border at Gretna Green or not.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Politician

Born: July 11th, 1957

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