Scottish Parliament Election 2016: 05/04/2016 Party Election Broadcasts: Scottish Labour Party

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What do you do in your job all day?

I try to help people.

But my favourite thing, my absolute favourite thing to do is to

make sure that kids like you get the best possible chance in life.

That's my number-one priority and that's what my party stands for.

Why is there a Labour Party?

To help people. To help working people.

We want everybody in the country to have a decent job.

But if you're going to get a decent job,

you have to get a decent education, right?

So we've got to make sure we spend lots of money on schools so that

when you leave school you can get the job that you want to have.

What are you going to be when you grow up?

In charge of Doctor Who.

In charge of Doctor Who?! That's a great job!

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Will I get paid the same amount of money as Lucas when I grow up?

Well, if you were grown-up now, no.

For every pound that you'd earn, you'd only get 89 pence.

So that's unfair, that's 11 pence difference just because

he's a boy and you're a girl. So I'm going to work to change that.

I'm going to make sure that in the future, boys and girls will earn

the same amount of money for the same job that they do.

Is your job really hard?

Sometimes it's hard, but all the time it's really, really exciting.

It's an absolute privilege to do what I do,

but it's my job to make sure the government do the right thing.

And the Scottish Parliament's got lots of powers,

and more powers are coming to the Scottish Parliament, so if we want

to, we can make Scotland a fairer and better place for everyone.

What job do you think I might do when I'm older?

You could be absolutely anything that you want to be,

whether that's an engineer or a computer coder -

somebody who makes computer games - a writer, an athlete, a doctor

or a scientist.

And if you can't do any of those things, you can be a politician!

Scottish Labour is changing, and under my leadership there'll be no

doubt what the Scottish Labour Party stands for and who we stand with.

I believe in the potential of every single child in Scotland

and I want them to get on in life,

I want them to achieve that potential

and I want it to be determined by their talent, their potential

and how hard they work,

not how much their parents earn or what school they went to.

I want every single child in Scotland

to have the best possible start in life.