:00:45. > :00:55.constitutions or even to change governments, we are in politics to
:00:55. > :00:57.
:00:57. > :01:01.change lives. For order against the full devolution of income tax?
:01:01. > :01:04.Master's local elections give Labour in Scotland somebody smile about.
:01:04. > :01:09.You might want to shrug off the constitutional question but the
:01:10. > :01:14.party under pressure -- is under pressure to come up with an
:01:14. > :01:20.alternative to independence. John LeMond 's answer is a devolution of
:01:20. > :01:25.income tax but not everyone is sold. Some MPs are said to be unsure about
:01:25. > :01:29.handing more power to the comrade at Holyrood and they hope the big idea
:01:29. > :01:35.can unite Scottish Labour, C of the Nationalist threat and bring about
:01:35. > :01:38.the kind of society the party wants to see. Ed Miliband says that Labour
:01:38. > :01:43.are neither one nation party but to show that is reality in Scotland,
:01:43. > :01:47.they need to win in places like Inverness, far from their
:01:47. > :01:51.heartlands. The party give a warm Thailand welcome to the man who
:01:51. > :01:54.would be Prime Minister after hearing an update on the referendum
:01:54. > :01:58.campaign. Alistair Darling is a man charged with leading the defence of
:01:59. > :02:05.the union. He based his argument on his experience as Chancellor during
:02:05. > :02:10.the banking crisis. We are part of a single market in the UK, tens of
:02:10. > :02:14.thousands of jobs in Scotland depend upon their firms being able to sell
:02:14. > :02:18.goods and services into the rest of the UK so we are sharing
:02:18. > :02:23.opportunities and also sharing risks. I know from my own
:02:23. > :02:27.experience, when I heard that RBS was within three hours of closing
:02:27. > :02:32.doors and switching off cash machines, I had the strength of the
:02:32. > :02:36.UK to say, we will not let that happen. I do not argue that Scotland
:02:36. > :02:41.could not go it alone, most countries can. But I think we would
:02:41. > :02:45.be heavily dependent and very exposed to North Sea oil. Nobody
:02:46. > :02:50.says the oil will run out tomorrow, we're not saying that what it does
:02:50. > :02:54.not go on forever and we know the price is volatile and if you are
:02:54. > :03:00.dependent on 20 % of the tax revenue from one source, you are very
:03:00. > :03:04.exposed. No wonder that John Swinney, in his private moments,
:03:04. > :03:08.told the Scottish government Cabinet that he was worried about the
:03:08. > :03:12.volatility of the North Sea oil price and the fact that it would
:03:12. > :03:16.ultimately decline, no wonder they have to question how much they could
:03:17. > :03:20.spend on public services and the sustainability of the state pension.
:03:20. > :03:25.The only problem was, that is what they are saying in private, in
:03:25. > :03:29.public it is different and when confronted with this, rather than
:03:29. > :03:33.saying, let us be honest about the choices we have to make, let's be
:03:33. > :03:39.honest about the reality is, if we are dependent on the oil, they
:03:39. > :03:41.cooked the books and inflated the oil price. British politics has been
:03:41. > :03:46.in a reflective mood following the death and funeral of Margaret
:03:46. > :03:52.Thatcher. Edmund band used his speech to argue it was time to move
:03:52. > :03:56.beyond Thatcherism, to a new consensus within the new economy.
:03:57. > :04:02.The former Prime Minister continues to divide opinion but Mr Miller band
:04:02. > :04:06.presented himself as a political unifier, saying his opponent were
:04:06. > :04:11.Thatcher's true successors. Let me start with the last ten days because
:04:11. > :04:16.they have been dominated by memories of Margaret Thatcher and the 1980s.
:04:17. > :04:21.I know how much pain those Conservative government caused to
:04:21. > :04:28.communities here in Scotland and right across the United Kingdom.
:04:28. > :04:34.Areas that felt angry and abandoned. Social division, the injustices of
:04:34. > :04:42.the poll tax. And the reason why the Tories were able to do this was
:04:42. > :04:48.because they had won an election. We must never allow the Tory government
:04:48. > :04:53.to do what was done in the 18 years after 1979. It was the Labour
:04:53. > :04:58.government that put a stop to that in 1987 and I have news for the SNP,
:04:58. > :05:08.it will be a Labour government putting David Cameron as a one term
:05:08. > :05:10.
:05:10. > :05:13.Conservative government, it will put an end to them in 2015 as well. The
:05:13. > :05:20.reality is this - only Labour can offer the new economic settlement
:05:20. > :05:24.that our country, Scotland and the whole of the UK, needs and that is
:05:24. > :05:28.not a new settlement which involves going back, we're not going to be
:05:28. > :05:32.taking the Gleneagles hotel back into public ownership. It might
:05:32. > :05:38.disappoint some of you to hear. We're not going back to the penal
:05:38. > :05:43.tax rates of the 1970s, we need a dynamic economy but we need new
:05:43. > :05:47.policies and a new economic settlement for new times. And that
:05:47. > :05:52.is what I want to talk about today. The difference with us compared to
:05:52. > :05:59.our opponents as we have this fundamental insight, we understand
:05:59. > :06:03.the way that countries succeed is by uniting and not by dividing. I have
:06:03. > :06:08.deep disagreements with what Lady Thatcher did to our country. But I
:06:08. > :06:13.thought it was right to show respect because you cannot reach the
:06:13. > :06:19.principle of one nation and then failed to uphold that in practice.
:06:19. > :06:24.That is who I am, that is the kind of country I want to lead, a country
:06:24. > :06:30.where everybody feels they are a part and everybody feels they can
:06:30. > :06:34.contribute, that is what one nation Labour is all about. A party of the
:06:34. > :06:38.site as well as the North, a party of the private sector and the public
:06:38. > :06:41.sector, a party of the small business owner and the person who
:06:41. > :06:47.works for the small business, a party of the entire country. Because
:06:47. > :06:57.we know that written's best days lie ahead if we unite the country and do
:06:57. > :07:00.
:07:00. > :07:03.not divide it. That is the way we must achieve. Parliament has been
:07:03. > :07:09.debating their plan to say to workers, you have to give up your
:07:09. > :07:14.employment rights if you want shares in the firm. And it has been
:07:14. > :07:19.described as a positively dreadful idea. An ill thought through attack
:07:19. > :07:24.on employment rights. Who do you think used those words go to mark it
:07:25. > :07:34.was not Len McCluskey. It was not Margaret Curran. It was not even
:07:34. > :07:43.Vince Cable. It was Michael Forsyth. These Tories, they ought to right
:07:43. > :07:48.wing even for Michael Forsyth! Can you believe it? ! You know, in some
:07:48. > :07:53.communities, there are a minority that can work under not doing so.
:07:53. > :07:57.And we should put them back to work. But you will also know this - in
:07:57. > :08:03.many communities, there is a bust majority of people who are desperate
:08:03. > :08:06.to work and what I am never going to do as the leader of the Labour Party
:08:06. > :08:11.is say to the young person in Inverness, desperately searching for
:08:11. > :08:17.a job, or the older person in Ipswich, desperately looking for
:08:17. > :08:27.employment, that somehow they are a scrounger and skiver or they are
:08:27. > :08:33.
:08:33. > :08:38.cheating the system. Alex Salmond, what about the SNP? As we plan a new
:08:38. > :08:44.economic future for the country, Alex Salmond wants to draw a line
:08:44. > :08:48.through the country. He really does stand, despite all of his rhetoric,
:08:48. > :08:55.for the old order, it is the old settlement that he is interested in,
:08:55. > :09:00.not the new one because what does he want Scotland to compete? In the
:09:00. > :09:05.race to the bottom, with corporation tax rates with the rest of the UK,
:09:05. > :09:12.it is narrow nationalism that makes cosy deals with Rupert Murdoch and a
:09:13. > :09:19.narrow nationalism that prays for Tory success because he thinks it is
:09:19. > :09:26.the only way to convince the people of Scotland they should leave the
:09:26. > :09:32.United Kingdom. Can you imagine it? ! What was your reaction to that
:09:32. > :09:37.speech? I thought it was powerful, I thought the technique that he uses
:09:37. > :09:42.of striding the stage and demonstrably steering clear of
:09:42. > :09:47.autocue is potent and it is appealing to the audience, but it
:09:47. > :09:51.has drawbacks but when he goes for the killer lines, on Alex Salmond,
:09:51. > :09:55.perhaps he slightly falls short and does not go in for the kill but it
:09:55. > :10:01.wasn't reading message, instead of addressing explicitly the issue of
:10:01. > :10:04.the constitution, he addressed obliquely arguing that the Labour
:10:04. > :10:11.case is social justice applying from Ipswich to Inverness. That is the
:10:11. > :10:17.way that Labour think they address the conundrum. Ed Miliband was
:10:17. > :10:21.giving the one nation speech with the local being, putting Scotland
:10:21. > :10:24.first behind him. If one nation is the UK, putting Scotland first
:10:24. > :10:28.clashes with that and that conundrum is addressed by Labour in making the
:10:28. > :10:31.argument that it is social justice that is the concern on both sides of
:10:32. > :10:37.the border. He clearly has a big stake in the result in the
:10:37. > :10:41.referendum? He does, it was explained to me by one of his very
:10:42. > :10:47.senior colleagues that Labour had pondered how to pitch his speech,
:10:47. > :10:50.whether to make an obvious discussion and analysis of the
:10:50. > :10:56.question but they decided on balance that the thing to do was to attempt
:10:56. > :11:00.to project Edmund abound as a winner, to make him look like a
:11:00. > :11:05.winner on the stage, capable of winning the UK general election and
:11:05. > :11:10.thereby countering the argument advanced by the SNP that Scotland is
:11:10. > :11:15.currently governed by a Conservative led government on the UK basis,
:11:15. > :11:25.which Scotland demonstrably did not vote for. They counter that argument
:11:25. > :11:28.
:11:28. > :11:31.and cut the feet from one of the key planks of that message. The future
:11:31. > :11:36.of the Armed Forces has become a key issue in the independence debate.
:11:36. > :11:42.Shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy pledged to put the services at the
:11:42. > :11:48.heart of the Labour social vision. Our country is pretty remarkable.
:11:48. > :11:52.Turning civilians into soldiers. But we are not yet good enough when the
:11:52. > :11:58.time comes at turning them back into civilians and employment is so
:11:58. > :12:03.important when it comes to that. Because we all know that all of the
:12:03. > :12:07.best ideas do not always come from inside the ministerial red box, they
:12:07. > :12:15.often, from values and instincts, so we set up this programme, signing up
:12:16. > :12:19.major employers to guarantee job interviews to unemployed veterans.
:12:19. > :12:22.The next Scottish parliament elections are not until 2016 so
:12:22. > :12:26.Labour have some time to come up with the policies they hope will put
:12:26. > :12:29.them back in power. The man who was to get his hands on the national
:12:29. > :12:33.pursestrings to urge the conference, calling for an ethical
:12:33. > :12:38.economic policy, arguing the current crisis was the result of moral as
:12:38. > :12:42.well as fiscal failure. In a world of moral relativism, one person's
:12:42. > :12:47.ethics are not somebody else's so we can agree these days that we should
:12:47. > :12:53.not be investing in tobacco or certain kinds of munitions, cluster
:12:53. > :13:03.bombs, but then we can invest in small arms and nuclear weaponry is
:13:03. > :13:06.
:13:06. > :13:11.to mark genetically modified crops cost to mark --? And it is not clear
:13:11. > :13:18.where the line is. Are you behaving in a social responsible way, is that
:13:18. > :13:22.good business in the short term and medium-term, I think it is more
:13:22. > :13:29.likely to ensure long-term success for businesses and some of the ways
:13:29. > :13:33.in which certain business leaders have behaved in the recent past.
:13:33. > :13:38.also made reference to taxation and in many respects, the prevailing
:13:38. > :13:43.consensus around the fact that taxation is almost something that
:13:43. > :13:47.companies or individuals can voluntarily comply with rather than
:13:47. > :13:51.saying there is a duty to society as a whole. When people like Warren
:13:51. > :14:00.Buffett say that is one of the dumbest ideas in the history of
:14:00. > :14:08.business, you know that potentially there is a sea change happening.
:14:08. > :14:11.Northern rock and its predecessor was owned by members, it was serving
:14:11. > :14:19.communities, mostly in the North of England, very successfully with
:14:19. > :14:23.loans and mortgages and accounts for more than one century. In 1987, it
:14:23. > :14:31.was image will oust and floated on the London stock exchange and within
:14:31. > :14:35.ten years it was collapsed, ownership, the values and ethos of
:14:35. > :14:39.an organisation, are not peripheral to the success of the business, they
:14:39. > :14:45.were central and in the case of Northern Rock, abandoning member
:14:45. > :14:49.ownership meant losing a bowl work against the soaring greed and lack
:14:49. > :14:54.of accountability that lay at the heart of the banking crisis. I do
:14:54. > :14:59.not have one business model that I promote but I take great comfort
:14:59. > :15:04.from employee partnerships like John Lewis and it is worth noting that
:15:04. > :15:08.firms which adopt that model over the traditional business model see a
:15:08. > :15:11.big increase in productivity. I don't believe there is a coincidence
:15:11. > :15:14.that social enterprises and cooperatives have done better than
:15:14. > :15:18.traditional businesses in recent years and they have proved more
:15:18. > :15:23.resilient in these times. I want to announce to you today that I do not
:15:23. > :15:27.want to wait until the next election to make a difference, the Scottish
:15:27. > :15:30.rail passenger franchise is going to tender now and we are currently
:15:30. > :15:34.subsidising that to the tune of half �1 billion and rising when all other
:15:34. > :15:38.Scottish budgets are either flatlining or falling. It is
:15:38. > :15:41.entirely within the powers under remote of the Scottish government to
:15:41. > :15:45.reshape that tendering exercise and put passengers and the communities
:15:45. > :15:50.served by the real ways at the heart of the bid. I want your support to
:15:50. > :15:53.demand that they do so. We will be launching a consultation on how we
:15:53. > :15:56.can make that happen this summer and I hope you will make your views
:15:56. > :16:05.known on running the railways in the national interest. Let's not wait
:16:05. > :16:09.until the next election, let's make a difference now. It is the job of
:16:09. > :16:14.opposition to oppose. But eventually Labour know they will have to be
:16:14. > :16:18.clear about their own commitments. Our political editor pressed the
:16:18. > :16:21.shadow Scottish Secretary on welfare. Labour has made a huge
:16:21. > :16:25.issue of the bedroom tax and Ed Miliband referred to it in his
:16:25. > :16:28.speech, and yet you are still not seeing you would scrap it.
:16:28. > :16:37.I think what I'm saying is very clear. I'm saying that the
:16:37. > :16:41.government 's welfare programme is in deep trouble. It is also
:16:41. > :16:44.pernicious in terms of what it will do to disabled people. We're not
:16:44. > :16:47.going to isolate one and say that that is the only one we will look
:16:47. > :16:52.at. We will come forward with a copper heads of alternative. And I
:16:52. > :16:56.think that is a better deal for people, rather than looking at one
:16:56. > :16:59.political campaign in one aspect of it. We need a genuine alternative
:16:59. > :17:03.because welfare matters. Not only for people who receive it but for
:17:03. > :17:07.those who contribute to it. We need to be honest with the British people
:17:07. > :17:10.and say that when we meet your questions about welfare, on whatever
:17:10. > :17:16.side of the debate you are on, we will give you a conference of
:17:16. > :17:18.answer, not just the answer on one political aspect. Debate on the
:17:19. > :17:23.future of devolution was largely confined to the bars and cafes of
:17:23. > :17:27.the Highland capital as well as the conference fringe where delegates
:17:27. > :17:31.called for a new relationship and we national government in London or
:17:32. > :17:34.Edinburgh and local communities. have the least empowered local
:17:34. > :17:40.government in the European Union. This is the only part of the
:17:40. > :17:43.European Union with local government has no say on its income. -- where
:17:43. > :17:50.the local government has no say on its income. Other people would be
:17:50. > :17:55.stunned by that because it is the norm in much of Europe. When
:17:55. > :18:01.devolution was set up in 1997, there was not a transfer of power from one
:18:01. > :18:07.building in London to another in Edinburgh. It was a genuine attempt
:18:07. > :18:11.to devolve power, to empower communities and families to have
:18:11. > :18:17.more of a say. Let me say that the Scottish Labour Party is not tied to
:18:17. > :18:20.any powers of any building. We will go through a genuine process of
:18:20. > :18:24.consultation. Consultation and discussion within our own
:18:24. > :18:31.parliamentary party and also with our membership and the wider
:18:31. > :18:34.movement. More important than that, with Scotland. We will not act just
:18:34. > :18:39.in the best interests of the Labour Party. We need to make sure that it
:18:39. > :18:42.is not an option of powers, and it is not a political fix for a
:18:42. > :18:47.referendum or something that is only acting in the interests of the
:18:47. > :18:52.Labour Party. Our interests are the best interests of Scotland. Whatever
:18:52. > :18:57.conclusion we come to in the report will be our test. Is the action that
:18:57. > :19:06.we are taking the proposals were making, in the best interest of
:19:06. > :19:16.Scotland? If they are, the will come behind. How divided labour on issue?
:19:16. > :19:17.
:19:17. > :19:23.-- how divided our labour. This has been a considerable rally. -- rammy.
:19:24. > :19:30.Four. It has the potential for Labour to resolve this. It is not
:19:30. > :19:35.just Hollywood versus Westminster. There are MPs who support this
:19:35. > :19:38.strongly. But you have MPs concerned about the way the process was
:19:38. > :19:42.announced and concerned that they work cut out. That is a reflection
:19:43. > :19:47.of the fact that they feel generally excluded. Secondly, we have concern
:19:47. > :19:51.from MPs that if the rematch of Westminster is reduced, and Branson
:19:51. > :19:58.will be a case for fewer MPs. We have had reassurances on that point
:19:58. > :20:06.from Johann Lamont. The third concern, these issues of protest,
:20:06. > :20:09.will die down, the third one is a lasting one. If you transfer income
:20:09. > :20:14.tax powers to Scotland, what happens to the Barnett formula? What happens
:20:14. > :20:20.to Scotland's money? Would public spending be stable. That is a
:20:20. > :20:24.serious concern shared among those who started as explicit critics of
:20:24. > :20:28.the plan and also those who are supporters of it. They want to know
:20:28. > :20:32.the answers. This is the start of a debate on and not the end. Was the
:20:32. > :20:42.one handled well? It wasn't, it was frankly handled badly. Labour need
:20:42. > :20:44.
:20:44. > :20:48.to get on with the task of finding the detailed answers.
:20:48. > :20:54.Jenny Marra drew attention to human trafficking and hold -- and called
:20:54. > :20:56.for action to help those being exploited for profit. Victims of
:20:56. > :21:01.trafficking are not easily identified in our communities. It is
:21:01. > :21:05.difficult for them to self identify, because of fear for
:21:06. > :21:11.themselves, their own physical safety, and the reprisals that they
:21:11. > :21:16.might feel from people holding them, perhaps under threat,
:21:17. > :21:22.withholding documents perhaps. also, and this is very frightening,
:21:22. > :21:29.for fear of reprisals on their family's back home. -- on their
:21:29. > :21:33.families back home. The law in Scotland is not strong enough to
:21:33. > :21:39.deal with this issue. Our current definition of human trafficking, it
:21:40. > :21:42.is a crime in Scots law but it is not a defined crime. The crime sits
:21:42. > :21:46.between two Acts of Parliament, and immigration act passed by the
:21:46. > :21:50.Westminster Parliament, and the other is our sexual offences act. We
:21:50. > :21:54.have brought together a bill on human trafficking that I will be
:21:54. > :22:00.introducing to the Scottish Parliament and publishing the
:22:00. > :22:06.consultation in the next few weeks. Johann Lamont began her speech with
:22:06. > :22:09.a personal pitch to the conference and to the country. As a Highlander
:22:09. > :22:15.and former schoolteacher, she presents herself above all as a
:22:15. > :22:22.politician that people can trust. I'd grew up in Glasgow but my heart
:22:22. > :22:28.is in Tyree. My family were crofters and my father was a merchant seaman.
:22:28. > :22:32.I saw the beauty of my land and felt the warmth of the community and the
:22:32. > :22:35.harshness and brutality of trying to make a living here. I had the
:22:35. > :22:40.privilege to grow up in a loving family were my mother always
:22:40. > :22:46.reminded me that what we ate and what we wore, where we lived was all
:22:46. > :22:50.the products of the sweat of my father's brow earned at sea. And
:22:50. > :22:54.I've respected that. I'd grew up in a world of respect for hard work,
:22:54. > :23:00.where people were valued. I saw the unfairness of a world which did not
:23:00. > :23:05.value work. A father who retired without a pension, whose employer
:23:05. > :23:10.cared not for him after he left, but who was in his dying days, cared for
:23:10. > :23:16.by an NHS, the Labour Party's greatest condition -- greatest
:23:16. > :23:22.creation. A reflection of our collective belief that individuals
:23:22. > :23:27.deserve better. My family did not feel hard done for -- had done two
:23:27. > :23:31.or entitled to, but first it to improve ourselves. As a child of
:23:31. > :23:36.Tyree and Anderson, I was never the generation that could expect a
:23:36. > :23:40.university education, yet I've got one, not because it was a Scottish
:23:40. > :23:46.tradition, but because Labour made that a Scottish tradition that if I
:23:46. > :23:50.worked hard enough I could achieve it. The likes of me, if we're good
:23:50. > :23:55.enough, could get there. That is the Labour tradition. As Nelson Mandela
:23:55. > :24:00.said, education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change
:24:00. > :24:04.the world. And so, friends, when we going to the next goddess election,
:24:04. > :24:09.we will have planned is not just to change educational one term, but a
:24:09. > :24:15.vision which will look forward 20 years. Because of our schools,
:24:15. > :24:18.colleges and universities, they are to be the best -- if they are to be
:24:18. > :24:22.the best in the world, we need that length of vision. We will not pay
:24:22. > :24:25.for the opportunity for some while denying opportunity for others. The
:24:25. > :24:33.savaging of the college system to fund universities has been a
:24:33. > :24:42.disgrace. -- the savaging. It has been a con for people wherever they
:24:42. > :24:49.are learning, at school, college or university. We need a Scotland which
:24:49. > :24:53.has education open to all. I want us to return to a policy of lifelong
:24:53. > :24:57.learning. Not just a matter of social justice, but an economic
:24:57. > :25:02.imperative in a fast changing world. Let others talk of an oil boom. Our
:25:02. > :25:06.greatest resource will always be our people and if we are to give people
:25:06. > :25:15.the chance to fulfil their potential, it is a second education
:25:15. > :25:22.boom that we need in Scotland. We will make Scotland a fairer, more
:25:22. > :25:26.just country. That is why we seek power. Conference, this weekend we
:25:26. > :25:31.have published an interim report of the devolution commission. Believe
:25:31. > :25:34.it is a good of work. It is radical and challenging and I'm grateful to
:25:34. > :25:40.everyone who contributed to it, whether they represent Scottish
:25:40. > :25:46.Labour in our councils or in Europe, Holyrood or Westminster. What it is
:25:46. > :25:54.the starting point of where we agree devolution is to be developed. What
:25:54. > :26:04.it is not is an attempt to appease the SNP. I'm well aware that you do
:26:04. > :26:06.
:26:06. > :26:09.not appease Lions by throwing more Christians at them. And there will
:26:09. > :26:12.not what an inch down the road towards independence. We will have
:26:12. > :26:15.plenty of time to debate it throughout the party and we will
:26:16. > :26:23.consult with all of Scotland on it. But let's do that within this
:26:23. > :26:27.context. Our debate is not power for power's sake, but it is as where
:26:27. > :26:31.power -- it is to ask where best power should lie to make the best of
:26:31. > :26:41.people's lives. Our greatest moments were not when we outfought our
:26:41. > :26:45.neighbours but when we outfought the world. Our enemy... -- out thought.
:26:45. > :26:48.Our enemy is poverty and evils that brings. Alex Salmond would have you
:26:48. > :26:53.believe that the enemy is our neighbours. He wants to have a
:26:53. > :26:58.debate with David Cameron but he wants debate me. -- he won't debate
:26:58. > :27:04.me. He wants to deceive people into thinking this is a question of
:27:04. > :27:14.Scotland versus England. It isn't. The fight is Scotland versus Alex
:27:14. > :27:14.
:27:14. > :27:19.Salmond, and it is one that Scotland is going to win. I'll make this
:27:19. > :27:25.promise to you. I will do everything in my power to restore honesty to
:27:25. > :27:30.politics. In this party, this movement, we will fight for this
:27:30. > :27:33.party -- country we love. The meter you what my job is about. It is
:27:33. > :27:37.about making sure that the party responds to the needs of Scotland.
:27:38. > :27:42.It is about fighting privilege and inequality where ever we find it. It
:27:42. > :27:48.is about fighting poverty and opening up opportunity for all. It
:27:48. > :27:58.is about creating a fairer, better, more prosperous Scotland. It is
:27:58. > :28:07.
:28:07. > :28:11.about leading Scotland and that is a job I am minded to do.
:28:11. > :28:19.A very personal speech from Johann Lamont. Exceptionally personal and
:28:19. > :28:26.passionate. About her upbringing in Glasgow, background in the islands,
:28:26. > :28:32.about her career in the philosophy of politics that was shaped by that
:28:32. > :28:35.upbringing and that career, and attempting to veer from that into
:28:35. > :28:43.the political. I thought it was an extremely warmly received speech, a
:28:43. > :28:47.good speech. Where were the drawbacks? The drawbacks, she is
:28:47. > :28:51.projecting an analysis of problems which she sees at the moment, in
:28:51. > :28:55.personal care and college education. She is not projecting solutions. Of
:28:55. > :29:01.course, her opponents can pick that apart. In terms of the conference