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

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

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.

I've developed this routine at home. I wait for the kids to go to bed; then my wife falls asleep. Then, it's dark and quiet enough for me to work on songs.

A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.

My family, we siblings are there for each other.

Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children packing up their rooms and on parents struggling to find a temporary roof is a deep one.