Johann Lamont
Johann Lamont
Johann MacDougall Lamontis a Scottish politician, who was leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2011 to 2014. She served as a junior minister in the Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition Scottish Executive from 2004 until the coalition's defeat by the Scottish National Partyin 2007. She was subsequently elected deputy leader of the opposition Labour group of MSPs in 2008, and was elected to lead the Labour Party in December 2011. She announced her resignation in October 2014, and following a leadership...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 July 1957
The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.
We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.
We shall seek debate without division or rancour.
What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.
While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.
My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.
I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.
It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.
With the emergence of the Internet, it has become possible for creative and bold people with focus and determination to establish businesses in some of our remotest communities. But these will not work if they do not have reliable transport routes responding to the impatient modern customer.
We will renew our party, to rebuild our land - and we will do it by being a better Labour, real Labour, Scottish Labour.
There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.
I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.
There is a presumption made among nationalists that constitutional change is the answer to all the questions that are problematic in our communities, and my job is to talk about what is happening in the real world.
When universities are forced to recruit more and more from outwith Scotland just to balance the books, it is inevitable that doors are being slammed shut on some of our brightest talent.