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
Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.
The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.
The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.
We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.
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 love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.
Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.
The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?
I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.
I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.