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
My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.
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.
If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.
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.
I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.
I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.
Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.
The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?
Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.
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.
My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.
Maybe I was just born to argue with men.
My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.
I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.