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
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.
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.
We shall seek debate without division or rancour.
We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.
We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.
The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.
The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.
Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.
Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.
Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.
Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.
I made a different decision to send my children to the local state school.