Johann Lamont

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

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I remember going to see Billy Graham in a cinema in Glasgow, and he was down in London. I used to go and hear preachers, and then we always went to church and Sunday school. That mattered a lot to me.

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Social injustice is what puts Scotland at its greatest disadvantage, and restoring the 50p tax rate will start to fight that.

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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.

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We won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories but then let them run our economy. We will face up to the Tories, and we will beat them.

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I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

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The Scottish Labour Party should work as equal partners with the U.K. party, just as Scotland is an equal partner in the United Kingdom. Scotland has chosen home rule - not London rule.

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I didn't particularly want to go to Westminster - not that there were many seats available or chances for women to get elected. In 1987, Labour sent down 50 MPs, and only one of them was a woman.

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There is a danger of Scottish politics being between two sets of dinosaurs... the Nationalists who can't accept they were rejected by the people, and some colleagues at Westminster who think nothing has changed.

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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.

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In my mind, the CalMac ferry is linked with the joy of arrival, the sadness of departure, the loss of loved ones brought home by ferry to rest in island soil. It is friendships made and a working life begun.

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Quotes by Johann Lamont