I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years. Johann Lamont Read Quote
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. Johann Lamont Read Quote
The job of the Scottish Labour Party is to represent working people and represent Scotland. Johann Lamont Read Quote
The big issues, the things that scar Scotland – the least of them is whether we should have a border at Gretna Green or not. Johann Lamont Read Quote
I firmly believe that Scotland’s place is in the U.K., and I do not believe in powers for power’s sake. Johann Lamont Read Quote
My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about. Johann Lamont Read Quote
I guess it feels to me that the political argument that has been lost in my lifetime is taxation. How do you engage in that debate when people don’t trust politicians at all? It is almost impossible to start a conversation about taxation. Johann Lamont Read Quote
The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We’d been hammered in an election. We didn’t see the scale of it coming. Johann Lamont Read Quote
I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose. Johann Lamont Read Quote
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. Johann Lamont Read Quote
