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Johann Lamont Biography

Johann MacDougall Lamont (/ˈdʒoʊæn læmʌnt/; born 11 July 1957) is 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 Party (SNP) in 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 election to replace her, was succeeded by Jim Murphy in December.

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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.

Country, Equality, Fighting, Overwhelming Desire, Shaped, Taught

Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.

Country, Nothing, Scotland, World

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.

Bring, Children, Deep, Passion, School

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.

Men, Play, Political, Hard, Somebody

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

God, Mother, Sight, Strong

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

Arguing, Born, Maybe, Men

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 Have Learned, Life, Men, Mistaken, Take, Things In Life

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.

Contest, Family, Jobs, My Family, Two, Working

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

Difference, Differences, Make, Making A Difference, Test, Tests

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

Ambition, Happens, Real, Talk, Together

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

Different, Stop, Together, Two

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

Ambition, Ambitions, Humility, People, Seek, Talk

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

Body, Labour, Listen, Party, Trade, Views

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

Choices, Government, Talk, Want

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

Cost, Hide, Promise, Propose

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

Challenges, Confronting, Politics, Telling, Telling The Truth

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.

Burden, Crisis, Economic, Heaviest, Unacceptable