Anas Sarwar

So look, how a party operates, of course, that's a subject of investigation and the facts of that have to come out.

But let's look at how they functioned as a government.

It is a government that thinks secrecy, cover-up,

Never taking responsibility, always finding somebody else to blame is the correct path.

John Swinney's instinct has always been protect the party first, do what's right by Scotland second.

And I just think that kind of politics, again, is something I've got no time for.

I want to demonstrate that I will do what's right by Scotland.

I'll put Scotland first and that Scotland can do differently than what we have just now.

And I'm not going to pretend the SNP has got everything wrong in 20 years, but they've lost their way.

They're out of ideas.

They're out of energy.

And we need a new generation of leadership in Scotland.

And that's the positive offer I'll be making to Scots over the course of the next five weeks.

Has devolution overall been a success?

I think devolution has been a success and I think it is a successful concept.

I think the danger is that unless we start demonstrating the gains of leadership for this generation of the here and now,

that the debate then becomes polarized between whether it's leave the UK or shut down the parliament.

And that would be a terrible, terrible place for us to be.

So let's demonstrate that devolution can work.

And actually, let's do the next step of devolution, which is take power out of Holyrood and give it to the regions of Scotland so that different parts of the country can flourish in a similar way that regional devolution has really worked successfully in England.