My dad, who really had so much foresight, said that we were living at a time when we needed more representation and we didn't really have anything. He was the one that said I should go into politics.

We will transition from being the oil and gas capital of Europe to unleashing our renewable potential and becoming the net-zero capital of the world. We will show moral leadership and ensure funding for loss and damage is not just pledged but paid and I would urge other nations to join us.

I don't know anyone that suggests Israel doesn't have the right to protect itself from terror.

You cut me open, I'm about as Scottish as you come. But the truth of the matter is, I don't know whether the future for me and my wife and my three children is going to be here in Scotland or the U.K., or indeed in Europe and the West, because I have, for some time, really worried about the rise of Islamophobia.

Scotland is the country I love.

Although I studied Politics at Glasgow University, I always thought I would do political research or some other work that involved being in the background - where I was always most comfortable.