A biography for Johann Lamonthasn’t been written yet.
“I've often thought having a politician for a parent must be like having a constantly embarrassing uncle.”
“Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.”
“We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.”
“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.”
“Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.”
“The next phase is to 2016, and yes, I want to be First Minister because I believe I have the life experience, and I've got a commitment to change.”
“While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.”