when it comes to these kind ofjobs! when you got this job as leader of the labour party in scotland, you said something that took me slightly aback when i read it. it was the "hardestjob in british politics". why? so i think when i took on the job, we were in third place in scotland. the greens were predicting they would push us into fourth place in scotland. we were 32 percentage points behind the snp, only 7% of people in scotland believed labour would win the next general election and nicola sturgeon had an approval rating of plus 58, which is extraordinary to even think about that, plus 58. and to try and persuade people that one, the labour party could survive. second, that the labour party was relevant to modern scotland and modern britain and then third, to try and persuade people that the labour party could govern again was something that people just thought, "ok, you might do the first part but could "you do the other parts?"