My politics are wildly different from hers, but someone who has been good for women in politics, stamped her authority on European and world affairs, is Angela Merkel.

For parents - women in particular - good quality, affordable childcare is vital.

One of the attributes Glasgow is best known for all over the world is the friendliness of her people.

It would be a very serious mistake for the U.K. to vote to leave the European Union, and I think it would be democratically indefensible for Scotland, if we had voted to stay in, to face the prospect of being taken out.

As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.

I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit.