By Nicola, Rowan & Lauren

•Johann Lamont was elected leader of the Scottish Labour Party in December 2011.

•She was born in Glasgow and became involved in politics when she was a student at Glasgow University. She joined the Labour party as a teenager.

•She became the first ever MSP for Glasgow Pollok in 1999 and was successfully re-elected in 2003, 2007 and 2011.

• New jobs and specialised training for up to 1000 teachers is going to be introduced to increase standards in English and maths across Scotland

• No tuition fees for Scottish students

• Introduce a new right to see a cancer specialist and get results within two weeks by 2015, halving the current waiting time

• Deliver free swimming lessons for Scotland’s primary school children through a new Commonwealth Swimming Fund

• They’ll do all they can to develop Dundee as a hub for high quality design to bring people to the country.

• They are going to use festivals like t in the park to bring tourism to the country.

• They want to promote the widest possible access to the arts by working to protect free admissions to galleries and museums.

• They would also like to ensure that music is central to the schools curriculum.

• Recognise the needs of local people in allocations as part of their house building programme.

• Freeze council tax for the next two years.

• They will protect frontline police jobs and police numbers, with a community policing team in your area.

• New compulsory minimum jail sentences for those carrying knives in Scotland.

• Maintain funding levels for the Climate Challenge Fund.

• Prioritise the creation of green jobs, aiming for up to 60,000 by 2015.

• Create a new Commission for Rural Scotland to report on protecting rural communities

• Ensure that Scotland’s forests remain in public ownership

• Help first time buyers to get onto the property ladder with a new First Foot scheme that will reduce the size of deposits on new properties

• Recognise the needs of local people in allocations as part of our house building programme