We want the water companies to do more and we’re pressing them to do more.

By unlocking thousands of homes around well-connected transport hubs, we're helping people live closer to work, school and the services they rely on, while backing local businesses and driving growth in our communities.

A safe, secure home is the foundation of opportunity, but too many people are being priced out of the communities where they want to live and work

Pubs are part of who we are as a nation. They’re where we celebrate, grieve, argue and belong, the beating heart of so many of our communities, and it’s an outrage that weak protections have allowed too many of them to slip away without a…

It is awful to see the devastation fires have caused across the country.

We will do everything to make sure our fire services have the resources they need from us and our support to deal with the unprecedented risks being driven by this heatwave.

That’s why we’re drawing a line so that developers have to prove there’s genuinely no way to save a pub before they can even think about knocking it down, because building the homes we desperately need should never come at the cost of the…

While it's welcome that more households are being helped into a home and fewer families are living in bed and breakfast accommodation, these figures show there is still a long way to go, with record numbers stuck in temporary accommodation.

The rise of vape shops, betting shops and rogue operators have replaced the shops, services, and community spaces that people are crying out for.

It’s a lifetime of purgatory for me of doing something I know isn’t good for me - I don't want to see an explosion of vape shops.

It is not cool, it is not a good habit, and I despise the fact I have to say on your show that I’m addicted to nicotine as I started as a kid.

I don’t love vaping.

The changes we’ve made mean councils can now keep every single penny of this money to support the Prime Minister’s ambition to build more homes.

The announcement would put an end to the begging-bowl culture of the past.

Our devolution revolution is about bringing an end to the begging-bowl culture of the past, and instead making sure our local leaders have the tools they need to drive the change that communities have been crying out for.

We are on borrowed time if we don't get a move on.

I’m a straight-talking person, 1.5 million homes is a difficult target… but I’m going to keep it, I’m not going to be defeated.

1.5 million homes is a difficult target. It was when I made the target, but I'm going to keep the target, and I'm not going to be defeated.

I will be delivering in government again.

I’m not dropping it – I’m just saying it’s a really difficult challenge.

I don't think that rent freezes, rent controls, is a way forward at the moment.

That is not something that we’re looking to do because we’ve seen what’s happened in areas like Scotland. It hasn’t necessarily brought rents down.

This isn’t an excuse, but houses don’t go up in five minutes. I wish they did – it takes time.

People have underestimated me all my life. If you tell me I cannot do something I will fight like hell to get it done.