Anas Sarwar: “It’s clear that lessons need to be learned, but it also proves that Reform can be beaten across the UK.”

Were there missteps? Yes, but I think Keir Starmer is always trying to act in what he thought was the best interest of the country.

Seven months into committing to a national review of maternity services, finally professor Christine McCourt has been appointed as chair. While this welcome, more urgency is needed.

I will always be proud that together. We got rid of the Tories after 14 years of misrule, that a Labour government helped end austerity, lifted half a million children out of poverty and secured shipbuilding on the Clyde for a generation.

If he emerges as the leader of the Labour Party, if he emerges as our next prime minister, I hope that same level of hope, heart and energy that he’s demonstrated in Greater Manchester, as he did in the Makerfield by-election, is something…