Andy Burnham: “We needed to be patient. Things would get better. Just so long as Labour won in 2029.”

I am utterly determined to prove wrong the SNP leader’s prediction that I will be the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Through No 10 North, we are rewiring the state and I want to make sure regions in Scotland are fully part of this.

We obviously have close conversations with our US counterparts, and what I’m going to do is build that bridge and make sure that we’re still all working together to support Ukraine.

I am somebody who believes that unions, trade unions, definitely, and I think unions of countries are better because you face a challenging world in a more confident and stronger way.