Andy Burnham: “For 40 years, power and resources have been sucked into the centre, and too many communities have felt forgotten…”

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.

We either invest in the success of our young people or pay for failure through the benefits system. We cannot afford to do both.

Let's accept there's a different view there, and then work on what we can work on together, what we can agree on.

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.