Angela Rayner: “It’s unfair, it’s un-British to do so.”

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.

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.

This needs a much deeper cultural change across Whitehall and the scale of that challenge can’t be underestimated.

No, my severance payment was given to me at the time, I had worked in government for a period of time and then I came out of government for just under a year.