John Healey: “It's important to Nato, it's important to Britain that we...demonstrate the sort of leadership that's required from…”

People recognise these times that are tough for everyone, and what they do expect of a government is to manage with the budgets we've got, deliver the public services they need, and that's the challenge.

My observation on the banks is that people too often see them as big, distant financial institutions, when they are hardwired into the economic fabric of this country and our future prospects.

Economic growth is my and Burnham’s number one mission in government.

It's a sign of resilience in the UK economy that some had not expected