John Healey: “Fiscal discipline has been the bedrock of the government that I was part of for the first couple of years, as a Labour…”

I think in recent decades, and this is true in Heathrow and airports right across the UK, that they have been a big part of jobs and growth. And the case for a third runway at Heathrow has always been a case for growth.

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

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.

I’m working on different ways we can step up support for Ukraine: military, diplomatic and economic, and you know, if anybody needed any reminder of that, it’s what we see coming out of Ukraine, with [Vladimir] Putin targeting these energy…