Louise Haigh: “These new rules will ensure the £90 billion that is spent each year through government contracts supports British jobs…”

Every pound of taxpayer money should be spent in a way that benefits local communities — creating good jobs and giving young people the skills they need for the future.

You only had to open the papers most days to read the vicious briefing that was happening, the horrible way they would talk about our colleagues to journalists.

The idea that there wasn’t a cabal of men that were deliberately mistreating women around the government is just fanciful.

To pretend that I hadn’t told him and to brief so consistently and so viciously for quite a number of weeks after that was a deliberate attempt to knock my character down.