Lucy Powell: “So, look, the Government has committed to a review of that. It is … very much at the top of my in-tray as the secretary…”

He [Burnham] really understands the bigger, bolder measures that are needed to live up to the manifesto promises.

If we had more control over things like skills and local transportation we could better connect people to all those new job opportunities of the future.

The one-size-fits-all approach simply doesn’t suit all children. For some it’s become a straitjacket. A straitjacket that has left too many being branded a failure – again and again – instead of being able to realise their potential.

the whole of government machinery can work in service of the agenda and the vision that the Labour government is setting out under Andy Burnham