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

the treadmill of failure of GCSE English and maths.

What I’m not going to oversee is some kind of lower ambition for some kids. It’s about ambition for everybody.

This is not about my job or anybody else’s job, this is about creating jobs in every part of the country and making sure that people have got opportunity, hope, well-paid decent work, they’ve got a home they can afford to live in and…

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 of state.