Steve Reed: “My selected option will support devolution most effectively, by creating distinct place-based authorities that are close…”

The last thing any of us want to see is people being turfed indoors halfway through penalties. So let's show the fun police the red card, get behind England and back our pubs. This time, it really could be coming home.

I thought that Conor Lamb was the best candidate based on his priorities and his background, and I think we needed some new blood in Congress.

Trust in politics is at an all-time low. Time and again, people have voted for change, time and again change never came.

This Government is driving the most ambitious programme of local government reform in a generation, replacing the inefficient two-tier system with new unitary councils so that all parts of our country are ready for devolution.