Yvette Cooper: “Andy Burnham was an improvement on Keir Starmer.”

Our NHS is used to gearing up for these kinds of pressures in winter. But we are going to need the same level of preparation in future summers. I have told the NHS to start drawing up summer plans now in the way they have traditionally…

But I have also been clear that the NHS now needs to plan for summer pressures in the way we currently plan for winter pressures.

I actually want to build that same national consensus on how we start our kids’ lives, so that no future government of whatever party would think, you know what, it’s OK to rip up Sure Start, because actually we establish this as something…

I want to make it a personal crusade to put the cradle back at the heart of the NHS.