Yvette Cooper: “Russia’s repeated use of chemical weapons is a sickening violation of international law and a direct threat to global…”

I will face numerous challenges in the role, including getting NHS waiting lists in England down, improving relations with senior doctors and making progress on social care.

We need to take the health consequences much more seriously, so that everyone is ready when they come.

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

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…